Help, with logo spin in Xara3D

[Storm]

Im trying to make a spinning logo with this image

http://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/...ancersCS-1.gif

I dont have any programs which will allow me to make a vector shape

so all I can make is a spinning disc

http://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/...1986/Blank.gif

Can someone either cut the above img out for me and save as a file that i can copy into Xara3D

or advise me where i can download a free program which will do this for me?

Thanks

[zaphodeist]

There's a free download of Designer Pro 6 here:

http://www.xara.com/uk/products/designer/

:-)

[ODdOnLifeItself]

Also, with Designer Pro 6, you can make something like the following without the need for Xara 3D...

http://www.jamesalexander.de/Lancers.html

Peace

James

[ankhor]

You can always try my Nigerian friends
http://www.xs4all.nl/~anchhor/webtest/

[Storm]

Thanks for your help, i used xara designer and came up with these

http://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/...1986/plain.gif

http://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/...torm1986-2.gif

any suggestions to improve?

[ODdOnLifeItself]

It looks okay, but you need a higher resolution image for the logo. At those sizes, it becomes blatantly obvious.

Perhaps one of the fractal-based enlargement programs can make the lo-res image into med-res...

Good luck!

James

[simsmj]

One good way to improve the result is an extension of drawing around the overall shape, by drawing each of the other shapes within the image, too, and import them into Xara3d, thus completely rebuilding the image in vector format. Each shape can be given its own colour within Xara3D, thus doesn't need to have a bitmap painted onto it. The new image will then be clean and pixel-free at any resolution, and has the added benefit of being visually more interesting, too. Each of the vector elements in the new image can be given different extrusions and bevels, and the lighting can be arranged to catch the edges of the different shapes as the whole thing spins.

Mike