Adobe Illustrator to Cinema 4D - Logo Tutorial

Change vector artwork in Adobe Illustrator to 3D objects in Cinema 4D! This is my first tutorial on this channel so sorry if it's not perfect! I hope I can help anyone that has wanted to try this to help speed up things in Cinema 4D! Comment below if you'd like to see more tutorials like this in the future. Follow me on instagram to keep up with my recent work and photography! https://www.instagram.com/fluxededge/ Personal Website: https://www.fluxededge.com/ Help me build a new PC for faster render times! My rig is now 6 years old with a few recent upgrades, it's starting to show it's age! Thank you! https://www.paypal.me/FluxedEdge Current PC Specs: i7 2700k 3.5Ghz 24GB DDR3 Ram EVGA Geforce GTX 1070 SC Screen recorded with OBS Studio: https://obsproject.com/ Thank you for watching! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: What is up guys my name is FluxedEdge and today, I'm going to be bringing you a tutorial on how to transfer illustrator vector to cinema 4d and turn it into a 3D object. Like I did in my "Empty Streets" video that I have on my channel. So, to start off, you want to go on-to your browser. You want to search for something, you want to change into a 3D object. So for me and like in my video, I'm going to change a logo, into that I download off the internet, into the object for Cinema 4D. So, I'm going to go ahead and type in Japanese Logo, go to images. And the most important thing, when you're trying to turn and image off of the web into a vector item. Is to have an image that's very clear and has a very contrasty background from the logo like this one. Where you see that the background is actually white and the logo is back. Uhm, that's gonna turn it into a vector a lot easier than something like, uhhh, something more complex like this. You'd have to go ahead make selections and it would be a lot harder to do it. So we're going to go on with the tutorial with this specific logo. And I'm gonna go ahead and just right click this, uh and I'd just like to say, this image is 564 by 383 so it's a fairly small image. If you can get a larger image, that would be better if you can't, this will still work. It might just have a a few little changes in the actual logo from the one that you found. So I'm gonna go ahead and right-click this, save-as and then I'm going to... I'm not sure why this box is so small. But I'm going to save it here, as, logo. Now I'm gonna go into Adobe Illustrator, File, New. I'm gonna have my blank can-canvas. It doesn't matter the size. Uhm, because... uh with Illustrator, your vector can be expanded endlessly and it will not distort. Now I'm going to go into my file folder and I'm gonna drag the logo on-to the canvas. Now as you can see it's actually pretty blurry like I said. Uhm, so, in order to trace this into a vector object, you want to click on it, then go to object, image trace, make and now everything is turned into a vector. And as you can see uhm, some of the lines are slightly different than they were. It's not as crisp and clean. Uh if you want to edit that and make it more precise, you can but for the sake of this tutorial and not making it too long I'm just going to leave it as it is. So, first thing you want to do, if you realize and drag this over here. You can see that there's a back-background. Cinema 4D is just gonna read this object as a square and it's just gonna turn into a 3D object as a cube and that's not something that you'd want. So you wanna click, uh, your direct selection tool. Actually, you can do this with your regular selection tool. Just have it highlighted the whole thing. And then go to object and Expand... So, once you have this box make sure everything is checked that you can. Stroke usually isn't because there's no stroke on this. And hit OK. And now, you've separated this white background from the black, logo. So this is where you want your "direct selection tool".