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Mastering the Pen Tool with “The Bezier Game”

As someone who learned to use CAD before Illustrator, I’ve always hated the pen tool. My first CAD jockey jobs required perfect tangency and precision, not these touchy-feely “handles” that provided weird parabolic arcs.

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Maybe I’d have learned to use the tool better if “The Bezier Game” had existed back then. You can click on the link to try it out yourself, or watch the introductory video below to see what it consists of:

Admittedly it’s less of a “game” and more of a tutorial, but until they can figure out how to work these exercises into “Call of Duty,” I guess this will have to do.

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