OT - Creating NURBS Letters from ArtText3 2D graphics

 From:  amur (STEFAN)
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Hi Marco,

i understand what you are trying to say, but you missed a very important point!

The procedure you show, in your video, does not produce nicely rounded front / back
surfaces, so that the shape is looking pleasing to the eye and not like the old
boring flat standard text procedures, one finds in a NURBS or subd modeler.

Normally one would use box modeling, with a subd modeler, to archive nicely rounded
organic looking letters. What i mean with my procedure is that you can do the same
as NURBS surface, because you can not model those front / back faces (easily) in
MoI, if at all...

My procedure compared to box modeling allows a user of 3D software to do that much
much quicker than in a subd modeler and no modeling skills are required!

Professional Artists however can later retopo and tweak those NURBS surfaces in
ZBrush, to get a more even result or to add details.

Hope you understand now why to use ArtText as a starting point.

BTW. One can also import vector graphics into ArtText, when they are in
.pdf 1.2 format...

Regards
Stefan