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Extruding and beveling the spline

Extruding and beveling the spline - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 17 Video Walls in Cinema 4D Lite

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Extruding and beveling the spline

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- In the previous movie we used our Spline tool to create a rounded rectangle, but it's not very interesting as a 3-D model. It's just an abstract path in space. What we want to do is add some depth or dimension based on this Spline. To do that, we're going to use the Extrude tool. I'm going to use the Generators Icon, it's just to the right of Spline. You could also use Create, Generators. I'm going to click and hold on the icon, move over and select Extrude. That says, take my shape and pull it out in space to give it some thickness. Initially, it exists as a separate object in the Object Manager. Extrude and Rectangle are on the same level so they're not interacting, but if I take my Rectangle by clicking on it, and drag it on top of the Extrude Object, it will make Rectangle a child of Extrude. And by doing so, now the rectangle will be extruded into space. If you want to see this from a few different perspectives, I'm going to click on the Quick View switch in the upper right…

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