• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Fancy 3D Banner

  Posted by Ryan Kehn on May 14, 2009 at 5:19 am

  Hi All,

  I have a logo with one of those ubiquitous banners in it that I’m trying to soup up a bit. I’m looking for something more along the lines of the banner in the attached logo, but I’m having trouble figuring out the modeling. I don’t think it’s as simple as an extruded spline, but can’t really get the hang of it. Anybody have any suggestions??

  Thanks for taking a look!

  Ryan
  

  Phil Biggs replied 15 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Phil Biggs

  May 14, 2009 at 7:52 pm

  There are several ways to achieve this, the most obvious being sweep nurbs along a spline. In this example though, I used a long, thin, subdivided plane, moved the points and edges to get the shape of the banner, then dropped it into a hypernurbs object. The thickness was achieved using the Explosion FX deformer using only the cluster thickness parameter.
  Cheers,
  Phil
  
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  Elias Huch

  January 26, 2011 at 9:24 pm

  Could you please elaborate on this? I am struggling immensely!
  Thanks

  Elias Huch
  Motion Graphics Designer
  Reelvizion Productions
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  Phil Biggs

  January 27, 2011 at 6:40 am

  As with most modeling, nine times out of ten it’s better to start of with primitives. Hope this helps:
  https://www.philipbiggs.com/quick_ribbon_tutorial.jpg
  Cheers,
  Phil
  Senior Broadcast Editor
  Disney Cruise Line

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