3D Typography: Playing with Color and Volume
Inflating an Individual Letter: Practice 2
A course by Thomas Burden , 3D Illustrator
About the video: Inflating an Individual Letter: Practice 2
Overview
“Second part of the tutorial for creating an animation to inflate the letters.”
In this video lesson Thomas Burden addresses the topic: Inflating an Individual Letter: Practice 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: 3D Typography: Playing with Color and Volume. Learn how to create surreal typographical animations using Cinema 4D and Redshift.
Partial transcription of the video
“Additional resources: Inflating an individual letter: practice See? That looks pretty nice. One thing I might do is just speed up that animation a little bit. So, if we go to Dope Sheet, and just make sure everything is selected. Here I want to just drag all our frames in a little bit. Just a touch to make that run a bit faster. There we go. Cool. So, if we want it to spin this around, say, from after, as in that first example, I gave you we shall set a key frame here, we wanna spin the whole group around, it's the easiest way. I'll set a keyframe. So here, and spin around in like a... So, ...”
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Course summary for: 3D Typography: Playing with Color and Volume
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Category
3D & Animation, Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Cinema 4D, Redshift Render -
Areas
3D, 3D Animation, 3D Design, Animation, Digital Design, Typography

Thomas Burden
A course by Thomas Burden
Thomas Burden is a 3D illustrator from Chichester, UK. He is best known for his unique visual style blending 3D type and contraptions, an aesthetic influenced by the toys he was never allowed to have as a kid.
Thomas studied Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts in London before working for top illustration studios like McFaul and I Love Dust. In 2013, he made the jump to freelance work, producing ad campaigns and other projects for brands, music festivals, record labels, and editorials. His client list includes McDonald’s, Netflix, Nickelodeon, Playstation, SC Johnson, Bloomingdale’s, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Harpers Collins, and more.
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