3D Typography: Playing with Color and Volume

Learn how to create surreal typographical animations using Cinema 4D and Redshift

• Introduction
• Initial Ideas and Sketches
• All Things Cinema 4D
• Final Touches to the Final Image
• Additional Resources
• Final project

Influenced by the toys he was never allowed to have as a kid, Thomas Burden creates colorful 3D work that is both hyper-realistic and timeless. His unique nostalgic style blends 3D type and playful contraptions, getting him noticed and landing him freelance work with Nickelodeon, Netflix, Playstation, McDonald’s, Bloomingdale’s, and more.

In this course, Thomas takes you through his entire creative process for building typographical 3D animations using Illustrator, Photoshop, Cinema 4D, and Redshift. He shares some of his best work, teaches the essentials of each software, and explains his method for creating inflatable 3D type, a useful technique that can be applied to future design and illustration projects.

• Introduction
• Influences
• What Will We Do in This Course?
• Overview of Software Workflow
• Initial Concepts & Gathering Inspiration
• Sketching Out a Layout in AI and Export Vector Paths
• Setting up the Cinema 4D Document
• Create a 3D Sketch in C4D
• Adding Some Basic Lighting / Textures and a Camera with Redshift
• Modelling the Letters 1
• Modelling the Letters 2
• Modelling the U
• Modelling the Ball Pool
• Modelling the Cushions
• Modelling The Mats
• Modelling the Castle 1
• Modelling the Castle 2
• Modelling the Castle 3
• Finishing Touches: Adding Cloth Dynamics to the Curtains and Some Balls to the Scene 1
• Finishing Touches: Adding Cloth Dynamics to the Curtains and Some Balls to the Scene 2
• Extra info on newer versions of Cinema4D
• Adjusting Lighting/Refining the Render Settings
• Using Redshift AOV Manager
• Importing Final Render and AOV to Photoshop: Preparing Photoshop Files for Editing
• Editing/Refining Final Image Using the AOV Files
• Saving the Final Image as a Friendly Client Photoshop File
• Inflating an Individual Letter: Practice 1
• Inflating an Individual Letter: Practice 2
• Introduction to Redshift
• 3D Typography: Playing with Color and Volume