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Published: 2007-12-10 05:51:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 1552; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 63
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This was a happy accident. As usual I have about 10 ideas in my head and then play with them until something clicks. Playing with the 3D tool and symbol mapping I came up with a couple fun designs and its all 100 percent vector!The can was a pretty straightforward 3D revolve with a custom symbol I made mapped to the outside. The water drops are from an old tutorial I wrote a while back.
The bottle presented a lot of problems. I had to map separate symbols to the cap, top and label. I then selected invisible geometry so I could lay it over a more transparent copy of the bottle.
This created a huge file that was on the brink of crashing. Illustrator isn't a 3D program but sometimes with a little effort you can get some decent effects out of it.
I might post the source file if anyone wants to use it to learn how it's put together.
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ok... few things i think need work?
the bottle to the right
the cap doesnt look real like the rest of the bottle
then that gray under it thats a shine?
its to dark? or is that the color of the bottle?
also i think the bottom of the bottle should be more flat it looks like it would tip over if you had it on a table?
the can is really great realistic... except for a few water bubbles stand out to much should be more clear? or smaller?
hope you dont mind me saying all this..
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I don't mind at all! My son said the same thing! Your comments are spot on. The cap does look flat with no shading. I think its a limitation of the 3D lighting in the Ai 3D tool. If I got the light on the cap looking right, the bottle looked like crap. I might be able to correct the cap with a gradient symbol but I think the gradients get rasterized in the 3D process. This started out as a 3D can tutorial and then I decided to add that confounded bottle. I actually had more fun creating the labels than the can and bottle...LOL
I like the criticism if it's constructive because that is how you learn.
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just make the cap separate in another layer and drag it on so it works.. or are you trying to get everything in the 3d tool thing?
ps did you make your own water drops or is that a brush?
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I was trying to do this all with the 3D tool more as a demo to show what can be done with Ai's 3D tool. I could probably get a better effect if I did a separate cap instead of trying to include it in the same bottle piece. The waterdrops are the blend waterdrops I did way back in my waterdrop tutorial. They were kind of an afterthought just to just me something else to try. This was a play exercise and something to keep me occupied while I scheme my next grand art piece.
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water drop tut you did?/ where when gimmy linkage?
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It's probably hard to find since it's in my tutorials folder
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Your work certainly payed off! The background really completes this. Don't change it, no matter what anyone says.
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Thank you! I agonized over the background. I can't take credit for the pattern since it's a stock Ai pattern but it's about the 10th design I tried. It sucks when you put a bunch of work into a piece of art and then ruin it with a lousy background...
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