programs for 3D text
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- antoine_101
what 3D programs would be best to create this? i have no experience with 3D at all so something that isnt too complex or hard to use would be good. :)
- Raniator0
Word.
- Hanseatic0
You can do in Illustrator. Stack words as vectors, use 3d effect, take to photoshop. Build up these stacks into the distance. The example you provide is quite badly done. The stacks all have different perspectives and angles. I would guess they did it the way I describe.
- digdre0
3ds max
- antoine_1010
thanks :)
yeah i tried in ai but thought there might be something better out there...
3ds max looks too complicated for me to learn by myself
- BaskerviIle0
if you have no experience of 3D then you could always use the 3D extrusion tool and then clean things up in photoshop.
- trooper0
xara 3d:)
- coldy0
even though you dont have experience, extruding text in a 3d program and stacking them on top of one another is very easy. Add Ambient Occlusion when you render and your pretty much there.
- totally_recalled0
cinema 4d will give you a nice render without you knowing too much about the programme.
- FallowDeer0
cinema 4D will do a better render like the image above, but 3D Max will just do the same if you got a better render engine like vray or something.
plus text is the easiest thing to do, import the path from illy and then extrude the shape, 2 minutes turkish
- BaskerviIle0
I'd go for cinema 4D for a nice render but FYI, this was 2 mins in illy, then about 1 min in photoshop doing a rubbish job, reckon you could get something pretty nice if you worked at it, just using illy and ps:
- what do you do in ps for it? just increase contrast etc?antoine_101
- zaq0
- modern0
I'd go with Cinema 4D, 3DS Max has an interface "designed" for nerds so its a ball ache picking up the silly little things that make it work.
Go round 3D tutorial sites and look for nice rendering settings/materials and get your basics from there to make sure it looks good then tweak till your happy.
- detritus0
Getting consistent shading over more than one 'tower' of words will be overly hard to achieve in Illustrator/Photoshop. I'd suggest that a structure as simple as this would be an ideal stepping stone into greater understanding of (insert you preferred 3d program here).
There was a good-ish thread about easy 3d program recommendations recently, but I'll be damned if I can find it.
- stepfunk0
Forever Cinema 4D :)
- stepfunk0
For example..
