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Help Needed with this effect

evader

New Member
Wondering if someone could help me with how to create the effect used in "Game Time"...not really sure what it's called but I'm referring to the "chiseled" look in the word.

I thought I remembered seeing something somewhere once about it being done with the Interactive Contour Tool and I've been messing around with that for a little bit but I'm not having much luck.

I've tried searching the forum but it's hard to do when you don't really know what the effect is called...lol.

Any help would really be appreciated.

Thanks
 

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Pete Moss

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3D > Extrude and bevel > 0 rotation Bevel> complex four, move with direct select tool to get rid of extra plane.
 

TimToad

Active Member
The only problem I've encountered doing it in Illy like suggested is on really bold fonts, you can't really get to a full prismatic effect before your bezels self-intersect and overrun the edges of the letter.
 

Pete Moss

New Member
Tim called it. This effect is in Illustrator. I have not played with it other then to find it for this thread. Not sure, but I'm guessing you could copy the text, apply your effect, edit your chisel angles (similar to below), and paste the original text (without the effect) back and place it on the lowest layer.

Good question by the way. It's such a cool look. I wonder what most folks do to achieve this. I know there are some fonts out there, that have been mentioned in this site, with the chisel already built into it. After converting the font to curves, flattening and un-grouping I'd imagine it would be editable.
 

astro8

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I use Xara to design all my signage, layouts and concepts, then export to Flexi, Enroute or Illustrator for production- I've found it by far the fastest vector drawing program.
Quick and dirty example using the intuitive bevel and contour tools...
 

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TimToad

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This is the problem that I always encounter trying to use the features in Illy and Photoshop. I've rarely found a font that will produce an even, accurate, rendering of the center line convex, prismatic letter without some work involved afterwards hiding the computer's idiosyncracies and self-intersection issues.
 

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Chimuka

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[QUOTETimToad
The only problem I've encountered doing it in Illy like suggested is on really bold fonts, you can't really get to a full prismatic effect before your bezels self-intersect and overrun the edges of the letter​
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I like the plug-in called Shinycore by path-styler. This plug in works from vectors so the problem you displayed is fixed
 

TimToad

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[QUOTETimToad
The only problem I've encountered doing it in Illy like suggested is on really bold fonts, you can't really get to a full prismatic effect before your bezels self-intersect and overrun the edges of the letter​

I like the plug-in called Shinycore by path-styler. This plug in works from vectors so the problem you displayed is fixed[/QUOTE]

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Ok, so I downloaded the plugin and created this sample. While I'll admit I was able to eliminate some of the self-intersecting of the shapes and it does give you more latitude to adjust things, you can see at the intersection of the cross bar on top, it handled it exactly like the Illy and Photoshop do. And it isn't creating vector shapes that you adjust with the direct selection tool. I'll go back to the website and fully explore all the options and tools available. It certainly appears to be a good tool to add for anyone who adds effects to their text.
 

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Chimuka

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TimToad,

There is a control at the tip that is called joins. There are 3 selections. Try the far right one. After looking at the Illy rendering.it may be the same as that. For the convex points to line up perfectly in the center the strokes probably need to be the same width.
 

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