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Logo Design: 3D Typography

PauloGabriel — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:31:14 +0000

We keep going through our weekly journey checking out great logos! We're thinking ahead and we want to find new topics, good ones, to share with you guys. Last week we had a great post about logos with swords, and today it's all about logos with 3D Typography!

Every week we search through our favorite galleries: Logopond and Dribbble. Both are a great communities for designers everywhere. Also, if you you'd like to suggest ideas for the next subjects, please, tell me by sending me sending me a tweet: @paulogabriel. Cheers! ;)

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Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil, born in 1984. I have worked as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobby for me since 1999. Here in Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! For more cool stuff, you may also follow me on Twitter.

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Astonishing 3D Computer Graphics

PauloGabriel — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 03:00:01 +0000

As computers get faster and more powerful we get to see better 3D renderings. Artists who opt to make photo-realistic pieces get to achieve some unbelievable results, so unbelievable that it may look more realistic than a photograph, which is insane.

During a visit to the amazing CGSociety I got to see some of the best 3d renderings out there. Truly a place where the best gather, and I felt the urge to show you some of the amazing pieces I saw there. These were done by fantastic artists, and for more of their astonishing work you may visit each portfolio by clicking the images. Don't forget to also check more great artists at CGSociety. It's totally worth the visit.

Mariano Steiner

Luc Bégin

Guillermo Soria

Tolgahan Güngör

Toni Bratincevic

Marek Denko

Andrew Hickinbottom

Meny Hilsenrad

Guang Yang

Christopher Brändström

Arda Koyuncu

Martin Nabelek

Victor Hugo Queiroz

Anderson Brüning

Zbynek Kysela

David Moratilla Amago

Juan Siquier

Dan Roarty

Hanno Hagedorn

Jin Hee Lee

ZhiHeng Tang

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Beautiful Neon Typography by Rizon Parein

abduzeedo — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:42:15 +0000

We love light effects and neons, I believe everybody already knows that. We have posted a few tutorials on how to create light these effects and of course some neons. However when we saw the work of Rizon Parein with were completely blown away and had to post about it.

Rizon Parein started in the early nineties as a graffiti writer with a strong passion for 3d letter styles. When quitted school at age of 17 he started with graphic design to make a living, the school of Hard Knocks.

For more information about Rizon Parein, visit http://www.rizon.be/

While making mainly flyers for Belgiums nightlife scene he was able to experiment a lot with classic graphic design as well as 3d design.

Eristoff Neon Campaign

About the author

Abduzeedo is a blog about design. There are all sorts of articles for those who want to look for inspiration. Also you will find very useful tutorials for the most used applications out there, with a special selection of Photoshop Tutorials and Illustrator Tutorials. You can get in follow us via Twitter at @abduzeedo

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Insurance Map Cover Remake by Fake Studio

abduzeedo — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:02:47 +0000

Fake Studio worked with a few old maps covers made by The Sanborn Maps Co. edited at the beginning of the twelve century. They found those maps and fell in love with those type compositions so they decided to remake one of this old covers using 3D modern technics.

Fake Studio is a design, illustration and motion graphics production company, located in Barcelona, Spain. Check out more of their work on http://www.fakestudio.tv

Original Composition

Process

Final Composition

Detail

For more information visit http://www.fakestudio.tv/fake/

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Amazing 3D Works by Mikael Eidenberg

AoiroStudio — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:17:26 +0000

Mikael Eidenberg a self taught Graphic designer and 3d artist from Sweden. Through the years he had the pleasure to work with agencies such as: Forsman & Bodenfors, DDB, King, Lowe Brindfors, Ogilvy, Akestam Holst, Scholtz & Friends & many others with both swedish and international brands. I truly enjoyed his 3D work, it's very detailed the lighting is just simply superb.

For more information on Mikael Eidenberg, check out more of this work on MikaelEidenberg.se or follow him on Twitter @meidenberg.

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My name's François Hoang and my alias's Aoiro Studio. I am a self-taught freelance graphic designer from Montreal, Canada. I've been designing for the last 4 years and really have a huge passion for creative work that makes a difference in our world. If you wanna requests some posts; I can be found on Twitter or feel free to contact me.

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Inside the work of Lightshock

paul0v2 — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:41:54 +0000

Joao Ferraz aka Lightshock is a Brazilian designer, illustrator, and art director specialized in 3D and publicity campaigns. In this post he will talk a bit about each of his works and give you some insights on how things got done. His work is absolutely amazing and precise so take a look and enjoy!

For more from Joao visit lightshock.com.br

Robot Girl

This job was definitely a big challenge for our work. It got done in about 15 days and the biggest challenge was to make the robot look sensual and modern but not vulgar.

WWF Three

This was one of my first publicity jobs as an art director. This work was awarded in Cannes and opened a lot the doors from DM9 to my studio. The story behind it is very curious. I had just got married, on my way to the honey moon in Buenos Aires when I got contacted by DM9 about this job saying that I was approved and I had a week to get it done. It was crazy since I didn't have a laptop or neither could I cancel the trip. I ended up buying a laptop and spending half of my honeymoon working and barely slept for 4 days.

BGourmet Copan

This was a great project, took us 18 days of hard work and the result was great.

BGourmet Recife

On this one we were ready for it, and it was a lot of fun working with all the differente characters that were inspired by Master Vitalino

Confea

This is a project for the government in which the agency Agnelo is responsive for it. It's a long term project on the Quad illustrations, there's a forum where people give their opinion on the cities and how we should plan them. We take these ideas as a briefing and come up with the illustrations. Which means that while people are giving out opinions the city will take it's shape and this will soon be released. The project can be seen at http://www.cidadecolaborativaconfea.com.br/

Estadao Numeros

This was a simple take on designing a character in 3D.

F1 Phillips

We got this job after we did the Indycar in Sao Paulo. We illustrated a F1 car for Philips. The curious fact is that a photo was actually used for the car since it would be extremelly hard to make that into 3d we used a Canon Mark II and got the job done.

Honda Flex

This was done for DM9 presenting the new Flex motors for Honda motocycles.

Indycar 2010

This was a great challenge, we had 15 days to illustrate the indy cars and the scenery wasn't very easy to create.

Intel Guitar

Another job done for DM9 in which we illustrated virtual instruments to be used in an increased reality. It was very fun to work on this and we love the result. More info at http://www.intelmusica.com.br/

AMBEV Cans

This job was done for MPM Agency. Cans of Ambev illustrated in 3D different sayings for Ambev Trainees. The biggest challenge was to redesign each can design exactly how the real one is.

Speedy

This is an image from a campaign we did for Speedy. Very simple and straight forward.

Subzero

Art produced for a hotsite release of a beer called Sub Zero da Antartica.

Zeppelin

This was a very cool project, that I helped the agency Superludico get done.

Tok&Stok

This was one of the most challenging campaigns we have done in Quad studio. We were approached to create a room full of elements with a single texture and that's how this project was born, the mess represents the fact that they don't have any tok&stock furniture to organize things.

Tok&Stok

Later on we got invited to work for them again and the challenge was even bigger, this time all the objects had to look real and organized. Each image has over 200 objects that took hours and hours of rendering.

About the author

Hi there! I'm Paulo Canabarro, 26 year old web designer - paulocanabarro.com I'm from Brazil currently living and working out of Providence RI, USA. I'm truly passionate about design of all kinds, finding and sharing inspiration here has become part of my life. If you like to know more about me or get in touch visit my website paulocanabarro.com Stock me at Twitter and Dribbble

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Easy 3D Globe in Photoshop

abduzeedo — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:57:25 +0000

A few weeks ago a friend of mine wanted to know how to create a sort of 3D globe effect using Photoshop. I didn't know how to do that but I got really intrigued with that, so I decided to give it a try. I knew that the Spherize would work in this case but didn't know how.

So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a nice 3D globe in Photoshop using basic tools and the Spherize filter. This whole tutorial won't take more than 30 minutes but the technique is really useful especially for icons and logos.

Step 1

Open Photoshop and then with the Rectangle Tool (U) create a rectangle, then start duplicating it until you get 7 columns. Use the Distribute Horizontal Centers to make the distances the same. After that duplicate those 7 rectangles and rotate them to create a grid.

Step 2

With the Elliptical Marquee Tool (M) create a circle selection like the one I did in the image below.

Step 3

Go to Filter>Distort>Spherize. Use 100% for the Amount and Normal for the Mode.

Step 4

Cut the selection and paste it in order to get the front face of the globe.

Step 5

Go to Layer>Layer Styles>Gradient Overlay. Apply a gradient from dark red to light blue in linear mode. You can try with Radial as well.

Step 6

Duplicate the layer and rotate it 45º Also change the gradient colors to light red on top and dark blue at the bottom. This will create a really nice 3D effect and it's super simple.

Step 7

Select the background layer and go to Layer>Layer Styles>Gradient Overlay. Use (#aa616b) and (#2c354d) for the colors, Radial for the Style and 140% for the Scale. Position the center of the gradient a little bit on top of the center of the globe. To do that just click and hold to move the gradient position while you are in the Gradient Overlay properties.

Step 8

Select the two globe layers and duplicate them. After that go to Layer>Merge Layers. You will have one layer with the globe. Go to Layer>Layer Styles>Color Overlay. Use black for the color. After that go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use 15 for the radius. Then just resize it and change the opacity to 20%. to create a nice shadow effect.

Step 9

Select the front face of the globe and edit the Layer Styles. Click then on Inner Shadow and use white for the color, Color Dodge for the Blend Mode at 60% Opacity. Also change the Angle to 100%, Distance to 3 pixesl and Size to 7 pixels.

Step 10

After the Inner Shadow you will get a nice light effect in your globe.

Step 11

Select all layers and duplicate them. After that go to Layer>Merge Layers to have one layer with all the image merged. Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use 20 pixels for the Radius.

Step 12

Change the Blend Mode to Overlay and you will get a really nice light effect.

Conclusion

Now just add the text you want and also you can apply a texture on top. I am using a scanline pattern I created. The whole idea of this tutorial was showing how to create a nice 3D globe using only Photoshop, it's a nice technique for logos and icons and it's super simple to achieve.

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3D World of Stuart Wade

paul0v2 — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:30:16 +0000

Stuart is a designer and visual communicator that has an awesome kick for 3D typography and experiments. The details on his works are absolutely amazing. Check them out!

For more from Stuart visit www.stuartdwade.com

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Vintage 3D Typography in Photoshop with Repoussé

abduzeedo — Mon, 23 May 2011 06:07:08 +0000

Sunday is the day to play with Photoshop and try some new ideas. As usual I went through some books and Web sites to find some inspiration. I am still addicted to the Handy Book of Artistic Printing, it's a must have book for some old style print references. I got some ideas and also found this amazing image from Alex Beltechi on Dribbble called Twisting in the Wind. Then I new the effect I wanted to know how to create in Photoshop.

So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a super cool and very easy effect using Photohosp and the Repoussé tool. The whole process is quite simple, it's less than 10 steps and won't take you more than 30 minutes.

Step 1

Open Photoshop and create a new document. I am using 2560x1680 with 300 DPI (very important) with black background. With the Horizontal Type Tool (T) add a text. I am using for the font Edwardian Script ITC. Notice that I sort of connect the words "the" with "book" with "of" and with "Abduzeedo". After that merge the texts into a new layer then create a marquee selection of the text area by clicking on the thumbnail of the layer holding Command(MAC)/Control(PC).

Step 2

Go to 3D>Repoussé>Current Selection. The Repoussé dialog box will open then change the Depth to .7 and the Lights to Day Lights. Also you might have to select some areas to change the type to Hole for the Internal Constraints.

Step 3

This is the result after the 3D filter. In order to render the final image you must select the Scene in the 3D dialag box and change the Quality to Ray Traced Final.

Step 4

Merge all layers into one including the black background, then go to Image>Adjustments>Levels. Change the Input Levels to 65, 1.35 and 128.

Step 5

Go to Image>Mode>Greyscale. After that go to Image>Mode>Bitmap. Change the Output to 600 pixels/inch and the Method to Halftone Screen.

Step 6

For the Halftone Screen, change the Frequency to 70 lines/inch, the Angle to 45 degrees and the Shape to Line.

Step 7

Go to Image>Adjustments>Levels. Change the Inputs to 17, 1 and 206. Also change the Output Levels to 42 and 255.

Step 8

Time to add some texture. Import some old paper texture, the one I am using is courtesy from Shutterstock and you can find it at http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-43075990/stock-photo-the-old-shabby-pape.... After that go to Image>Adjustments>Leveles. Change the Input to 142, 1.00 and 255.

Conclusion

Change the texture layer to Multiply and the effect is pretty much done. You can also save the image in the step 5 and reuse it here adding on top of the layer with halftone at 50% Opacity to make the effect a bit more smooth. As you can see the Bitmap mode is perfect to create some old style print effect, especially now that when vintage and this sort of effect is quite trendy.

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Wonderful 3D World of Chris Labrooy

paul0v2 — Thu, 12 May 2011 15:38:33 +0000

Chris Labrooy is one of the most amazing 3d artists I've ever seen, his works it totally out of the box. In this post you will see some of his 3D Types creations inspired by the Gods of architecture, the inspiration is so amazing that got me thinking how can someone come up with such great concepts.

You will definitely like to see more from Chris, check him out at www.chrislabrooy.com

Helvetica 3d Type

Another contribution to the ever expanding helvetica image archive. The industrial architectural style with it's rough cast concrete is a perfect fit for helvetica HQ.

Oscar 3d Type

Typography design based on the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer. I picked out my favourite buildings as a basis for developing some expressive letter forms. Included are : Cathedral of Brasília / Niterói Contemporary Art Museum / Ghery house / Ibirapuera Park theatre / Oscar Niemeyer Museum.

Tadao 3d Type

Typography design based on the architecture of Tadao Ando. I picked out my favourite buildings as a basis for developing some expressive letter forms. Included are : Chikatsu Asuka historical museum / Water temple / Naoshima contemporary art museum annexe.

Toyo 3d type

Letter forms inspired by Toyo ito's impressive works. The combination of simple forms with inricate perforations is what excites me about his work. These letters are based on : TOD's omotesando / Tower of winds / Taichung opera house / Mikimoto department store.

Zaha 3D type

Typography design based on the architecture of zaha hadid. With this piece I focused on capturing zaha's formal language rather than reference specific buildings because i am very interested in her drawings and paintings from the eighties.

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Awesome 3D Characters

PauloGabriel — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:00:32 +0000

From time to time we really need to updated you guys with the latest 3D works made by the awesome artists from CGSociety. It's just amazing how creative and badass these pieces are, really worth taking a look.

These were made by various artists and I really recommend you to visit their portfolios by clicking the images. I hope you get inspired by these to make your own 3d pieces. Also, I'd love to see if any of you have done any like these... if you did, tell us! I hope you enjoy these. Cheers! ;)

Marcos Andrade

Riccardo Zema

Oleg Koreyba

Frank Tzeng

Erasmus Brosdau

Andreas Chrysovitsanos

Zhe Pang

Baolong Zhang

ZhiHeng Tang

Krishnamurti Costa

Samuel Poirier

Krishnamurti Costa

Samuel Poirier

Rodrigue Pralier

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3D Characters by Ian Joyner

marcos333 — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:27:02 +0000

I was not a huge CG fan before I got in touch with some awesome CG artists that done some amazing characters for well known videogames. After I saw Ian Joyner characters I got impressed, this guys is really dedicated on his job, making some excellent versions of some Marvels superheroes and other emblematic characters.

Ian worked a big part of his career at Blur studio and done some extremely well done charater modeling as you can see below, hope you enjoy his work as much as me.

"I am a freelance character artist, specializing in character modeling, digital sculpting, texturing and design. I have worked on next-gen games, feature films, and product output/rapid prototyping.
I was previously a character modeler at Blur Studios for over 4 years. At Blur, I worked on everything from feature films, ride films and critically-acclaimed video game cinematics. I have been able to live my childhood dream of making a living by creating monsters, super heroes and epic battles." (Ian's Website)

If you want to know more about Ian, you can access his Website or his CG society profile.

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My name is Marcos Torres, I'm Graphic Artist from Porto Alegre, Brasil. You can get to know more about me by acessing my Personal Website or by following me on Twitter: @marcos333. You can also see some of my last projects at my Flickr.

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Outstanding Game Trailers

marcos333 — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:37:55 +0000

Nowadays, it seems that videogames and movies are becoming more and more similar in some aspects. Movies are getting more interactive, with all these 3D effects and other inventions that were done lately. And videogames are getting more and more theatrical, with better stories, better graphics and outstanding trailers.

Being a huge video games addict, I though a post about game trailers would be an awesome idea, so I collected some recent (and not so recent) game trailers that just blew my head off, I hope you guys agree with this collection and comment what you think is the best game trailer.

Bioshock 2

God of War 3

Grand Theft Auto 4: The Ballad of Gay Tony

Halo 3: ODST

Resident Evil 5

Dead Space 2

Dead Rising 2

Gears of War 3

Crysis 2

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Batman Arkham City

Mass Effect 3

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Just Cause 2

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

Final Fantasy 13

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Incredible 3D Artworks by Diego Maia

marcos333 — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 02:15:51 +0000

Last year I went to a design lecture where I got in touch with Diego Maia's amazing work, he showed a lot of sketches and proccess of his projects. He uses basically just softwares like 3D Max, Z Brush and Photoshop and achieves stunning results as the pictures bellow.

Diego nowadays live at São Paulo and works as Illustrator, Concept Designer and 3D Artist. Unfortunately, I could not found many web references about him, besides his Blog, Flickr and CG Society profile. I tried to get together his best 3D pieces and also some sketches and creative proccess for you guys, enjoy it.

Captain America -

Angel - Dominance War VI

Dr. Octopus - Comicon Challenge 2

Orc bust

Stealth

Vulgrim - Darksiders character

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Beautiful Icons and 3D illustrations by Evgeny Skidanov

abduzeedo — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:48:59 +0000

Evgeny Skidanov is a 3D Illustrator from Moscow, Russia. I came across some of his works while I was checking out the popular entries on Dribbble. Some of his works are done purely in Photoshop like the beautiful Bs-O-Meter, but some are done using 3DS Max with V-Ray and post production in Photoshop.

For more information about Evgeny I highly recommend that you check out his Web site at http://cargocollective.com/skidanov. The full version is in Russian and you can check it out at http://portfolio.skidanov.com/#/commercial. I also recommend that you visit/follow him on Dribbble at http://dribbble.com/3DSMART

The client wanted to present the block to investors on design stage, so I have to model and visualise the block rather quickly, and make it look like a studio photo at the same time. I wanted to make people believe that the detail had already been manufactured. I decided to use NURBS modeling to create a life-sized model as the customer had design drawings. When the model was approved I used maxwell render for photorealistic visualisation. The project has been fulfilled during 5 days.