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Aetuts+ Hollywood Movie Title Series – Thor

Aetuts+ Hollywood Movie Title Series – Thor

on Dec 5th 2011 with 23 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects and Cinema 4d
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Run Time: 37:06 min
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This entry is part 21 of 30 in the series Hollywood Movie Titles

Hollywood Movie Titles

Continuing our Aetuts+ Hollywood Movie Title Series, today’s tutorial will explain how to make the Thor flying logo. We’ll start by covering the 3D part as we model and create the logo animation in Cinema 4d. This is where we’ll see how the textures (Bump, Normal) can create interesting engraving effects. From there, we’ll proceed over into After Effects so we can stylize and composite all the elements together.

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Discussion 23 Comments

  1. Anthony says:
    December 5, 2011 at 9:36 am

    When is the dark knight coming

    Reply
  2. Marten says:
    December 5, 2011 at 11:22 am

    Nice tutorial. Going to do that in my free time. Only downside is the computer voice. I actually like human voices better.

    Reply
  3. Evangelos says:
    December 5, 2011 at 11:42 am

    A text animation created in a 3d program…
    Composited with some pretty standard (and primitive) techniques in AE…
    Really, how many more of these “Hollywood Movie Title Series” do we need?

    Make something more creative please!

    Reply
  4. Murat says:
    December 5, 2011 at 12:35 pm

    Everyone used vote and The Dark Knight get best vote still no any action :(

    Reply
  5. Chris says:
    December 5, 2011 at 4:16 pm

    I did a Thor-like tutorial but all in After Effects, including the 3D text, a while back. You can check it out here: http://vimeo.com/20820509

    I got to say though, the real 3D text from this tutorial does look good!

    Reply
  6. Michael says:
    December 5, 2011 at 4:23 pm

    When is Conan coming out… i kinda need to do something like that

    Reply
  7. M.Puvan says:
    December 5, 2011 at 11:04 pm

    Thanks for the tutorial…awesome effect =)

    Reply
  8. VinhSon Nguyen says:
    December 6, 2011 at 2:20 am

    Great tutorial, I see you’re getting more elaborate and explaining more each tutorial! Love it! :)

    Reply
  9. felipe says:
    December 7, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    what’s name this font please…

    Reply
  10. Bilal says:
    December 7, 2011 at 11:18 pm

    Antonio great tutorial mate! One thing though is there a tutorial on how to get the text at the beging or a tutorial that you can make reference to that uses the same technique? I’m quite new to C4D

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    • Antonio Cerri says:
      December 8, 2011 at 1:31 pm
      Author

      Hi Bilal, Welcome on board ;)

      You can use like a reference, the final frame title trailer,
      or original wallpaper with logo from official web site.
      the choice is yours.
      Since you are new with Cinema 4d.
      My advice is always start with the simplest movie title.
      Next, step after step increases, the degree of difficulty.

      Reply
  11. Bobby says:
    December 8, 2011 at 2:16 am

    Hi Antonio,

    Nevermind the people who say they want something more “creative”, most of the time when I click back to their website, their work is very very amateur and non-professional.

    I learn something new every tutorial, thank you. Don’t change.

    Now, I was wondering about your textures- specifically the engravings. How did you get the normal maps?

    Did you render out the normal and alpha maps yourself?

    Thanks!

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    • Antonio Cerri says:
      December 8, 2011 at 1:14 pm
      Author

      Hi Bobby, thank again for your comment,

      For obtain the normal map texture,
      there are many interesting tools, ranging from plug-in for PSD and AE,
      and there are also software’s for extract the normal map directly from a image.
      The problem is: What do you run (OS) on your computer?
      However, on both platforms there are excellent tools
      (commercial and open source).
      You find on web search: normal map tool + OS used ;)

      For final rendering, the normal map texture, is with all the other textures
      to get the final result that is seen in the tutorial.
      For alpha textures, just create two flat materials: white and black,
      and apply them on the parts of the logo and make only this rendering, alternating:
      start cap, body central, end caps, bevel, etc.

      Good Work!

      Reply
      • Chris says:
        January 4, 2012 at 2:21 pm

        Antonio,

        Great tutorial! But I have a question. When you referred to “false concentric paths” in the beginning near the 2:00 mark, how did you create them so evenly? When you stated you kept to borders around “2 units” in some areas, where are the units talking about? Are you manually moving the points? I went to “selection”, “select all” to highlight the points, but can’t figure out how to move all of the points evenly. The only other way I know how is by exporting the paths in Illustrator. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

        Thanks!

        God Bless,

        Chris

  12. Ardin says:
    December 19, 2011 at 2:08 pm

    Couldn’t you do the logos with photoshop or illustrator’s 3d text at least. 4d is soooo expensive!

    Reply

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