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The 3D Revolve settings - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
The 3D Revolve settings
In this exercise I'll be explaining how to use the various settings inside the 3D revolve options dialog box. I'm still working away inside Half an apple.ai, which is found inside the 29_3D folder, and I've managed to take that selected path outline, which is the Half an Apple itself, and revolve it around a vertical axis in order to create a complete Apple form. Now it doesn't really have that much definition at this particular angle, but we can go ahead and switch that around. I notice that we've got these color- coded controls here, which allow you to spin the object in 3D space. So currently, for example, even though we're revolving the Path outlined around a Vertical axis, we've gone ahead and rotated that Vertical axis in 3D space, so that the Apple can spin back and forth, and you do that using these various controls right here. Now, rather than calling these the XYZ controls, which is a little bit misleading, because they are not really listed in the conventional order…
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Just another dynamic effect1m 10s
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Introducing the 3D Revolve effect5m 1s
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The 3D Revolve settings7m 24s
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Fixing 3D rendering problems6m 32s
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Establishing symbols for 3D art6m 50s
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Mapping symbols onto 3D surfaces6m 14s
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Adjusting shading and light6m 25s
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Toning down 3D art in Photoshop5m 43s
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Adding a photographic texture7m 36s
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Converting from Illustrator paths to Photoshop masks4m 50s
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Making 3D droplets in Photoshop5m 58s
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Unifying textures with Smart Filters5m 48s
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Creating 3D type with Extrude & Bevel6m 44s
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Coloring and correcting extruded edges9m 14s
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