Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video Assigning and editing a 3D Revolve effect, part of Illustrator CS6 One-on-One: Mastery.
In this movie, we'll explore a few more things you might want to know about the …3D Revolve Effect. And over the course of this movie and the …next one, we'll convert these two circles and this three, into this 3D three ball. …Go ahead and switch over to the starter graphic here, and I'm going to turn off …these two objects here inside the Layers panel, so that just the red circle is …available to me. And then I'll press the A key to switch …to the white arrow tool, and I'll go ahead and marquee this right hand point …here, and I'll press the Backspace key, or the Delete key on the Mac, to get rid …of it. Now what you want to do is zoom out a …click, just to give yourself a little more room here.…
And then go up to the Effect menu, choose 3D, and choose Revolve. …And if you start things off by turning on thePpreview checkbox, you'll see that …things are revolving in a wrong direction. …In other words, Illustrator is revolving around this left-hand edge, and thereby …creating a cylinder. And so what you want to do is change the …
Author
Deke McClelland
Released
4/30/2013- Setting up angular construction guides
- Kerning and clipping hand-drawn type
- Creating and naming symbols
- Using symbols to simulate master pages
- Creating a gradient mesh
- Using gradients to cast shadows
- Fading artwork with a gradient opacity mask
- Warping and distorting artwork with Liquify and Envelope
- Assembling a seamless pattern brush
- Creating charts and pictographs
- Working in 3D space
Skill Level Advanced
Duration
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Q: In the "Assigning colors to mesh points" lesson, I cannot pick up the color of the visible tracing/photograph layer with the Eyedropper tool. What am I missing?
A: Make sure the template file is embedded in your file, not just linked, and try to sample the color again.
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33. Using Smart Guides
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Welcome to One-on-One2m 2s
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34. Working with Symbols
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Creating and naming symbols6m 42s
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Introducing 9-slice scaling4m 31s
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35. Gradient Mesh
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Creating a gradient mesh4m 23s
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36. Opacity Masks
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Introducing opacity masks6m 24s
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37. Liquify and Envelope
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Introducing the Warp tool7m 50s
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38. Pattern Brushes
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39. Charts and Pictographs
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40. 3D Effects
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Conclusion
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See ya52s
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