July 2013 Tutorial: Packaging and Perspective

[ernie-f]

Whow, they don't let me edit the attachmant!

So here is my quick 'n dirty contribution to Gare's challange.

[mwenz]

And my last version for the day. God Bless phone time. Perfect for mucking around on the computer.

[stygg2003]

Nothing as good as mwenz Gary, just used the planer shapes pic to practice more with the mould tool.

Stygg

[Gare]

Bernie, Mike, stygg, all excellent and imaginative examples!

Stygg, you want to lose the "drop shadow" behind the red letters. They confuse the viewer's eye mostly because they don't represent the lighting angle in the image...they fight it.

Rik, would you like to try to show us all how the PMS, and L letters might look extruded, or pushed into, the dodecahedron?

You're good at this sort of stuff!

Well done, all around!

Thanks for contributing!

Gary

[Boy]

Had fun playing with the perspectives in this picture. I used some of Angelize's decorative curves on the Xone billboard. The banner is a bit too bright but I did not want to redo the whole thing. Thanks for the tut, Gare.

[Big Frank]

and here's one from me
bottle caps and bloody murderous slaughter
all in the space of an afternoon
must be a slow day...

[stygg2003]

Changed the letters to extrudes, not very good I'm afraid so come on Rik your a master at this sort of work, show us how it's done.

Stygg

[mwenz]

And here is my attempt at adding 3D text.

Some wishes for this. I cannot get predictable results picking color off another object when setting the fill, line or light colors. They always need adjusted, unlike 2D objects.

[Big Frank]

good attempt mike

[Gare]

Even without Rik's guidance, stygg, Mike, you both did quite well!

I'm attaching a file of the polygon with bump-mapped characters on it, plus my attempt at recreating the effect. Bump and displacement mapping usually give a soft edge to protruding characters, it's not the same as extrusion. And there's no "right way" to do this because we're all speculating on an unknown property here!



After distorting the character, I used the Contour feature to make one larger copy, then converted the group to simplified shapes. Then using only the outer shape, I used both the Feather and Transparency features to imitate what I thought was right in the original rendered model image at top.

My Best,

Gary