Spot the difference

Can you spot the differences between this rendering and the practice run shown in slide two? They're pretty minor.

Of her style, Weinberg says she likes to "make work that either I'm using traditional material or it looks like I am."

"I'd say the biggest con with the software is that you have to sit at a computer and stare at a monitor all day to do it," she says. "But besides that, it's amazing. I love Photoshop and Illustrator and AfterEffects. They're superpowerful tools, and they're becoming very integrated with one another, so you can really seamlessly move around the three of them. And then a lot of the things you can get done look as if you had done them by hand. I mean, I'm still better at using a pen if I need to draw something detailed, but I'm trying to use special brushes in Photoshop and the Wacom tablet to not have to use a pen anymore when I want to do digital things."

(For a pictorial overview of the tournament, see our related gallery, "Digital designers duke it out at Cut&Paste." And you can check out our introduction here.)