Version: Illustrator Beta 30.0.21
OS: Mac OS 12.6.8
Expected result: Illustration would be rendered at differing angles
Actual result: Illustration would not render until female anatomy was suppressed.
I generated a stylized cartoon figure of a female centaur and tried to use Turntable. Illustrator refused to generate the images apparently because my figure had a noticable bust. I changed the body from skin toned to blue and it continued to refuse to do the Turntable render until I removed the lines suggesting that there was three-dimensional volume to the bust. As a woman who uses Illustrator to design garments for a considerable range of female-presenting garments, I find it extremely problematic that this feature is censoring female-presenting bodies for having ordinary female anatomical features.
I am uploading the image variations that I went through to make the image meet these arbitrary standards of "modesty". Needless to say, if womens' bodies cannot be represented accurately, the tool will lose a great deal of utility.
Ironically, once the figure no longer had a prominent bust, Illustrator did a remarkably good job of rendering the horse-parts and keeping track of the position of the four legs and tail. This demonstrated that it was not a complexity issue, but an arbitrary moral judgement.
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