Animated 3D Lettering with X-Particles
Liquid O
A course by Erich Gordon , Art Director
About the video: Liquid O
Overview
“In this first lesson of liquid letter we will go to the first thing in every project, save the file. We will create our "O" starting from an existing font, the same one we are working with, and we will customize it a bit to give it more interior space. Remember that this will only serve as a container for our particles and that we want them to have a fluid movement throughout the structure. I will teach you to use the X-Particles tags and their utility, and we will place the XpSystem to generate the first emitter and see if what we did works. ”
In this video lesson Erich Gordon addresses the topic: Liquid O, 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
“Liquid O Now we will continue the project and the lettering. We already passed the letter F and we go to the letter O, where we are going to discover another type of dynamics with other parameters. For this, we will make a new file and we are going to save it on the computer. Go for it. New Project. Let's save the project once in our Bubble_Flow folder, C4. I'm not going to call this bubble, I want it to have another behavior. We are going to work this time with the xpFluidFX which is for fluid simulations. Following a bit with the theme of the sketch that we made in Photoshop, I like this ...”
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Course summary for: Animated 3D Lettering with X-Particles
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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

Erich Gordon
A course by Erich Gordon
Erich Gordon is a graphic designer and art director specializing in typography, lettering, and 3D movement. He has degrees in International Studies and Visual Communication from the Central University of Venezuela.
In 2011, he co-founded C4 Estudio Visual, a graphic design studio that develops projects for a variety of national and international brands.
Erich's work highlights a broad spectrum of cultural, industrial, and artistic references. As an art director, Erich’s projects have been awarded by the Latin American Design Awards, receiving gold (2018) and bronze (2019) in the Typography category.
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