on the topic of art, so far i think one of the best in SR4 is part of emergence.
its the one where you have a girl next to a shop window or something, and the reflection is not matching up.
btw, how many of the artists that worked on earlier SR versions came from a B&W comics background?
and also, how much of the current SR art is delivered as color and then grayscaled, and/or delivered in a vector graphics format (where the computer do the finer points of the shading and curves)?
its the one where you have a girl next to a shop window or something, and the reflection is not matching up.
btw, how many of the artists that worked on earlier SR versions came from a B&W comics background?
and also, how much of the current SR art is delivered as color and then grayscaled, and/or delivered in a vector graphics format (where the computer do the finer points of the shading and curves)?
Any art with grays in it has more than likely been grayscaled. Most artists simply don't paint in black, white, and gray.
As far as vector art goes, I don't think there is much of that in SR, if at all. Some of the actual page layout borders and "Welcome to Jackpoint" pages might have vector elements in them, but I don't think there is any 100% vector art in the SR4 books.
Also, I know in at least one SR4 splatbook (can't recall which) there are a lot of art from the same artist in a particular section that you can tell was drawn with either India ink or black art marker, since the art was scanned in as a grayscale file, rather than scanned as a pure B/W, monochromatic file (you can see all the brush/penstrokes rather than it being solid black lines, line in B/W line art). The art itself isn't bad; just the way that they were scanned makes these pieces look unprofessional.
When I get a chance, I'll see if I can find the specific reference of what I'm talking about.