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Ahuja drew a few doors and windows using the Rounded Rectangle tool. After
creating one door panel or side window, he duplicated it by holding Option-Shift/Alt-
Shift while he dragged it to the desired location, using
-D/Ctrl-D to transform
again if needed. For each door or window he copied and used Paste in Front,
converted this copy to a gradient mesh, and reduced the opacity of mesh points by
clicking on
Opacit
y in the Control panel.
4 The finishing touches.
Ahuja created the most complex elements (like the logo and
text) separately, then attached them to the perspective grid using the Perspective Se-
lection tool. To create the bus shadow, Ahuja first selected the ground plane and
drew a rectangle on the plane using the Rectangle tool choosing Effect> Blur> Gauss-
ian Blur. He created the building side by drawing a series of filled and stroked rec-
tangles in the perspective grid.
(Left) Building one door panel by layering versions (shown along-
side one another for clarity); (right) after
creating one of each door panel and window
type, duplicating them within the Perspective
Grid tool to create the others
4
Creating the bus logo separately before attaching it to the perspec-
tive grid
