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Converting mesh points from cusp to smooth

Converting mesh points from cusp to smooth - Illustrator Tutorial

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Converting mesh points from cusp to smooth

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- [Narrator] In this movie, we're going to take our simplified path and we're going to add a bunch of rows and columns to it. And along the way, I'll show you how to take cusp mesh points, which sometimes occur when you're creating complicated meshes and turn them into more organic, smooth points. All right. So with this pan selected, I'll go ahead and switch to my mesh tool, which of course you can get by pressing the U key, at least by now I've said that enough times it doesn't really make any sense. And now I'll go ahead and zoom in on this right headlight. And I'm going to click just above this bottom, right anchor point, right at this location there to add a row. Now, the interesting thing about this row is it almost looks like a duplicate of the bottom segments and that's because it's trying to match the contour of that segment. And so what you need to do is switch to the delete anchor point tool, which you can…

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