Or you can use the MirrorMe plugin from Astute Graphics, You may create symmetrical shapes with live mirroring:Ģ) Create one half of each symmetrical shape (flames and tiger and so on) in its position on the carpet (for the tiger you may select everything and rotate by -45 degrees (or 45 degrees if you choose the left bottom corner), then rotate everything back (in exactly the some position) afterwards by using an outer path with a stroke and adding strokes into the shapes you keep the highest possible degree of editability (rather than outlined strokes as shown in your third image), and you can use Live Paint Group if you wish different fill colours by using live mirroring you can see the full picture as you go, thereby getting there or getting closer in the first go, see how below ģ) Rotate copies of the finished shapes to the other positions.įor a simple one to two mirroring as yours, you may see the reflection live after each Anchor Point if you start out as follows (for Pen Tool with vertical reflection to the right, similar for other directions):ġ) Create the first two Anchor Points of your basic left half path Ģ) Effect>Distort&Transform>Transform>ReflectX with 1 copy and the middle right side Reference Point chosen ģ) With the Pen Tool ClickDrag (or Click) anew from the second Anchor Point and go on Ĥ) Object>Expand Appearance and Ctrl/Cmd+J to join the half paths.Ĭtrl/Cmd+Z Undo is your friend: you can just go back and redo while drawing the basic path. Here I've added a black stroke to visualize the separated parts lying on top of each otherĪlso, from the image above, is there a way to make the border stroke not show on certain sides? My other idea is to just add a stroke around the design which thickness can be easily modified and then fill in the design with separate shapes that's easier to move. What kind of mechanism ar there for this? Because of this I think I need to decide whether to create the line art in one piece like soīut that would make it harder to change stroke thickness. My main obsession is that I want it to be easy to modify so I can go in and change stroke thickness and tweak the tigers if need be. Like in this picture I'm thinking I want it separated and have it so the fire lines up on one side and on the other the border around the carpet should line up. I want the tigers to be symmetrical and then I need the fire on one side and on the other side it should just continue upwards. My main issue at the moment are the tigers in the corners and the fire. Sadly there doesn't exist a really accurate illustration of it on the web so I'm eyeballing and estimating the dimension of things.Ĭreating the vector paths is pretty straight forward and seems to be the same thing as I do in Photoshop. I'm not entirely sure how you you'd start tackling this. Now I'm pretty confident in Photoshop, but I have never used Illustrator before. What I want to achieve is the design of the carpet in Aladdin(1992) to then be used as a texture for 3D-animation. Hi! I thought I'd start a project and learn some illustrator at the same time.
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