As long as it was made in Illustrator, your post may spring up discussion or inspiration to another user. Most design subs don't allow critique and "new logo" posts, but we do. This community is meant to strive in kindness and helping others learn and grow. Give by helping others learn and improve their skills, critique and receive critique on the latest user designs, or simply sit back and enjoy casual discussion Illustrator related! This group is for general discussion, showing off your designs, questions, tricks, techniques, troubleshooting and so forth. This is the hub for all things Adobe Illustrator. This is portrayed by the example below where my values for rotation are 0,25 / -0,25 / 0 but they all show up as 0.🎨🖌️ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR ON DISCORD THE SIDEBAR Although Illustrator rounds them up, they are still in effect visually. To avoid as much distortion as possible, I've found while answering your question that it's possible to enter decimal values in the rotations. To add to this answer after the comments below:
You want your letter to still look flat so put all the rotation settings to 0 and only slightly tweak the ones that will determine where the extrusion pops out.The best part to this method is that everything stays editable and there aren't too many extra steps. Sorry for the French text but everything is in the same place so you should be able to figure it out. Here's my take using the Bevel and Extrude tool (Effect > 3D > Bevel and Extrude) Use the pen tool to neaten up any edges that need it (receding straight lines will take on a stepped appearance), and place the copy of the original back on top to complete it. Create a copy of the top most (your original), select all of the objects from the blend and use the pathfinder tool to unite them into one object.With the newly blended object selected, go to 'Object' - 'Blend' - 'Expand' and you should now be able select each of the individual steps specified in step 5.With both objects still selected, click 'Object' - 'Blend' - 'Make', and you should be presented with your blended object.
Go to 'Object' - 'Blend' - 'Blend Options' and here select the type of blend as 'Specified Steps', enter a number in the input field (I usually use the same highest number as I used in the move function in step 3) and the alignment (which might require you to complete the steps and then undo as it is highly dependent on the object you are working with), and click 'Ok'.Right click on the copied object and send it backward.Set the position of the shadow (preview is always a good option to select here) and, instead of clicking 'OK', click 'Copy'.Right click on the object and go to 'transform' - 'move'.Create the object you wish to add the effect to.
However in some cases, it can be much, much, faster and easier to simply draw tangent shapes depending upon the base artwork.Ī similar solution can be arrived at using the 'blend' function, the benefit of this however, is the shadow part is also a vector object that can be changed all you want. I use the Appearance panel technique most often. Since each copy is moved 1pt left and down, if you want a 50pt shadow enter 50 copies. The depth of the block shadow will depend upon the copies. Then used Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform to move the black fill 1pt left and 1pt down. I've moved the black fill behind the contents of the object in the Appearance Panel. You simply add a fill in the appearance panel, then use Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform to move the fill away from the original object. Trying to do this with the 3D effect will simply be a lesson in frustration.Īnother option is to use offset fills and stack them to create the appearance of the block shadow: When the red shapes are filled with black it gives the appearance of a block shadow as in your example. In the example below the white S0 is the front object, the black So is the base for the shadow then the red shapes are all manually drawn tangent shapes. Then manually add tangent objects to give the appearance of the shadow. What you can do to achieve this appearance in Illustrator is to set the front object, then copy it and offset it for the base of the shadow. In order for any extrusion to show, using Illustrator's 3D effect, you must rotate the object. Illustrator's 3D Extrude is pretty rudimentary and will never allow a flat front face with an extrusion. You can't really achieve that appearance in Illustrator using 3D effects.
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