From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 18 3D Text Cinema 4D Lite
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Using Illustrator artwork - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 18 3D Text Cinema 4D Lite
Using Illustrator artwork
- [Voiceover] In this course, we're focusing on creating text directly inside Cinema 4D. However, that's not always going to be your work flow. Some people prefer to set their text in Adobe Illustrator. Or you may have a client who gives you a logo in Illustrator that has, in addition to text, other design elements in it. So, in this movie, we're going to show you how to prepare that logo to get you to the same point where we were with the Cinema text. The first thing you need to do with your Illustrator file is to convert everything to paths, or outlines. If you were given bitmap graphics, you need to trace these outlines in Illustrator. If you were given text, you need to create outlines from your text. After you have everything as paths, you can do a Save As to the Illustrator format and make sure you don't save it to the most recent format. To work wit Cinema 4D, you must save it as Illustrator 8. That's the only way that Cinema 4D is currently going to recognize your Illustrator…
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