SVG style graphics with Blender

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Can you create some great looking 2D graphics in Blender? Sure you can! LightningIsMyName explains how.

LightningIsMyName wrote:

I have a tutorial about creating SVG style vector graphics inside Blender. They can’t be exported to SVG (yet) but they have the look of works which were done in Inkscape/Illustrator.

I always liked illustrations which seems a bit cartoonish and vector style. Many work I have seen with inkscape and illustrator astonished me. Since i can’t download inkscape for now, All i was left to do was to be jealous…

Recently I found several techniques to transform blender into an illustration program such as inkscape/illustrator. With special shaders and nodes I succeeded in several effects. See the image attached for this post – all of them are vectors in blender internal with no pixel based textures.

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    • http://www.cuby.co.nr Cuby

      Very cool! Thanks for sharing. I’ll have to look in to this more and give that tutorial a go, as I’d love to create some Vector images in Blender.

    • http://www.fahassani.blogspot.com Fahassani

      I need to try this Soon thanks LightningIsMyName :-)

    • banor

      sounds cool… thanks!

    • http://pw-software.com NetOperator Wibby

      Huh … this is pretty nifty. Too bad it can’t export to SVG yet, but that’s another implementation I’m sure Blender will have in the future.

    • roofoo

      Interesting idea. But I think I’ll stick with Illustrator, it’s the industry standard anyway.

    • Chris

      Just use Inkscape (free and Open source) instead and use Blender’s SVG import functionality. Works much better as the drawing of such things in Inkscape is about a hundred times easier.

      http://www.inkscape.org/

    • http://wickes.webs.com Papasmurf

      Thanks for the tutorial! I also seem to recall that SVGs can be used as a texture via a plugin, so now we can mix and match and extend!

    • http://home.deds.nl/~mp/ ysvry

      there was a good flash exporter for blender , look at that too as its easy to convert fla to svg

    • http://blog.livedoor.jp/lab1092/ manda

      cool!!

    • banor

      yeah, designing in Inkscape and importing to Blender is an excellent choice… except at least once I have had some nasty deformities (unusable ones) with my imports.

      -b
      http://minosafilms.wordpress.com/

    • random

      Hey i cant get the gradient to work to well. I dont know what i’m doing but all else this is pretty neat. thanks for the inkscape tip above replier, i’m downloading it now.

    • Witchfinder General

      Not the same, but related…

      Vectex: SVG Vector Texture Plugin for Blender

      http://www.blendernation.com/2008/03/02/vectex-svg-vector-texture-plugin-for-blender/