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Oyster Bar: Creating a manhole cover

Oyster Bar: Creating a manhole cover

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Oyster Bar: Creating a manhole cover

What we're going to look at this week is one of the more complicated parts of the Oyster Bar. I'm going to zoom in here and get into this manhole cover right there. And there you can see that manhole cover picking up all kinds of reflections, it's quite involved. There's a few of them in here. There's a different one right down here on this, oh the Actual asphalt. And a third one up here, which is very similar to the one on the other side, but the light is all being picked up in different ways. That's what we're going to do, we're going to look at how those were created. Now for one thing, they were created in Illustrator. Illustrator made it a lot easier. So what I'm going to do, is I'm going to go into Illustrator, and show you how they would create it. Now, what I'm going to do is, I'm going to create the basic shapes. I've got a rounded rectangle tool right here. I'm going to create a little shape like so. Now, if I go like this, you'll see that it's a rounded rectangle, but by…

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