Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Vase.

I worked on the vase, straight fro the tutorial. I decided to go with a pretty thick stroke, I think about 20 or so pixels. I made the stroke itself a gray color. Then I went to the effects menu at the top, scrolled down to 3D, and chose "Revolve". It was interesting to see how it all worked... basically it takes your line and spins it in a circle to create what's in effect a virtual vase. I thought that it would be cool to create my own logo, so I made my initials and added that to the "symbols" menu. When creating the vase shape out of that one curved line, I selected the "map art" button and decided what symbol to put where. I chose my own, and put it on the outside face of the vase. Apparently this is easier to do if you have a thick stroke, since you can actually discern whether you are putting your symbol on the outside rather than the inside of the vase. And I noticed that a few people were having problems with the color of the vase... it's always going to be the color of the STROKE, rather than the color fill-in. Anyway. A vase...
I also applied the shading to the initials on the vase.



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