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Creating a perspective column - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Creating a perspective column
Now as you know much of the engineering that's associated with Illustrator CS5 happened in India and that holds true for everything about the Perspective Grid tool. So it's perhaps fitting that we end this chapter with this incredible rendering of the Taj Mahal which has to be the most impressive and ambitious thing I've seen done with this tool. It was created by this fellow named Anil, who is a member of the Illustrator Development Team. He has kindly offered for me to allow you to take a look at this file and play with it to your heart's content. Much of it was created using perspective grid and much of it was hand-created. In other words, designed with the help of the Pen tool and the White Arrow tool and all that jazz. Now what I am going to do, I am not going to show you how to create this entire thing. I'm just going to give you a sense of how this forward minaret was created. So if you scroll down the layers list here, you will see that most of the layers are locked and you…
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Perspective is all about real life1m 44s
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Assembling an isometric projection8m 5s
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Introducing Illustrator's Perspective Grid6m 8s
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Drawing a basic perspective cube8m 1s
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One-point, two-point, and three-point perspective8m 25s
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Creating automatically scaling box labels4m 41s
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Setting up a Perspective Grid6m 45s
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Perspective Grid tips and tricks6m 39s
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Drawing and editing a perspective shape5m 20s
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Shifting between planes on the fly5m 24s
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Creating a freeform shape in perspective7m 8s
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Working with perspective symbols8m 57s
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Matching perspective with the Shear tool2m 50s
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Rendering an off-plane path in perspective5m 7s
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Replicating symbols in perspective8m 12s
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Mass-modifying perspective instances2m 56s
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Adding and editing perspective text5m 37s
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Duplicating perpendicular shapes7m 17s
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Adjusting multiple shapes on a single plane4m 48s
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Creating a perspective column9m 23s
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Duplicating a series of perspective paths3m 20s
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