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Working with Adobe Illustrator files

Working with Adobe Illustrator files - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

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Working with Adobe Illustrator files

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- [Instructor] Some of you will be more comfortable creating splines and shapes in Adobe Illustrator. We've just jumped away from Cinema 4D for a moment to look at how we work with splines coming from Illustrator. There's some things we need to consider when we prepare Illustrator files for use in Cinema 4D, so let's take a look. The first thing you need to make sure of is that all your text is converted to outlines, and in this case, we don't have to worry about that, we can select the text, and if we go click onto it, there's no text tool appearing, this has definitely been converted to outlines. But if you haven't already done so, and say you had some text in here, for example, let's just make that a bit bigger so we can see what's going on, we'd need to convert this to outlines by coming over to Type > Create Outlines. Then we'd be able to use this type in Cinema 4D. I'm going to delete that because we don't need it. The next thing to do is to look for any guides. If I press…

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