Crazy 3D Shapes in Illustrator

CATEGORIES: Tutorials, Illustrator, Video Tutorials | Dave Cross | April 17, 2008

Just by experimenting with the Type tool and the 3D effect Revolve, you can use the alphabet to create a whole series of 3D objects.

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Visitor Comments

Wow, this is so neat! Will definitely try this out.

Thank you!

TV | May 14, 2008 16:57pm

That is friggin cool!
Off to try it for myself now!

Jimmy D | April 23, 2008 08:58am

That was cool!
Will give it a try!

Sekquiree | May 06, 2008 13:23pm

I tried it and it is AWESOME!
Why won't it let me create the same effect in a web document instead of just print. All my Effects are greyed out and won't allow me to select them.

Sharon T | May 08, 2008 11:40am

As always you guys rock, this is just too much fun.

Professor | May 09, 2008 11:33am

Ooh, revolving the #2 looks really cool, and I could see using ( or ), too. Thanks for this great tip.

gbich | May 23, 2008 08:40am

That's excellent. I started trying out the Wingdings set and you get cool shapes with that.

Then I tried it with just Arial, and the { makes a cool candle stick holder and the } makes a good shape of a pill. And when you rotate it 45 degrees it makes a bowl.

So rotating the type gives it more posibilities. With 365 degrees in a rotation there is virtually billions of shapes you can create with the keyboard and the punctuation keys.

That's an fantastic discovery.

Thanks for sharing.

Eugene Tyson | May 23, 2008 10:15am

this is really cool! thanks for sharing! the power of play!

snow | June 02, 2008 11:05am

AHHHH!!! love it! :)

Jess mess | June 19, 2008 21:46pm

This is awesome. Very funny. Will be fun to try with different crazy fonts!

Reimu | August 26, 2008 21:26pm

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