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Where to start making graffiti style ribbon letter
OK, I’m in the process of designing some graffiti that I want to turn into 3D, this is where I’m up to. The letters are POE so far, but I’m wondering where to start to get this sort of organic, flowing effect to follow the shape of the letters that I’m making, can anyone give me any assistance please?
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There are a couple of ribbon tutorials out there, and at least one on the cow by Ahoron Rabinowitz. I imagine you can use Align to Spline or the Spline Effector to animate it..
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you could scan the image then make a work path of it in photoshop then export paths to illustrator this file will then open in c4d and then like jeremy said align to spline might be a lot of splines though, im sure theres a simpler way but you could give it a go.
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I’m guessing you are going to want to push this farther than is going to be possible with an extruded spline. I’d probably scan the letters and model by them hand (using a HyperNurb for smoothness) if you do need a ’round all over’ look like the drawing seems to indicate
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Yes I think I am looking for that round all over look Brian, I was struggling to find anything useful with extruded splines. I thought maybe their would be some way of maybe using sweeping or extruded nurbs to follow a spline and maybe modify the thickness and shape at different sections of the spline.
Is something like that possible?
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I have no idea if this will work, but I wonder if you could clone a bunch of circle shaped splines along a path, and then use loft nurbs to fill out the shape. This way you could tweak your thickness and shape, and still have the “round all over?” look.. May be worth a quick experiment anyway.
Good luck with it, and please show us the results when you get it worked out. I’m interested to see it!
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With SweepNurbs you can use a rail spline (a third spline inside the SweepNurb) to control the scale of the spline being swept along the other one. You can’t control (change) the shape though. LoftNurbs might be better since you can control shape and size with the splines you put into the Loft.
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