Animated 3D Lettering with X-Particles

Overview

“For this first part, you do not need to make a sketch, but you do need to choose a suitable font or font to be our particle container. For this we are going to start with an existing font that we will download or that we already have on the computer, which will serve as the basis for our lettering . It is important that you know that if you follow this route for the rest of your letters, you must choose a suitable font, full of curves and that has enough body and reading. Remember to choose a font that is comfortable to work with. When I say comfortable, I mean that the lyrics have enough body to fill them with emitters and the project is more attractive. I'm going to choose a font from Pamgram Pamgram, but you choose the one you want. ”

In this video lesson Erich Gordon addresses the topic: Choosing sources, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animated 3D Lettering with X-Particles. Learn to create simulations with the Cinema 4D plugin and bring your fonts to life.

Partial transcription of the video

“Choosing sources In this lesson we will choose the sources and we will navigate the web looking for a font that we like or is also valid that we review all the sources that we have on our computer. This will allow us as a base to carry out our project. Go for it. They will say, what is that photo doing there? It seems appropriate to start this lesson with the photo of Once, the star of "Stranger Things", in his initial stage where he was discovering all his powers and trying to crumple a can. It is very symbolic and very pictorial what we are going to be doing, which is the same but experie...”

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

• Level: Intermediate
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• 791 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