3D art from Design and Carve - 1

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3D art from Design and Carve - 1

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I have the Design and Carve 1 collection. Recently I used components from the collection to create the scene attached. When I was working on the scene I found it very convenient to open another instance of Aspire and open the "All Animals" file. With this file open I was able to easily decide which component I wanted. Then I could copy and past the component into my scene.
Now I am wondering if I shouldn't have used the larger components from the collection. Did I loose some resolution by working with the smaller models?


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nice job.
please post the result when you carve this.
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Vector art size does not matter. You can scale them to any size you need without destroying the quality as happens with bitmaps. Dale
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Thanks Dale,

I know that vectors do not get distorted the same as bitmaps when they are enlarged but the 3D components are not vectors. Also I am questioning my process because in the Aspire tutorials it is recommended to create models as large as practical for the application. They say it is not best practice to create a small component and then enlarge it. I'm questioning how the models in the Design and Carve series respond to the way I used them.

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