Animated 3D Lettering with X-Particles

Animated 3D Lettering with X-Particles

“We have reached the end of the course! I hope you have learned a lot and that you enjoyed the process as much as I did. Next, we will go over the final project process. We are going to take all these tools that we have seen during the course and we are going to apply the knowledge we have of X-Particles to our lettering . In my project I have taken the word "FLOW", which seems to me to function as a concept and structure as it is a short four-letter word, and whose meaning involves much of what X-Particles is. During the course, I made two of those letters with the same look and same resources, and the other two with another behavior and another look . Mixing it up can create interesting work on simulations and fluids, so I leave it to your discretion, if you want to do the first two with the same tools and the last two with other simulations and techniques, great, the important thing is that they are balanced. in weigh. Sketch Look for fonts on your computer or on some pages that I left you to download. Take into account their thickness and remember that they should not be so thick because the idea is that the simulation does it, so an extended family using the medium will work for you. If the font does not have medium, but you like it a lot, the regular one is also good for you. Guide yourself with the lesson where I manually edited the letter "O" to give it more space inside.

Design the letter Remember that I made a brief sketch, we are not going to follow it to the letter, it is only for you to evaluate space and reading of your word. When you have in mind what you are going to do and the sketch, generate the fonts with the Cinema 4D text tools, it may well be a text mograph with spline and extruder . The important thing here is that they have enough subdivisions so that you have a lot of geometry when starting to work with X-Particules. X-Particles In this step remember to define what technique you want to use. If you want to generate particles inside the body of the letter by placing as many emitters as necessary throughout its interior or if you want to use dynamics. If you choose this last option, remember that you must create a cinema shader with an nose because that is where we are going to tell XP to emit the particles and thus have a chromatic variation interesting. Cache This part is the last thing you will do when you are satisfied with the result in the simulations. Remember to do it with the external path by assigning it a path within your project folder. Postproduction In this step we are going to do art direction in our project, choosing a color palette and adjusting the lights to create different shades. Remember to export a sequence of images, which can go from a jpeg or a png, and it is essential to make sure that they have 16 bits of image depth channels, which will then allow us to manipulate more the settings in After Effects. Render time This is the last part you have to take into account, here we import our image sequences into After Effects and apply the different adjustment layers to achieve more brightness in our final render. Export the project in Adobe Media Encoder to get a Mp4, which is lighter and is the format that most social networks like Instagram accept. Luck! Now it's your turn, share your final project with all of us by clicking on "Create your project". Remember to share both the final result and the steps that have led you to it. To make the final project, remember that, in order not to force the performance of the computer too much, it is better to design each letter in a separate file. And remember to always save! I have put a lot of emphasis on this because it is fundamental. I wait for you in the forum to give you feedback of your final project. I am looking forward to seeing it! See you soon!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project To end the course we are going to review everything we have seen. We started by talking a bit about myself, my career and my work. And I also showed you a little bit of all those influences that have helped me throughout my career. We enter the INSYDIUM website to see a little the scope of plugins and of everything it is capable of doing. We went to the test section to install and download it on our computers. Next, we did a little tour to see the main tools that we would start using during the project. Looking at the X-Particles tools, we touched on the issue of emitters a bi...”

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Course summary for: Animated 3D Lettering with X-Particles

• Level: Intermediate
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• 775 students
• 5 units
• 20 lessons (4h 2m)
• 4 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation, Calligraphy & Typography

• Software

  Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Cinema 4D

• Areas

  3D, 3D Animation, 3D Lettering, Animation, Motion Graphics, Photography Post-production, Typography