Export to Illustrator?

[jfranzen]

Hello. I'm the Systems Admin for South Park. We've just spent the last 3 months converting all our assets from Poweranimator to Maya. We're going to begin production soon using Maya for the first time. However, we'd like to take all our Maya assets and export them to Adobe Illustrator for our storyboard department to use. I've been searching high and low, and while I've found a few solutions for importing AI format files into Maya, I can find no way of getting curve data out of Maya and back into AI format. Does anyone have or know of a plugin to do this? Thank you.

J. J. Franzen

[jtk77]

have you tried exporting as a DXF and then opening it in Illustror?
it should give you some sort of curve I think....
in maya that needs to be turned on ..the DXF export , in order to get the option .

But if you wait a little bit ..or contact David Gould at
http://www.davidgould.com/http://www.davidgould.com/
he is creating an Illustrator , 2d ..,vector, flash exprter /renderer for maya based on his ILLUSTRATE! for max . it should be out soon but perhaps he can send you an early beta ....
I think a compnay called ANIMO has an INKWORKS plugin that will do similar , contact a reseller on that I don;t have the details.

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[jfranzen]

Thank you for the prompt reply. I've sent a message to Mr. Gould. Hopefully we'll be able to work something out. As far as Inkworks goes, it doesn't seem to support any other formats then Animo's. Thanks for the info though.

J^2