Creating 3D Logos in CINEMA 4D
Pluralsight
Course Summary
Illustrated logos can be found everywhere and logos with characters can be especially appealing. Software required: CINEMA 4D 11.5.
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Course Description
Illustrated logos can be found everywhere and logos with characters can be especially appealing. Translating those logos into 3D can add a great deal of flexibility to their use and really make them stand out. In this course, we'll take the Woody's BBQ logo, created in our Integrating a Character with a Logo in Illustrator training and add some depth using CINEMA 4D. We'll start this CINEMA 4D tutorial by using as much of our original logo as possible to begin the rebuilding process. We'll use curves from Illustrator as a basis for extruding sections of geometry. We'll explore ways to combine splines to create cutouts for some of the letters and how we can begin to organize and layer our geometry. We'll also use a little bit of ZBrush to go through the process of posing Woody, the beaver from our Creating Cartoon Characters training. We'll put everything together and use CINEMA 4D's Sketch and Toon rendering to create a nice cartoony final render. Once done, you'll not only have a finished 3D logo, but you'll be able to create and translate your own logos into 3D. Software required: CINEMA 4D 11.5.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction and Project Overview- 1m 15s
—Introduction and Project Overview 1m 15sCreating 3D Logos in CINEMA 4D- 2h 15m
—Importing and Cleaning up Illustrator Curves 11m 15s
—Modifying the Stump Curves 9m 54s
—Creating the Stump Geometry 10m 2s
—Creating the Text Geometry 5m 36s
—Exporting Polygonal Text Geometry 3m 13s
—Preparing the Character Geometry 3m 29s
—Assembling Geometry in ZBrush 4m 2s
—Posing Woody in ZBrush 10m 35s
—Finishing the Pose 8m 25s
—Assembling Geometry in CINEMA 4D 6m 42s
—Building Woody's Bib 9m 55s
—Adding the Bolts and Fork 10m 6s
—Setting up Materials on the Stump and Text 12m 2s
—Adding the Bib Material 4m 12s
—Setting up the Toon Render 13m 29s
—Adding a Background and Creating a Final Render 12m 37s