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Red truck: Creating a headlight

Red truck: Creating a headlight

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Red truck: Creating a headlight

For the next couple of weeks we're going to look at some of the techniques that went into creating this particular piece. I called it Red Truck. Now, it's been quite a few years since I did this and there's a lot of stuff that I discovered along the way. Some things are done differently now, yet, some of the old ways still kind of work. So, what I want to do this week is concentrate on this head lamp here. Now, if you get in close you see you've got all these little shapes with these little rounded corners. See, all of these little rounded corner shapes, many, many of them all over, throughout the entire piece. All these different shapes with these little rounded corners. Now, there's many of them. Do you think I spent a lot of time doing all that stuff? No. No. It's, that's the beauty of the computer is it makes things a lot easier. So, what I'm going to do is, let's go in here and create that effect. Start a whole new file right here. And, I'm going to go to 100% and I'm going to…

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