Create An Elegant Animated Glass Logo In C4D

Create An Elegant Animated Glass Logo In C4D

on Apr 4th 2011 with 26 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Software: Maxon Cinema 4D
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Estimated Completion Time: 1 Hour

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 2 of 9 in the Best of Cinema4D – Part 2 Session
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In today’s tutorial Antonio Cerri, author of the popular “Movie Title” series over on Aetuts+, will show us how to create a complex animated logo using Cinema4D and Adobe Illustrator. These techniques can be used for many types of work, and the results are always exceptional.

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I am a freelancer in web, graphic and motion design for about 12 years. When he was young, I was always fascinated by the world of digital visual effects and 3D Motion Graphics, with a focus on impacts futuristic hi-tech. My passion for this work has grown increasingly, thanks to continuous research, but mainly thanks to experimentation, mixing all the graphic visual disciplines "Photography, Design type font, sound effects FX, etc.." For me it is very important, that at the end of writing work, they remain surprised and satisfied. For information and questions, please contact me through my website.  

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  • Markerman

    WOW nothing more nothing less

    Just w8ing for a 3d max version

    Rgds

  • http://monolithcreative.com jason

    oh god…not the text to speech guy again.

  • http://www.therocketpanda.com therocketpanda

    :( terrible…
    And I was hoping in some new cool C4D tutorial…

    • http://www.crrntn.com Antonio Cerri
      Author

      Ciao Riccardo Albertini,
      I am sorry that you do not like this tutorial. But I just tried to explain a technique.

  • http://www.chris-slowik.com Chris Slowik

    “author of the popular “Movie Title” series” …. ah maybe THATS why my movie title tutorials which are much more in-depth (including c4d/aep/psd files) and not text-to-speech don’t get accepted. For some reason this guy has a monopoly lol.

    I don’t understand how these get accepted and what’s holding my proposals back. It would be nice to have a response for a rejected tutorial indicating what it needs to be accepted.

  • Steve

    Loving all the flickering on the Render…………Disco.

    • http://www.crrntn.com Antonio Cerri
      Author

      Hi Sten,
      Thank you for your comment.
      The flickering can be removed easily in post production. Tutorial explains only a technique in cinema 4d.

  • http://www.therocketpanda.com therocketpanda

    I’m not complaining for rejected tutorials, but to me it’s quite incredible that tutorials like this one are published even if the quality of both result and tutorial is this low…
    It’s been a while I’ve been following this whole tutsplus thing and it seems to me that the rule is quantity over quality…
    Honestly I’d be ashamed to have such bad tutorials on my website, but that’s just my point of view.
    (I want to clarify that I’m not talking strictly about this tutorial, this is just the one that made me think “oh no, again”)

    • http://www.bentateonline.com Ben Tate

      I was also thinking “oh no, again” as I was reading your comment. I can see that you have nothing constructive to say what so ever. While you’re welcome to your opinions about this tutorial, and our site in general. I don’t see how any of what you said is constructive to anyone. The point of this site is to help people learn, so if you have any constructive criticism to share, then by all means feel free to post your thoughts. That is after all what the comment system is for. We obviously can’t please everyone with every tutorial we post, but to state that we are all about quantity, rather then quality is not only ridiculous, but an insult to not only the author of this tutorial, but all of our authors in general. Not to mention myself as an author and one of the editors of this site.

      We publish content that we feel is a benefit to our community, and all of our authors work extremely hard to create the content you see here. They take time out of their busy schedules to share their techniques in an attempt to help others improve their own skills… I’m not sure exactly what your problem is with this particular tutorial, as you never stated a reason for trashing on it. In any case Antonio, the author of this tutorial is a very experienced professional artist, and his techniques are not only effective, but production ready. We feel it’s a benefit to our site, and hope that many of our users find it helpful.

      It’s very easy to criticize other peoples work, but a lot harder to contribute something useful. So if you would like to help out the community by creating your own tutorial. Then by all means please feel free to submit any of your own ideas to us. We’d be more then happy to take a look at any tutorial concepts you have. Of course if this site’s content is not up to your standards quality wise, then I’m sure you’ll be able to find another site that is more to your liking.

      • Steve

        Sorry to interrupt, but you say “and his techniques are not only effective, but production ready”. Would you in all honesty submit that Jittery/flickery render to a client?

  • http://www.therocketpanda.com therocketpanda

    Hi Ben, the point of my comment wasn’t to be mean or criticize this tutorial in particular, as I stated, but if you felt that way, I apologize, it wasn’t mean to be like that.
    Then again I wasn’t saying that Antonio Cerri isn’t good at his job nor complained to the text to speech dub, he must have his reasons for that.

    I just wanted to point out the fact that the quality on cgtuts is somehow oscillating between really nice tutorials, wich gives you very important notions (even some professional tricks and secrets) and other ones that are a little too basic and seem to be done just for the sake of putting up “another one”.

    All that said, if you wrote “oh no, again” to my post it must be evident that it’s more than one people sharing the same thought I have.
    I would just be a bit more strict on the tutorial selection.

    I’d be pleased to do some tutorial for cgtuts if the offer is valid, I have little if no spare time, but doing it for you would spur me to do that.

    • http://www.bentateonline.com Ben Tate

      Hey man,

      Thanks for your response and I fully understand the point you are trying to make. If I came off sounding like an a**hole then I also apologize! That was not my intention at all, I was simply trying to defend our authors and content. It’s absolutely fine to criticize our tutorials, or site in general. We actually encourage constructive criticism on here, as it not only gives the authors direct feedback on what they can improve on, but also gives us an idea of what people like and don’t like.

      As for an oscillation between tutorials, this is something that is unavoidable as every author has their own way of doing things and their own unique teaching styles, so there’s always going to be some variation between tutorials. I can assure you we strive to provide the highest quality tutorials possible and reject many, many tutorials because the teaching process is not up to our standards, even though the final result may be excellent.

      A large amount of our authors do not speak English natively and are trying extremely hard to provide detailed explanations of an already complicated subject. We make every attempt to ensure every tutorial posted is as streamlined and easy to follow as possible. In some cases this requires heavy editing.

      The users response to our content is always something we value and use to improve the site overall, (this is one of the reasons we have added the rating system) unfortunately there is no way to know how a particular tutorial will be received by the community until is has been posted. We as editors use our best judgement to determine what content we feel will be a valuable addition to the site and our users.

      As for creating a tutorial yourself, absolutely! That was a valid offer and was not said sarcastically. We encourage everyone to participate if they feel they have something helpful to contribute. Cheers!

  • http://www.crrntn.com Antonio Cerri
    Author

    Thank you all for your comments.
    I just try to explain some techniques and how to create some complex materials, to use them in the scene.
    I always try to improve the technical explanation. Obviously I do not have the presumption to believe that my tutorials can like everyone.
    I just hope I can be of help to those who are not familiar with the materials in glass with caustics.

    Cheers!

  • Kevin

    Great tutorial! and great setting materials.

  • exondus

    Hey Ben,

    I can’t seem to locate the Illustrator file in the premium section, please post it. And um… question: Antonio why do you use the speech dub thing?

    • http://www.bentateonline.com Ben Tate

      Hey Exondus,

      To find it,

      - First login into your premium account.
      - Click on “Cgtuts+” on the right side of the screen.
      - At the top of the page, click on “Source Files”
      - The glass logo tut will be at the top of the list.
      - Click on the title to download.

      Cheers!

  • Jimbo

    I think that newbies like me always have something positive to achieve and to learn even from not so professional or advanced tuts. And if you search for perfect just go and pay some of the pros out there, the market is always looking for customers, this is the free stuff, it is not the point of whether it is text-to-speech or flickering in the final rendering, if it has something to teach you just grab it and go away with it, and be thankful that someone already did the hard working for you to have it on the table. Consider that the guy who did the tutorial is smart enough to teach you but unable to speak the language fluently enough, yet he is conscious enough not to bother you with, a difficult for you to understand, accent. And of course he may not have the latest machine with 128 cores to render at maximum GI settings and say “Oh, ok, it is not good enough, let’s try with those incredible settings”. Some people just don’t realize that there are guys out there who like to offer, but are not assholes to keep it for themselves, and finally have to deal with rude and offensive comments from unsatisfied kids who just happen to have everything and still learned nothing about doing something on their own. All I had to say, thank you Antonio, keep on rocking man, try not to listen the immature words. cheers.

    • http://www.crrntn.com Antonio Cerri
      Author

      Thank you for your message!
      I’m trying to improve my English every day.
      When that day comes, and that day will come!
      I will not have the problem of explaining complex steps in a clear and straightforward.
      In my philosophy, the images done well speak louder than words.
      I’m preparing new ideas for new tutorials, and I’m sure many will appreciate my work.

      Thank Again
      Antonio C.

  • Luky

    I liked the tutorial.
    Glass effects are not that easy to achieve sometimes so i appreciate Your tut Antonio :)
    Thank You.

  • krsithian

    what kind of sources used there

  • jonas

    mhhh thats sad.
    watched 40 seconds and quit just because this terrible voice.
    hope u can talk real soon.

    greetings

  • IGOR

    I have a program Cinema 4D R13, but it does not plug Mogaph 2! Where I can download it ?!?!?!? Prompt please!

    • KT

      it should be there else go under help and search it or look if youve been creating a new design for ur cinema

  • Cathy

    I thought this was really interesting and I was able to work through it and create my own design using the techniques. It would be very helpful to me if you explained a little bit of the why while you were doing it. But overall I enjoyed this.

  • http://www.pixelsonit.com Pixelsonit

    At first the Text to speech was a bit confusing. But and the end ALL that matters is what you are sharing with the rest of us…. knowledge! I really like ALL of your tutorials. Keep it up!!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/khalilzip Zip OffRed

    i’ll try it! insh’alah.