Adobe Illustrator Intermediate (2023): What's New for 2023

Name: Adobe Illustrator Intermediate (2023): What's New for 2023
Author: Stephen Steinbach

Learn how to work with the new 3D options added to Adobe Illustrator 2023

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Hello, my name is Stephen Steinbach, and these lessons, I want to cover some of the new 3D modeling tools introduced recently for Adobe Illustrator 2023. To begin, I want to show you how to model this gear ship with an extrude and bevel, and then I want to also show you how to model this table with the Revolve. To begin, let's go to File, New, let's go to Workspace, Essentials Classic, Reset Essentials Classic. So we'll begin with this one here, and to do that, what I need to do is use some guides, and to do that, we need to go to View, Rulers, Show Rulers, and then what you do is left-click on the ruler and drag down a guide here, and you can drag another guide over here. Now, my colors might be a little bit different, you can change your guide colors, go to Edit, Preferences, Guides and Grids, and you can change it here. All right, so the first thing I'll do is get the Oval tool, and it's under the Rectangle tool here. So the first thing I'll do is come up to the Rectangle tool and slide down to the Ellipse tool, and then I'm going to come down here, make sure that Smart Guides is enabled, and then we'll come down here to the intersection, we'll hit the Shift and Alt, and left-click and drag. Let's make sure that's Dead Center here, right in the intersection, and then drag that up, like so. Okay, deselect that, and now we'll select another one here, and we're just going to make one gear, and we'll just Shift and Alt, or Command on the Mac, and then just make a gear. Okay, so we want to rotate this around, and we're going to rotate it around 10 times. And you do that by clicking the Rotate tool, and with this you'll hit the Alt key, left-click and drag, down to the intersect, and then let go. And then we're going to do Copy, and then how you'll know is 360, which is a circle diameter, divided by how many times you want to do that. Divided by how many gears you want, I want 10. And so that'll be 36, and then press Copy. All right, and then if you want to repeat the last action, you hit Ctrl D, and just go around like that. Okay, let's deselect that last one. Let's get one more oval here, and come down to the center again, Alt and Shift to make the gear here. Okay, so to better view this, let's select them all, and let's just pick a gray color here. Okay, now what we need to do is we need to cut some of this out here. And to do that, we'll have everything selected and click on the Shape Builder tool, and then we're going to use the Alt key to subtract the shapes in the center one there. Okay, right now I do have a black stroke, and let's leave that on to show you that. So now with this selected, if I go to Effect, 3D and Materials, Extrude and Bevel, let's see here that it gives you a black on the depth here. And you might want that, you might not, so if I come up here and turn that to off, it might be a little bit more realistic. And then let's also turn on Bevel, and for that I'm going to do maybe a step bevel, and then I'm going to bring maybe the width a little bit more, and then the height not so much. Okay, and then let's just move this off to the side here. Okay, we'll work on the materials on this in a future lesson. Okay, so the next one I want to do is the table. And to do that what I'll just use is the carver tool for simplicity, and I'm going to double click to make a straight line. So if I double click, and then double click, and see how it's wanting to turn, but now if I double click it there it won't. So there, and there might want to turn off the fill, but that's all right. So here, and then I'm going to start to just maybe go a straight line here, and I'm going to go another straight line here out to the table. Double click, double click, double click, double click, double click, and come back to the end there, hit escape. And it's going to move this over a little bit more. So now we have this outline shape and I'm going to duplicate this, because I want to make some corrections later on so I'm just going to hold the Alt key to duplicate and just have that here. All right, let's test this now so let's select this one here and let's go to effect 3D material and revolve. Now you don't see this here because I did this on the left hand side and not the right hand side. So you go to offset direction from and go to right edge. And let's just move this over here a little bit. And we can rotate it here as well to see that. And let's go to view and let's go to guides and clear guides. In the next lesson, I want to show you how to import 3D materials. Thanks for watching.

Intermediate Provider : Stephen Steinbach 6 Lessons · 27m in English

Course Description

In this course on Adobe Illustrator Intermediate 2023, you will explore how to create advanced 3D objects, lighting, and materials. You will then learn how to prepare your 3D files for export to another format, or as a standalone final product. By the end of this course, you will have the skills to create, light, and render your own 3D objects.

What You'll Learn

Create advanced 3D objects, lighting, and materials in Adobe Illustrator 2023
Transform 2D vector shapes into adjustable 3D shapes
Import and apply web-based textures provided by Adobe to your 3D shapes
Use Illustrator's integrated lighting systems to add depth and realism
Manage custom swatches
Prepare and export your 3D models to another format or as a standalone final product

Key Takeaways

Adobe Illustrator 2023 introduces the ability to create and work with 3D objects directly within the vector software.
Designers can build 2D shapes with the vector tools and modify them into adjustable 3D shapes.
Adobe provides web-based textures that can be gathered, added to a project, and applied to transformed 3D shapes.
Illustrator's integrated lighting systems can add depth and realism to a 3D project.
By the end of the course, learners can create, light, and render their own 3D objects and prepare them for export.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn in this course?

You will explore how to create advanced 3D objects, lighting, and materials in Adobe Illustrator 2023, and how to prepare your 3D files for export to another format or as a standalone final product. By the end, you will have the skills to create, light, and render your own 3D objects.

What topics do the lessons cover?

The lessons cover creating a custom 3D model, importing custom 3D material, creating custom 3D material, 3D graphics, 3D shadows, and exporting a 3D model.

What skills will I gain from this course?

This course builds skills in 3D Graphic Design, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Illustrator Certification.

What new Illustrator 2023 feature does this course focus on?

It focuses on the new ability in Illustrator 2023 to create and work with 3D objects within the vector software, including transforming 2D shapes into adjustable 3D shapes and applying web-based textures Adobe provides.