Designers Guide to Wrapping a Vehicle in Illustrator

A complete and comprehensive guide for designing and preparing a vehicle wrap for print in Adobe Illustrator. Each chapter will guide you through the entire industry standard process from start to finish in less than 15 minutes.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:27 - Find Your Vehicle Template
00:53 - Design Your Vehicle Wrap
3:45 - Document Setup
5:20 - Prepping For Print
5:58 - Choosing Vinyl Size
7:33 - Adding Your Weed Boxes
10:18 - Adding Cut Paths
11:39 - Adding Bleed To Cut Paths
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[@MindIslandDesign]

If you would like a step by step guide on this video, check out this article here! mindislanddesign.com/how-to-wrap-a-vehicle-in-illustrator-like-a-pro/

[@NitrocideOfficial]

Good clear tutorial. was looking for that. good job.

[@edmondopowell]

Short and sweet specially for those who left the industry and later went back to it

[@katerinaberkova4510]

Thanks for the tutorial, I have one question when I export the data, should the pink areas be at the bottom or top of the design?

[@04liverydesign7]

i have a question, when for example a livery has lines which connect from the hood of the car and moves to the sides or for example the doors, as we know the 4 or 5 perspectives of the car are separated, how do you calculate how the tip of both lines will connect from both sides? until now i have been doing it with the help of wireframes in just 2D templates, but i wanna know how it is done for a real life car so i dont end with two lines that doesn't connect on the tip in both sides.

[@TheDazsmith1977]

trying to put a full image onto the side of a van but finding it impossible to attach the image

[@zombiecat4132]

Hi, what if I can’t find the outline template of the vehicle that I want ? Is there any other way to make the design ? Thank you #designersguide

[@oatmylk1971]

Find any straight side on image of the vehicle you want to use, measure the wheelbase of the vehicle if you can & scale the image in illustrator

[@zombiecat4132]

@@oatmylk1971 Thank you so much ! 🙂

[@brandonmorrant1598]

Zoom zoom zoom

[@TheDazsmith1977]

does not work for me

[@PlamenPetrovPacistyleCom]

Hi and thank you so much for the wonderful video tutorial. Could you please give us more information on the scaling because on the video I didn't understand quite well why you did the 2000% scaling on the vehicle?

[@IamTheLocalHam]

He said the template was 1/20th so he just scaled the template 20x larger so that it is the actual size of the real life vehicle.

[@imperials5507]

I’m shocked about how much bad information there is in this video

[@MindIslandDesign]

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