i've been playing with illustrator's recently improved 3d tools and let me tell you guys that
it's a lot of fun and it can create some interesting designs using lighting shadows
textures and more we are going to dive into the wonderful world of illustrator 3d
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you can apply these 3d effects to almost anything but to demonstrate i'm going to generate some text
for today's video this font by the way is basement grotesque and i still get daily comments asking me
about this typographic beast it is an awesome font i do admit but one cool feature with this
3d effect system is that we don't need to outline our text and the power of this will be shown later
now i'm going to apply the same color to my text as my background but you can use
any color you want to apart from full black full black won't show up any detail on your 3d objects
and the color you choose needs to be established from the start so the magic happens in this
window drop down menu under effects 3d and materials and then just click extrude and bevel
to begin with we can adjust the plane of our design it is good to start here so
you can orientate the face of your design before adding 3d effects as seen here there are various
different presets and i personally do like to use the isometric ones for a lot of my designs
the first 3d tool is the extrude which extends our 2d design into a three-dimensional world
the depth of your 3d design is controlled here
and below are sliders to adjust the orientation of your object in its new 3d world and don't
worry guys we will soon have lots of fun with materials and lighting and so on
inflate is a pretty cool option it's a lot like extrude yet we can round off and bulge or inflate
our designs the volume slider here controls how much you inflate or deflate your 3d designs
the revolve option is also pretty cool it takes your two-dimensional design and it extrudes it
around a 360 degree path this one works well for geometric shapes and it's how i made the wooden
effects that you saw at the start of the video i did that by taking a triangle and just revolving
it around a little bit but yeah let's dive deeper into the materials and the lighting effects as
these really can make a decent final design oh but a quick side note you can rotate the perspective
of your design in a 3d space right here but i often find this function quite fiddly so i never
really use it that much and before we check out the materials and lighting i forgot to mention
the bevel options here and these are just preset bevel effects that i personally don't find much
use for but they are there if you want to use them so up here next to objects you can see materials
this is really cool and i found that materials work better on actual shape objects as opposed
to text but you can also slow down your computer quite a lot depending on how powerful yours is
it's also worth taking into consideration the resolution here as that might very well play
a role in how slow your computer is again we have tons of settings to play around with and
i won't go into them all right now but it's worth trying them out for yourself and seeing how they
affect your design in real time and as you can see here with this taurus or this donut shape
applying a various effects does give a nice look illustrator seems to have upped their game within
this 3d space and let's face it it was about time i hope they do improve things from here but
we have yet more interesting things to look at in this video if you master lighting and shadow then
you can generate some really cool 3d designs after all 3d designs do depend on lighting and shadows
four settings at the top here for lighting are a good place to start
i often begin with the standard option personally so the intensity obviously controls how bright
or how dim your design is the rotation will control which direction the light is coming from
on your 3d design and the height is going to determine what sort of angle
so if you can imagine the sun on the horizon or maybe coming from directly overhead and finally
here is the softness slider and i like to crank it up to the max because i just like soft light
it is pretty cool that we have the on and off switches on this panel
you can see here now the shadows are turned on we can control how far the shadow is from the object
and then also the bounding box of the render my only one complaint with illustrator in
the new 3d tools section is the quality of the shadows it can sometimes be pretty poor actually
and i've tried raising up the document raster effect settings but that doesn't seem to help
but take a look at this design i have my text and a 3d effects applied but if i press t for
the text tool i can actually edit my text in real time and the effects are applied just like that
we can control font choice tracking kerning and leading all while the effects remain in play
i've really enjoyed experimenting with these 3d tools and i hope adobe continues to improve the
functionality and the quality and i'm sure you can have lots of fun with them too now you might know
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