3D World

3D World

3D World

The new 3D World magazine is on sale from today in the UK. I was offered the exciting opportunity of creating the cover artwork and a twenty second animation for this months issue.

3D World from Tim Clapham on Vimeo.

Working with Mark Allin, an old friend and my ex-business partner from HYPA. We both developed the concept and design of the piece. I then took the designs and worked up the 3D animation in Cinema4D and completed the composite and grade in After Effects. Thanks to Mark, who also created the sound design for the animation.

As part of the project, I wrote a 36 step tutorial that walks you through the processes to create something similar yourself. Please visit the 3D World official website to find out more and order your own copy.



21 Responses to ”3D World”

  1. Regis Says:

    Hi There,

    Excellent, but I didn’t really get the point when you are saying about using a fracture object to follow more accurately the contour… Well I guess, I will go back to some courses I enrolled in fxphd when you explained about it.
    But anyway, great stuff, thanks a lot.

    Thx

    -Regis

  2. Phil Says:

    Is there a way to see the Tutorial online?
    Best regards, Phil

  3. Rob Maxwell Says:

    Tim,

    Love it! Can’t wait to get it in the mail.

    Best wishes,

    Rob
    maxwellvisual

  4. dogimo Says:

    just wow !
    I have to take some classes from fxphd !!!

  5. Tim Says:

    Sorry Phil, I don’t think the tutorial will be online.

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  7. Thomas Says:

    Can’t wait for the weekend to have a nice look on this brilliant piece of art work…

    Big Thanks for this one!!!

  8. Victor Soares Says:

    Hi Tim, that’s a great tutorial, but can ou give more tips about placing the elements by hand, using the Fracture Object as you have mentioned!

    Thanks!

  9. digitalove Says:

    the tutorial is online at the 3d-world website, along with the project files.

    http://www.3dworldmag.com/page/3dworld?entry=tutorial_files_for_3d_world3

    looks great Tim! I’m going to sit down and go through it tomorrow.

  10. Voxel Says:

    Thanks for the online tutorial.
    It was a good job from you.

  11. Klas Says:

    Hi Tim,

    Thanks for the tutorial. Very informative and I apppreciated it a lot.
    Especially the part on shaders, materials and lights.

    //Klas

  12. Raj Says:

    Hi Tim,

    Firstly thanks for the awesome tutorial, but could you please explain how to manipulate the individual objects using Fracture Objects ? Do you use Shatter or Explosion to separate them ?

    Thanks

    Raj

  13. Tim Says:

    The objects are all placed by hand to make the shape of the letters. Sorry no quick way to achieve this. For the 3D World logo, it was designed in Illustrator first with simple vector shapes representing the objects, then this was used as a background image to help position the 3D objects in C4D. Once all the objects are in place, you then make them children of a Fracture object and set up the dynamics from there.

    thanks
    Tim

  14. Victor Soares Says:

    That’s a lot of work, but the result is much better, thanks for answering Tim!

  15. Jesus Says:

    Hey Tim, I was working on this tutorial and everything looked good till I brought it into AE. It seems the dynamics were jumping on several frames. I was using Net render to render this out. Do I have to cache the dynamics before I send it out to my farm? would the render farm give me those issues?

  16. Tim Says:

    yeah you’ll need to cache the dynamics for rendering over NET

  17. Ryan Farmer Says:

    Just ordered the February issue because of this!
    I know it will be amazing!
    Thanks!
    Ryan Farmer

  18. Tim Says:

    Ryan, it is issue 126 you should have ordered, I think you ordered the wrong issue for my tutorial! Well if that’s what you’re after?

  19. Felipe Assef Says:

    was watch your tutorial “Create a Brilliant Motion Graphics in Cinema 4D”, and I was wondering how do you get the cloners objects perfect align to the logo shape?

  20. Eric Says:

    tim, you’re a champ. i’m going through the tutorial and i had 2 questions.

    first, it would be cool if you could go over what you had to do with the fracture object to make everything align perfectly to create the letters. that process is unfamiliar to me.

    second, for some reason cinema 4d was crashing when i tried to export the .aec composting file after i made the render. as a test i opened your file that came with the project and exported the .aec file fine, cinema 4d didn’t crash. it did take a few minutes to make the file. i’m just curious if you’ve ever encountered that problem.

    keep up the good work, your tutorials are the best.

  21. Eric Says:

    you can ignore the first part of my post, after i posted i read what everyone else wrote…. oooops

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