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Using Typography from PS to Create a 3D Text Render in C4D – Psd Premium Tutorial

on May 6th 2009 with 102 comments
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We have another Psd Plus tutorial exclusively available to Premium members today. If you want to take your 3D text skills to the next level, then we have an exciting tutorial for you. Discover how to create composed typography in Photoshop and then export to C4D to compose a scene! As usual, loads of great tips and techniques in this tutorial!

Learn Creative 3D Text Techniques in this Psd Premium Tutorial

In this tutorial I will be showing you step-by-step in Photoshop to edit text in order to create a neat, tight typographic image, then exporting vector information from Photoshop into Cinema 4D, where you will learn the basics of creating 3D text, building a stage, creating a studio light setup and finally rendering with Global Illumination using Vray. Also, I’m working on Part II of this tutorial, which will add more figures, rendered splashes, and interest to this scene. Look out for it in the Premium section soon.

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  • Oolong

    Any good way to export this for print? My first time using c4d… I’ve tried adjusting the render settings up to 1280×1024. Also in the render settings, I’ve changed the dpi under the save tab to 300.

    Finally, in the picture viewer (after rendering), I’ve tried saving as both a 300 dpi targa and a 300dpi tiff. Any other suggestions?

  • Miguel Santana da Silva
    Author

    The font used is ITC Avant Garde Gothic Bold:
    http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/itc-avant-garde-gothic/

    Oolong, for print you may want to increase the actual dimensions, 1280×1024 is still quite small. A4 size is 2480×3506 pixels, and A3 is 3508×4961. 300dpi targa should be fine for that.

    Thanks everyone for the feedback, sorry to hear some of you don’t think it’s worthy of the site. Part 2 will focus on adding some more elements to this scene and finalizing the event poster in Photoshop.

    • Oolong

      Sounds good. How do I do that? This is my first time with Cinema 4D. I guess this is done outside of the render settings?

  • John

    is the .c4d available for download?

    :)

  • http://www.nightcure.com Teon

    I really like that font. Is it a modified Avant Garde or is there an actual font.

    • Digi.

      Its a mixture of the ITC Avant Garde Bold font with the ITC Avant Garde Gothic Alternate Bold font (the letter A), they’re rare fonts, costing around $164 for a set of 5. >_<

  • Miguel Santana da Silva
    Author

    Yes, the c4d file is included in the source files.

    • Johnny

      can someone show me how to bend the floor plz!!!!!!

      • http://www.miguelsantana.net Miguel Santana da Silva
        Author

        in the extrude nurbs object on your object list, if you expand it by pressing the plus button you should see spline objects. you just need to move the points about in those spline objects

  • nr

    my first render result is this http://yfrog.com/04captureldyj
    what can be the problem about render settings?

    • http://www.miguelsantana.net Miguel Santana da Silva
      Author

      I see, the problem seems to occur in the areas where two letters intersect… are you using vray, and does it happen even with all the lights and backdrop?

      • E.

        I’m having the exact same problem, using Cinema 4d for mac 10.5 and Vray 1.0821. I rendered your scene as you provided it.

  • E.

    If someone gets results that differ a lot because of the high intensity of the lights, try unchecking ‘No decay’ under the VrayLight > Area light. Also, put Subdivisions here to 16 or higher to remove grain in shadows and put ‘Store with irradiance map’ for even better results.

  • http://www.RedesignYourBiz.com/ Maverick

    very nice and impressive design

  • Micah

    Did anyone else do this tutorial and have trouble getting the scene set up to render correctly? Mine just wont set up the way his is in the example file.

  • antihero

    i can’t render it correctly! always got a black background :(

  • André Petrini

    Man, my final image is not rendering the Stage. Everything behind the Type is black. What can I do?

    • Aubrey

      Same thing for me, lame.
      I’m definitely a beginner at C4D so I’m dying to get that red stage to render instead of just an all black background.

  • Joshua Bogart

    please fix tutsplus…..

  • oregon

    upload this tutorial, on rapidshare or deposit please….

  • http://www.davidsidhom.com dave sidhom

    Can anyone tell me where i can get ambient occlusion and global illumination plugins for cinema 4d r10?!

    Cheers.

    D

  • http://www.briancmartin.com Brian

    Who the heck uses Cinema 4D! 3ds max people!

  • http://www.watnodoor.com avigill

    wonderful…

    thanks for this article

  • http://www.grabsomeenergy.co.uk/ James Lawson

    Hey, I really love this effect you’ve got going on.. but I’m very new to cinimea 4D, could you do a video tutorial at some point please?! :-D thank you!

  • saddam

    nice

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