3D Blender 3D Typography - JR

[Eggy]

I saw this on the net and I thought 'I can do that.'

That wasn't so easy to grasp the concept

 

[gedstar]

Very nicely done Lambert

 

[Eggy]

Thanks Ged.
I started with a cylinder set at the right depht, knife project to remove the center and just keeping a quarter.

 

[IamSam]

Like you I really like creative 3D typography! Excellent work Lambert!

 

[Eggy]

Thanks Sam.

It was a brainteaser at first and the finishing touch could be better but for me its like breaking a code; once done the message isn't important anymore...

 

[chrisdesign]

Very cool job Lambert.
I honestly have no idea how I could do this. :banghead:

 

[Eggy]

Thanks Chris.

Well, I made a cylinder at the right depht, used knife project to cut out the center leaving an open circle.
Then I deleted everything except a quarter of that circle. I filled the open space with faces. Made a copy of that circle to use in the other bends (I still don't know how to make those the right way.)
With that part I started to compose.
Extruding the ends, using a copy of the bends and so on...

It took me some time to get it too...

 

[Pipsmom]

Very smart and well,done!

 

[chrisdesign]

Here is my attempt.

 

[Eggy]

Great work Chris!

All you have to do is contemplate an existing work and reflect on how to do it with the techniques you know.
I give you a hint, you did the rest.
I'm sure that you would eventually figure out how to do it...

 

[chrisdesign]

Thanks Lambert.
I started with a plane, extruded it, and applied 'Spin' to get a 90 degree bend. I used the same technique, when I created my bend pipes.
Still, this was not an easy job at all.

 

[Eggy]

Thats a different approach I'll have to try myself.

But its fun (and sometime irritating) to 'crack the code' after looking at the example for the first time and thinking 'how am I going to do this?'.

 

[Eggy]

Variation on the theme.

Cleaned up and welded the double vertices, removed the inside faces and made it from glass:

 

[chrisdesign]

Wow...this looks really terrific Lambert!
It looks like a 'real' glass object.
Great work!!!

 

[Eggy]

Thanks Chris.

Since I used a different method as you (stitching the curbes and straight parts together) I had to remove the 'double vertices' and remove the inside faces since they show when using glass material.