Illustrator Tutorials — 3D Techniques

Learn how to easy get amazing 3D effects in Illustrator and later create Photoshop brush saving effect for later use!

Twist your words out of recognition to create cool and unusual illustrations, with these great tips from Amenth.

In this tutorial, we're going to draw a beer glass with some beer in it. We'll create the shiny curly glass with reflection, put some beer in it, add some bubbles, and finally we'll make the shadow and the reflections. Meanwhile, I hope you'll have some fun and learn some cool technics too.

VECTORTUTS has covered Illustrator's 3D effects a few times, so the basics should already be familiar to you. In this tutorial, we'll be taking those skills up a notch and discussing how Illustrator deals with transparency in 3D objects. In just a few steps you'll have created a plastic cola bottle, which is ideally suited for those of you involved in product marketing.

Illustrator has offered a range of 3D tools for some time and this tutorial aims to get you started familiarizing yourself with them. We’ll be creating a can of beans, built entirely from vectors, using the Symbols palette, the Extrude tool and Illustrator’s Image Mapping. Enjoy!

How to do a simple but great logo in 3D format, using only Illustrator and Photoshop

You will learn a lot of cool techniques in illustrator, such as: Blendtool, mesh tool, allign functions and other cool. You can use them for your own designs. Well enjoy!

Learn to create interesting 3D cylinder graphic like in the Omspace blog design.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a 3D hammer using Illustrator. Let us get started!!

Adobe Illustrator has some nifty built in features when it comes to working in three dimensions. This example gives a quick walkthrough on using such features to create a 3D rotatable globe, allowing the earth to be revolved in order to show the desired countries and continents.