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[RFD]

Hey all! just a new update on some projects ive been working on, been a little slow but fun as hell trying new ways to make my signatures stand out and be different from the rest!

ENJOY!

 

 

 

P.S. PM me in game @RFD or on Forums if you would like some work done!

[Patta]

Wonder who ordered that

[Sheep]

Looks good, nice job.

[LAST RIDE]

Great job man.

[RFD]

@lets funk @7 Psychodual @Sheep  thanks lads!

[Jedzio]

Looks really nice, what do you use to render the letters?

[RFD]

@Jedzio I use cinema4d with vray and use textures usually from buying them from packs.

[Dumbshit]

Whilst buying materials is a nice way of having proffesional made materials, It's better to try and make them from scratch.

 

Making materials can be a bit bumpy but if you get a hang of how to making proper materials, you can make quite some sick ass stuff with it. I personally work with making projections/screenshots of how possibly a game can look thanks to making the proper materials for proper 3d models with the help of both C4D & Blender. It's quite a rabbit-hole when you start getting into material-creating.

 

As for your overall 3D-text work like the "Realists" one. I suggest you look into also making a custom-lightroom so your text looks more smooth & realistic with proper shadowing, this can also bring out the beauty with materials. Also when making animated signatures & rendering them, it is best to add a background to it, similar to the forum background so it gives the illusion of it being transparent. By adding a background to animated signatures you're basically forcing the .GIF file to compress the background more instead of the text, which makes the text less "sharp" compared to the original 3d model.

 

Overall good work as always RFD, glad to see you active again :)

[RFD]

@Dumbshit Great tips, I actually make my own lightrooms myself, and I usually use an HDRI effect to most my lightrooms, I buy preset materials for my 3d work but I atler almost of of the materials myself as I like to get them as close to the image I have in my mind. The reason why realists one looks like way is because i had to downgrade the size of it since the Alora forums only accepts signature of animated gif quality under 20mbs from what ive found, also I will never add a background to my signatures as that means people can only use them on the forums where I want them to be able top use them on whatever platform they see fit....

But that is just personal preference, I also think that is an easier way to get around the whole transparency issue when it comes to saving as gif file.

[Pim]

Looking good mate! Keep up the work!