okay when i was browsing around dA i saw some vectors that looked really nice and neato but they actually vectored it and then they took the shadings and highlights and blurred them so it would make it look really smooth. im just wondering since they did that is it still "considered a vector" ??
Gradient mesh is the only thing I can think of. I am definately not an Illustrator expert, but I've fooled around with every tool in there and I've never blurred anything.
If they took it into photoshop and blurred it then it wouldn't be a vector. That might not even qualify as a vexel. Probably more of an airbrush thingy.