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Expressing surface contours with a mesh

Expressing surface contours with a mesh - Illustrator Tutorial

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Expressing surface contours with a mesh

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- [Narrator] In this movie I'll show you at least one way to express surface contours using a gradient mesh. So for example, we're going to be lighting up these fenders, both along the rear tire and the front one. And we're going to add some highlights on the top of the doors and a highlight down here near the bottom of the door as well. Now, I still have open that scary Photoshop diagram, which is showing how each and every one of the mesh points is colored. The most important thing at this point, though, is to note that we have a bunch of columns that we have to add. And in all, including the first and last column line, we've got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. And so far, we have two. So you've got to add eight more. All right, I'll go ahead and switch over to illustrator, and notice that my meshes layer is twirled open. I'll go ahead and scroll down the list here. And I will target this object right here. But for…

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