Per Arne sandvik
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This is a job for the blend tool. There’s a tutorial for it here: https://ndesign-studio.com/tutorials/abstract-background/2
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It kind of depends which version of AI you have. In newer versions, you just paste the picture into a document, go to Window > Image Trace, and check “Preview”. Then adjust the threshold until you get the effect you want.
If you can’t get the result you’re after (say, for example, that the nose gets washed out when the eyes look good or the eyes go black when the nose looks right) you’ll have to use Photoshop.
The image has to be of a reasonable quality and size, or you just won’t get the amount of detail you want.
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If you want a seamless texture to cover the main face and the bevel, you’re probably out of luck. Illustrator applies textures to one surface at a time, and the main surface and the bevel will be treated separately.
Anyway, to apply textures (vector graphics or bitmap) to a 3D object, place the desired texture into your Illustrator document. Then, drag it into the symbol palette (Window > Symbols) and click “OK” when a dialogue box pops up.
In the Extrude and bevel menu, click “Map art”. Depending on the complexity of the 3D geometry, you’ll have a few or a lot of surfaces to choose from in the top right box. Note that when you step through these, you can see the surfaces highlit in the document if previews are turned on. Apply and scale your texture.
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If you want an abrupt change, you will need two key frames right next to each other (probably one frame apart). The first key frame (1) will have the default values, the second frame (2) has the new settings. At the next clap, you will need a new key frame with the same settings as key frame 2, and then one frame later a keyframe with new settings.
I hope I was able to explain that clearly enough.
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Glad to hear it!
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This might be a really stupid way to do it, but I would attack this from the other direction.
Create a text box the size of your document and paste the text you want. Select the text box and go to Type > Area type options. Make sure width and heigh match your document size, and then add the number of columns you need to get the look you want.
Next, draw the shape you want the text to occupy. Then, draw a rectangle that covers the whole document. Select the rectangle and the shape you drew. Go to Window > Pathfider and click the button “minus back”. You will be left with the negative space of your drawing.
Keep this negative shape selected and go to Object > Text wrap > Make. This will make the shape displace the type. Finally, Select the text box and adjust the font size to your liking.
The idea is to not place the type inside a shape, but to make a shape force the type to go where you want. There’s probably a better way to do it, but it should work.
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If you use those CMYK values, it should show up as a slightly bluish-purple grey. You should probably up the K value and reduce the CMY values to produce a more predictable color.
If you want a pure grey, you only use the K value and leave the others at 0.
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Hi, Daniel, thank you for your response.
Yes, Encore won’t transcode a 5.1 AC3, unless several consequtive audio/video clips share the same timeline. If this is the case, Encore will build a new audio stream in 2.0. My computer simply doesn’t have the muscle to export full projects in one go, so I have to chop them up and reassemble them in Encore (plus, Encore loses its mind if I try to import large files).
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Not really sure hat you’re asking for, but if yuu want to make something animate, you probably want to look into a Flash authoring application. Illustrator is primarily for static graphics.
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That depends. What do you want to do with it?
I’m not all that experienced with AE, but it probably supports standards such as PNG (bitmap) and EPS (vector). Both these formats are lossless and support alpha transparency.
That’s assuming you want to use it as a static object such as a watermark. If you want to animate it in some way, you should probably generate new 3D effects in AE instead. The IE 3D functions are pretty rudimentary, and I would guess they don’t cooperate with other applications very well.
Again, not that experienced with AE, but thought I’d throw in my two cents since this forum isn’t all that active.