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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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me first ) nice . hopefuly i will be getting my plus membership soon enough )
Thanks!
Very nice :)
anyone know where i can get a hold of a demo of Cinema 4D?
Yeah, http://www.maxon.com
Or if you don’t need construction work done…
http://www.maxon.net/
;)
.H3X.
Hi. Write text in photoshop => “convert to shape” => File, export, paths to illustrator, save => Open Cinema 4D => File, open…, open saved .ai file => extrude NURBS => create scene => render. :)
LOL
-clap-
+1 I don’t think PSDTUTs would be too happy about leaking “their” tutorial xD
hehe! Good one…
rofl nicely done
LOOL
Well this is a pretty good resumé, I did’nt have a premium membership but I dont need to see this tutorial as well as you way is the one I did’knew for 3d Max (or at least, it is the basics)
awesome tut :D simple and useful
NIIIIICE :D
Just what I needed :)
ooh. i’m thinkin’ i’m going to buy plus membership beacuse of this tutorial.
This is a PLUS tutorial? C’mon.
There are so many C4D type tutorials on the web for FREE….google.
Blender = free
Google = free
Same result in a few minutes..
I honestly don’t see the point right now.
Maybe I’m missing something, but then please explain.
Yeah tutorial done within ~10 minutes. Don’t see the need for a plus tut here. Except for lightning but if you learn lighting the only real way to learn is with Jeremy Birn’s “light & rendering”.
Thanks anyway for the tut.
Cool.
This looks good but it would be cool to see some compositing techniques
or some cool textures. Would love to see some more Cinema tuts. Keep them coming!
very cool.thanks
Exactly why on Earth is this tutorial so wicked that it has to be PLUS??
Exactly.
PSDTuts is fail lately.
I must agree, this wouldn’t cause anyone to buy a plus membership. I already have mine, and it’s great, but I wouldn’t buy it for this.
However, it is a nice tutorial. Cool clean design.
Thanks
gahhh… why’d it have to be plus
You can find the same tutorial on the net in ten different places. This is almost the exact same tutorial found on Video Copilot. The difference is on Video Copilot the text says, you guessed it, “Video Copilot”. It’s in The Blog Section dated back a couple of months.
plus !! why !!
Wow I just did this around about 1 hour ago with a tut… its not really that hard tbh. I find this sort of tutorial good but pointless in away being plus an all.
http://www.gomediazine.com/tutorials/create-3d-objects-in-cinema-4d-from-vector-art/
A tutorial along the same lines for those who want to try it out.
there are so many FREE tuts like this out there xD
I’ve been wondering if it’s necessary to upgrade to cs4..I got connections so I can get it uber cheap but is it even worth it?
Of course it’s plus though, it looks awesome!
I don’t think the point is that it “looks awesome”. This is a very simple technique that even the most novice C4D users can do.
The only tricky part is the Global Illumination.
Ya, but also understand the marketing behind psdtuts, the tutorials are to satisfy people who don’t know how to do these techniques, not necessarily to satisfy the interests of professionally qualified users..
To a beginner, these techniques are cool..but to a professional they are “eh…”
Still, hardly something anyone — even a novice should be charged to view. This one should’ve been a freebie.
Its worth it cutie
Would this be do-able as easy as this with Blender? Maybe you could also create some tutorials combining PS and Blender, since Blender is free (and less important: open-source). That would make your tutorials available to a wider range at readers….
You probably can, it would be different than C4D though. But Blender is very awesome, IMO better than any other software.
Nice, I might try this in Blender.
Anybody knows the font that is used in this tutorial?
i think its avant garde alternate
This is Basic!
Text/Vector to Spline. put in a Extruder Nurb
The Lightning just the same. It´s a simple Studio Lightning.
I didn’t subscribe the tut but I’m pretty sure that GI was used in the render settings :) Makes a huge difference when you render out.
this is Basic for a cinema4d artist. Theres no high skill render setting
The same effect can you make with Gi and a HDRi FIle ;P
I use this Program since Maxon Cinema 4D 6
Is there a way to do GI without vRay?
Why this is a Plus Tutorial? :(
to increase some plus members :)
Nice looking final image, I like the lighting, I agree with most, …3D text in C4D tutorials can be found for Free :o) This should not be a Plus tut!
Here is a free Tut for a Studio Lighning. It is for 3d studio max but it is Portable to Cinema 4D since Version 8
http://tinyurl.com/studio-lightning
Why Photoshop? Use Illustrator and save it down to a Legacy or Illustrator 3 file type and then import into your 3d Package and put an extrude modifier on it.
Render away.
This is awesome! Too bad for me I don’t have a plus :(
I’ve seen some of these in Behance and always wondered how they were made.
Can anyone link me a to a similar tutorial. I would get the plus, but
I don’t have a job :(
this is a plus tutorial?!! i don’t hink soo
but anyways the look is very cool
This reminds me, I should probably get Cinema 4D :-)
I do not think this tutorial belongs to plus because not many of us even have or know how to use Cinema 4D, right, guys?
Nice design but this shouldnt be in the PLUS section. Maybe because they have a lot of crap tutorials lately and when something more polished than the others comes along they push into the PLUS section.
Cmon guys, get it together!
Awesome … :) . LOT OF THANKS
noooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!! why plus!!!! anybody wanna tell whats inside!!
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/3d__and__animation/the_new_way_to_create_3d_text
tnx for this
Yea, I have checked that out before. Best tutorial on the net for this simple technique.
you right
I got too excited about this, found out that it’s ‘PLUS’, my excitement went down :/
me too! :D
Ok, I bought the Plus account for this as I am new to C4D. First complaint is that the type treatment could have been done in AI but Author does not tell you this until the end of the photoshop segment. I was going through the tut going,”I guess there is a reason he is doing this in Photoshop, because this would have been way easier in AI…” No, no reason. Author even says that it would have been easier inAI. But too late. Needs to have a part that says that if you’re more comfortable in AI then use that. Secondly,I am new to C4D and not good at all with lighting. Is there any way the author can show how to achieve the lighting effects without a 3rd-party?
All-in-all a good tut. Just the above critiques!
Couldn’t you do this tutorial using Adobe Illustrator rather than a programme that’s not related to Adobe? I’m guessing far more users have Illustrator than Cinema 4D and would prefer to see similar techniques used from C4D and used in Illustrator and then finally finished in Photoshop. Just a suggestion.
As for the tutorial itself, i like it. Plain & simple. Good job :)
cool one this is what i want…. ;)
but a PLUS one :(
Cool outcome. What’s the name of that font?
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/3d__and__animation/the_new_way_to_create_3d_text
iis this noted link tutorial and the tutorial here in psdtuts are same?
for those plus members who have seen this…how do you get the floor or wall to curve down like that…
Just think. Some one got paid for this as well. Yeah I said it. :D And I am jellies.
What type of font is that they’re using?
coooooooooooooooool
i am lured to upgrade to plus. :P
You could do so much with the text, patterns, effects and a lot more to look at least cool but this is just simple rendering with shadows and few light effects.
anyone know what font is used here?
Hey, thanks for the feedback. This first part of this two part set is aimed at Beginner 3D artists. The second Part is still aimed at beginners, or intermediate artits, though covers a whole lot more scene development in C4D.
I think there is so much potential with mixing 3D skills and Photoshop and I’d like to work with more artists in this area. Also, we’re still working on putting together a 3D dedicated Tuts+ site. Until then, I’m happy to meet artists that can mix Photoshop and 3D together.
Part II of this tutorial will come out this coming Wednesday. These two tutorials work independently, but I think people will have a different perspective once they see the results of the second part. The second part takes this lettering and adds a whole lot to it to make a Poster that get’s polished in Photoshop.
Again, thanks for all the feedback!
what font is used in this tut? Been looking for it….