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Creating street lines

Creating street lines

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Creating street lines

So the next thing we're going to talk about is the actual traffic lines. The main lines and these little symbols of bicycle paths and so on, that we see on the street below. Now the actual asphalt texture, I did that once before for my Times Square series. If you refer to that series you'll see where that particular movie will be that will explain how this asphalt texure was created. But right now we're going to concentrate on these lines right here especially this symbol. Now it was easier to do that kind of a thing in Illustrator. So here in Ilustrator we see that there's the symbol. What I did is, this is a Google Street View or, screen capture of what that symbol looks like. It's a bike, right there and there's some street lines. You can see how broken up they are. See cause again, cars going over them constantly and so on, will have an effect on it. So, I created these paths right here in Illustrator. What I'm going to do is go ahead and select them. And I copied them right in…

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