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July 2014 Tips and Tricks - Going Beyond 3D
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Extruded text is eye-catching. But what if you want to out-do the competition with 3D text that makes an arc behind a foreground shape? Or what if you need a logo where the extruded text actually warps like those sci-fi movies. Look no further. The steps are right here, as are illustrations of where to go, what to do, all without those funny red and blue 3D cardboard glasses! Read More here.
Show us what you can do when you go beyond 3D in this thread.
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Well I have to say thanks for this tutorial my husband's birthday is coming up and I've been trying to decide what to do for his birthday card this year, and this tutorial has inspired me. The card is a work in progress but I will post a version when it's done. In the meantime I did the tutorial and here is that :)
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I wanted to follow the tutorial, as closely as I could.
So, this is what I ended up with.
Thanks, Gary.
Very enjoyable indeed.
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Francis and Rik:
Now that you know how to arc text, and it should be easy to draw a silhouette of a friend, or Shrek, or The Cookie Monster, let's see variations so you know how the theory, not just the practice is done, eh?
And I'm glad you found some compatible typefaces.
My Best,
Gary
P.S. By the way, I skirted any copyright issues in this tutorial, by not using a last name, and depicting a silhouette and not the person's photo, face or otherwise "rip off" proprietary content. Now when in doubt, it's best not to do what I did, so you might want to consider doing a silhouette of say, a pirate, and using "Yo Ho!" as the text behind the silhouette.
See? You just take a look "outside of the box", and new content comes to you.
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My Best,
Gary
P.S. The drape background was created using Digital Anarchy's Background Designer, a useful tool. It's price is steep at $200, but if you do a lot of compositing work fro people photography, it's a great resource.
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I enjoyed that. It wan't simple getting each character to look right but here's my attempt.
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Looking good, Egg! You got the principle; that's the payoff, and your scene looks brilliant and inviting. It was not simple, totally agree.
I'm always happy to see someone take a tutorial one step farther than copying it.
I'm also happy when someone copies it and learns something.
Hell, I'm happy when someone reads these tutorials! :)
My Best,
Gary
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Gare
Hell, I'm happy when someone reads these tutorials! :)
Being still on vacation I belong to that state but so already read! :) (in other words Hell, Gare people are reading your tutorials even on their vacation, even without availability to the program to try :D)
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You made my day, csehz!
Thanks,
Gary
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csehz
(in other words Hell, Gare people are reading your tutorials even on their vacation, even without availability to the program to try :D)
Agreed. I know I do even though I may not post. Sometimes I even have to go back to them because I can't quite remember how it was done.
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wizard509
Sometimes I even have to go back to them because I can't quite remember how it was done.
Me too.
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Not perfect but had a lot of fun doing this one. Learnt a lot from your files Gary, I will try to improve on the 3D text but as Egg said, it's not easy doing those letters. It is well worth the effort to learn and improve on this this tips and tricks.
Stygg
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Stygg you look inspirated :D I really like it, creative and original one
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csehz
Stygg you look inspirated :D I really like it, creative and original one
Cheers csehz for your kind remarks, I've not posted, as many have about the lack of drawing tools in XPD-P10 but I think my image says it all :D Think I'll just upgrade to XPD10 and stick with my XPD7 as well, which I love.
Stygg
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Your piece shows a lot of work and thought, stygg, specifically "thinking outside of the box (or cube!)".
You're putting what you've gained fronm previous tutes into each successive composition and it's exciting to see where you go each month!
By the way, LEGO men can beat the crap out of Cube men and besides they got a movie this summer!
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My Best,
Gary
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OMG Gary your Lego men have destroyed my cube army, I'll have to do some modifications to their ray gun ;))
Stygg
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Gare thanks for the tutorial, just have tried which always wanted once mixing the rainbow colours on the extrudes
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Also a little bit different angle of the characters to hide the fact that does not seem to be easy to mix ranbow lights on the depth of the extrudes or how to say
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csehz—
If I might make a suggestion: you already have the geometry in-place for the extruded sides. With a little work, you could draw over the sides and add a gradient of your choice.
That's one of the neat things about Xara: you can mix different media!
My Best,
Gary
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Gare yes sure thanks for any advice, I will play with it on the weekend yet
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Once you get an extrude the way you want it, you just draw over the darned thing, and use any side colors you like:
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Have fun this weekend!
:)
Gary
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Well so drew over the sides and what to do, filled also those with rainbow :D
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Well so drew over the sides and what to do, filled also those with rainbow :D
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Nice one csehz, can't believe you forgt about making faces and filling them with whatever, I think you had to much football on your mind ;))
Stygg
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Re: July 2014 Tips and Tricks - Going Beyond 3D
Stygg thanks but sorry, can not be too much football in a mind :D
The reason here was rather my traditional approach that let's solve everything through the Extrude tool lights :) So briefly the laziness :D But I admit there are much more opportunities in this way of drawing through the sides
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I have just thought yet why not do a firework for the heart chakra on Saturday :D
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I was thinking of what to do from the Scribble, that Larry posts every month.
I then remembered that Gary's been teaching us about 3D...
So, I thought I would try and put both ideas into practice.
Obviously you can let me know if things look OK?
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I think your technique and rendering of the steel texture is wonderful, Rik. Only one minor observation: Because the shadows are casting slightly to the right and to the back, that means the light source must be in front, casting from the left to right.
Therefor, unless there's a hidden light or internal ambient illumination, the area I've circled here should not be light: it is hidden from the light source by the front face, no?
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Nice style and a lot of work is evident, Rik.
Three thumbs up!
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Hey!
I don't remember drawing a black arrow and a red circle on my drawing?! ;))
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Seriously though. I wondered about that. Tried it on the right leg of the 'M', and didn't like it.
Then, got a bit involved with other bits and I think I just forgot.
OK. I'll have another go and see what it looks like.
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Second time's the charm, Rik.
Stupendous.
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Hey!
I don't remember drawing a black arrow and a red circle on my drawing?! ;))
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You don't? It's right there. Or did Gare do it, I'm confused. ;))
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You don't? It's right there. Or did Gare do it, I'm confused. ;))
I'm normally very careful.
Obviously, this time I was distracted by something.
Good of Gary to point out, that I'd left an arrow and a red circle in my drawing! ;))
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"I think your technique and rendering of the steel texture is wonderful, Rik. Only one minor observation: Because the shadows are casting slightly to the right and to the back, that means the light source must be in front, casting from the left to right".
Gary if that is the light source as you say, would the other two faces be in shade?
Stygg
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Thanks for your kind comments, stygg.
I don't have a 3D modelling programme.
So, Gary is probably the best person to answer your question.
I just tried to use a bit of imagination.
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Hi Rik, please forgive me for not mentioning that you did a really good job on that image and you did, I just wanted to know, as Gary pointed out the light source, if the other two faces would be in shade. Your image from imagination is brilliant.
Stygg
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Okay, I committed a cardinal sin and breach of etiquette when I copied Rik's piece, annotated it, and reposted it.
This is the sort of thing that will get you kicked off certain other forums, so please forgive me, Rik, I was only trying to point out something that struck me that would improve your future efforts, and unless you give specific permission, I won't take that liberty again, regardless of how well-intentioned it was.
And to make up for it, I tried to do a version of your metal logo, and I'm not quite happy with it, so I invite your input and you have my permission to download and mark it up.
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My Best,
Gary
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Rik
Hey!
I don't remember drawing a black arrow and a red circle on my drawing?! ;))
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The above, is what I said.
I would hope that the laughing smiley should be enough to tell everyone, that the comment I'm making is supposed to be funny.
I take no offense at anything you've done, Gary.
Therefore, I will not accept any apology. Because, none is needed.
I'm grateful that you pointed out a mistake.
Something I forgot about (whilst concentrating on other things) and I'm grateful for your help and guidance.
EDIT: On top of which, you expect me to better your M. Yeah! Give me a few decades.
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Hello, Rik.
Look down here.
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Now look at yourself. Now look at me. Do you smell something fishy?
I was kidding, as everyone else has been for several posts. I admire your sensitivity and creativity, but as we Yanks say, "I was just blowing smoke..."
And my parody of your logo was much quicker to model after envisioning it, than doing something hard like drawing it.
Now look up.
...and if this makes no sense, the UK doesn't get Old Spice commercials!
:)
Gary
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I used the techinques from this tips and tricks on a My husband's birthday card. here is a version of the card, there is an empty space where I stripped out a personal message.
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Your Husbands only 3? Some toy-boy!
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Nicely done Francis, I see one Y had a few birthday drinks :D
Stygg