A Work in Progress: Tranquility



This guide was made for entry:
Tranquility
In Contest:
perfume bottle


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This is my original design

Creation of Tranquility: Step 1

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I created a path around the edge to bring into illustrator.

Creation of Tranquility: Step 2

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After saving my path as illustrator v8 I brought into Cinema 4D and placed in a Lathe Nurbs.

Creation of Tranquility: Step 3

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I used the scale tool to manipulate my bottle then made selections to extrude.

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I used a Twist Deformer to further manipulate the bottle

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Here I have created a stopper for my bottle. It is a sphere with a selection extruded and tapered.

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This was the name that I decided to go with. The Typeface is Bickham Script Pro.

Creation of Tranquility: Step 7

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I wanted my box to have a sense of realism so I added some more text to indicate the volume and type of scent.

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Because my bottle has swirls, I wanted to continue the theme onto the box.

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My box is just a cube with rounded edges. Here you can see the materials added.

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I wanted a background that looked like cascading silky material after a lot of messing about with clothilde tags I thought I would give the Loft Nurbs a try. Here are 3 splines.

Creation of Tranquility: Step 11

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My 3 splines placed in a Loft Nurbs.

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This was placed in a HyperNurbs object and I tweaked a few faces.

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I got my bottle and packaging into position and placed a camera.

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I added some small Planes with a luminance material around the bottle. I also added 2 spotlights and 1 omni. I also used compositing tags to specify which items to light.

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I discovered this fantastic tutorial by Alexander Alexandrov on creating your own hdri maps. So I thought I would give it a go.
The tutorial is well worth a look

http://www.amateurmedia.net/create-hdri-in-cinema-4d/

Creation of Tranquility: Step 16
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I made a new material, coloured it with my hdri map and added to a sky object in my scene.
I rendered with AO and GI. I tried to keep my settings low and my render time was just over 1 hour 10 mins.
I took my image into Photoshop to manipulate my images colour and give some contrast. I added my logo to the bottle in Photoshop also.


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My original colour.

Creation of Tranquility: Step 18

Final result

Creation of Tranquility: Final Result

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Comments

avatar layerstack

Stunning sbs..i have a lot to learn!!

(5 years and 3108 days ago)
avatar Warlock
Warlock [banned] says:

Great SBS....like the original colour better tho.

(5 years and 3107 days ago)