From the course: Cinema 4D R19 Essential Training: Motion Graphics
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Import and clean up Illustrator files - CINEMA 4D Tutorial
From the course: Cinema 4D R19 Essential Training: Motion Graphics
Import and clean up Illustrator files
- [Instructor] In the previous movie, we prepared illustrated artwork so that we could import it into Cinema 4D. So let's begin by importing the artwork. We can come over here and choose file, merge. We can also come over to here and choose merge objects or command shift O. So we'll just click here, and we'll select the Illustrator 8 file that we created, and choose open. The Illustrator import dialogue opens up, and we can just leave this at the default. I'll click okay, and there it is in the center of our world. So we'll just rename this to logo, and then I'll press on here on the plus and 12 down, and we can see all the different splines that make up this logo. So if we look through them, we can see each one represents a letter, and what we can do is group these now, so I will take the first three and press alt G and make this null. I'll rename it to the, and grab the next lot. Alt G, double click, Landon. The next one's going to be Hotel. Alt G. And then these three, we've got…
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What are splines?5m
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Working with parametric spline primitives6m 52s
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Creating and manipulating splines10m 4s
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Build complex shapes with spline masks7m 31s
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Creating geometry with splines7m 29s
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Working with Adobe Illustrator files2m 46s
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Import and clean up Illustrator files1m 33s
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Extrude to add depth and detail4m 1s
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