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Creating complex geometrics

Creating complex geometrics - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating complex geometrics

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- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics laboratory. Saul Bass set design is thinking made visual and when approaching complex shapes, it works best to deduce them down into simpler shapes in order to make creating them easier. So let me show you an example of how this works. Now we were working on, and when I say we, me and my daughter, Savannah, she works with me, we were working on some illustrations, some simple flat-based illustrations like the ones seen in here, and it was going to be used in the effort of animation for a lumber company and their fabricated product. Now part of the story board we were given by the agency, asked us to have a motif as shown here and one of the elements they had was create a saw blade and then we'll animate it to look like it's ripping through a log, creating the base product that they use in their fabrication. Now, Savannah came back to me and said, "How do you create a saw blade?" It been quite a while since I done that and I said…

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