3D Lighting Effects Tutorial

Yeah, another one of these tutorials and I’m gonna look for a new job/project.

Tutorial from Transfuschian.

The hardest part about this tutorial is cutting the extra lines before you apply color to your background. It took me several hours before I figured out the perspective and which lines I had to cut. Tip: select the letter on which you are removing extra lines, and if none of the back lines extend into the space of the letter on the right, then you’re done. If there are lines that do extend into the the letter on the right, select the path of the line, and cut the parts that are in the next letter. That was probably made it more confusing but it’s easier to show than to tell.

I got lazy with the mesh grid so the highlighting effects didn’t turn out very well. A tip for this step: make more grids with smaller spaces so you can control the color and highlighting effect better.

On a side note, because of the futuristic theme of the tutorial, I had the “Space Oddity” (Cat Power’s cover of David Bowie) Lincoln MKZ commercial stuck in my head while I was working on this.