Christmas Cake

[Rik]

Did this for a friend.
Thought it was worth posting, as it's still Christmas day, here.

[gwpriester]

Nice. How'd you do the spherical distortion?

[wizard509]

Looks great Rik.

[Boy]

It looks like a Christmas bomb, not a cake! Very nice though, Rik!

[Rik]

Nice. How'd you do the spherical distortion?

I normally draw the distorted parts as a drawing, if you know what I mean?!

But, this time, I drew the star shaped parts and then used the Mould Tool and Default Envelope, and then rotated until it looked right.

[gwpriester]

I thought maybe you had used one of my favorite techniques http://www.xaraxone.com/webxealot/wo...book%205.html#

[guyke]

Gary, I tried the tutorial, but I run into a problem - when I move one of the red squares of the Bezier handles, the opposite one (on the smae control point) moves at the same time, such that the two handles remain in a straight line instead of an angle. What did I miss ?

[gwpriester]

Hi Guy. I am not sure what his happening. Are you editing with the Mould Tool?

[guyke]

Hi Gary, I'm not sure what happened either. This morning I started all over again and it did work as it should.
Thanks.