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RIDDLE & JOLY
Mic Riddle & Dave Joly
Illustrator, Cinema 4D, & After Effects
Still working on their “Trick or Treat” movie, Mic Riddle and Dave Joly created the 3D
scenes for the animation. Again, they often began inside Illustrator. Most 3D
programs are able to import Illustrator paths and use them as the start for creating
an extruded or lathed object, such as the doorway and clock shown here, both of
which have dimension. It's these surfaces that, once lit in Cinema 4D or another 3D
application, cast and receive shadows that convince us the objects are no longer
flat illustrations. And just as they created a layer for each 2D part they intended to
animate in Flash, they drew each “object” on its own layer that would be extruded in
Cinema 4D, making extensive use of compound paths to represent both a solid
dimensional surface and a hole for windows, or the cavity for a clock's pendulum.
