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Illustrator preparation

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Illustrator preparation

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- [Instructor] Now we have a clear plan of how we're going to proceed with this project. Let's get started by checking out our Project Settings, and then we'll import our vector artwork in C4D. So, here we have the Project Settings. Command + D if you can't see them. And we are going to be working at 30 frames per second. And, for the most part, for the moment now just the default settings that we have right here are going to be just fine. To bring the Illustrator artwork into the current C4D scene, we need to merge it. And Merge Objects is where you'll do that. So, you can choose up here File, Merge Objects, or Command + Shift + O. And you can also come over to here and just choose File, Merge. The Illustrator file must be saved in Illustrator 8 format in order to import it. And there's also some other things we need to consider when we prepare our Illustrator artwork for use in Cinema 4D. So I want to do that first. So we're going to hop over to Illustrator and take a look. So here…

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