Now that we’ve created a simple relief and modified it a couple different ways it is time to get a little fancier. Let’s start with a chamfered border on our fish plaque.
We started with the very same vectors of course. The first step is to create a vector outline. The border will take a bit more real estate and we don’t want to crowd the fish.
But I waned more. The fish really came alive yesterday when we domed the top of our relief. To dome it only inside the center oval I selected the base relief and then the modifying vector. This would dome the center portion of the oval only. Once again as I clicked the apply button nothing seemed to happen in the top view.
But when I rendered the piece it was starting to look pretty special.
The last step was to select the base relief, and the fish vector and modify the relief once more by ADDING TO it. I used a value of 0.3″. The result was just what I was expecting.
In the front view I can see how much it domes up and how high my relief of the fish sticks up off the surface. I was happy with the result.
