Adobe Illustrator to Autodesk Maya
The Maya 3D animation instructor has no idea how happy he is making me right now. I'm an expert in Adobe Illustrator, which creates vector art in 2D. I have often wished that I could take my beautiful, precise, intricate Illustrator drawings into 3D software to lathe or extrude them into 3D-- or even connect two curves to turn them into the opposite edges of a curved 3D surface. He's showing the class how to import from Illustrator right now!
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ext_243991 on May. 12, 2010 4:41 PM
So you could actually make a 3d model of your U-Con cover from 2009? That would be tre-cool!
ext_21159 on May. 14, 2010 3:22 PM
The easiest way to do that would be to make an icosahedron and wrap an image on it. The very next class taught me how to do that! However, if I used the technique I told you about in this blog post, it would be even cooler. I could take the Adobe Illustrator curves of the continental edges, and extrude them up off of the surface of the icosahedron!
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