Tag Archive | "3D"

How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D

Monday, October 27, 2008

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How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D

In this tutorial I will walk through the steps I used to create this illustration to bring alive the word “collide.” While you may not find yourself needing to recreate the word “collide,” I hope you will find useful the techniques I will cover: - extruding text in Cinema 4d - using displacement maps in Cinema 4d - [...]

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Computer Arts Projects: Typography Feature for Jeff Finley

Saturday, June 21, 2008

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Computer Arts Projects: Typography Feature for Jeff Finley

In addition to the feature in Advanced Photoshop this month, I was blessed with a feature in Computer Arts Projects. Issue #111 Typography to be exact. They highlighted some of my 3D typography and ornate lettering techniques. Here are some photos. You can buy this magazine at any major book store.

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Rebuild

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

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Rebuild

Some random artwork I created for a poster that we never finished. It was the worst looking poster you can imagine! Just thought I’d post this. Edit: This artwork is modified from the original poster. The “worst poster you could imagine” came from the idea that everyone in the office [...]

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Ornate Lettering Process

Thursday, November 1, 2007

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Ornate Lettering Process

I’m going to show you the process as to how I do my ornate lettering. This is a new design I did for Stone Sour that utilized this technique. Now right off the bat, this is not a step by step tutorial. It’s more of a look behind the scenes into how [...]

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Create 3D objects in Cinema 4D from vector art

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

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Create 3D objects in Cinema 4D from vector art

This is a video tutorial on taking vector art and importing it into Cinema 4D to create a 3D object that can be animated, textured, and manipulated in 3D space. In this tutorial, written by David from filmmakingcentral.com he shows you exactly how to do this. David was nice enough to allow us [...]

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