Recently I was asked to come up with an idea for a show and as seems to be the case lately, had very little time to develop it. Click on the thumbnail and the first picture you’ll see are my initial ideas created in Illustrator. The second one is better than the first but simply making the T and A capitals in a script font (Scriptina) wasn’t working, it needed more style. So I turned to Cinema 4D and Mograph Spline Wrap feature. This was the first time to try Spline Wrap and I found it very easy to transform the T and A into flowing ribbons, using the Scriptina letters as a guide for the shape of the ribbons. Download the project file and take a look. Download C4D Project
Here are some helpful links to learn more about Spline Wrap, let me know if you have more:
- Cineversity (Ko Maruyama): Text on a path
- C4D Cafe: Spline Wrap Review
11 Responses to this post
March 14, 2009 at 5:50 am |
Hi JD,
wow, looks much better than the original! When you are finished with this job, could you show us then the finalversion the client was going for? Would be interesting to follow that process.
March 14, 2009 at 12:25 pm |
that looks killer man… you should totally do a tutorial on that technique… seems like everyone wants a good tut on how to make ribbons…
March 14, 2009 at 3:38 pm |
John,
Any chance you can do a tutorial on this one?
-C
March 14, 2009 at 9:09 pm |
Ha, I only just started using it and you guys want a tutorial! There are a few tutorials floating around the net, one by Ko Maruyama.
March 15, 2009 at 5:00 am |
Ok John,
I completely understand…how do we learn if we never try!!! I went ahead and took a stab at it..
http://www.ribbon.kreativedomain.com/
Maybe you can tell me why my ribbon looks so terrible????? At first I used a plane for the ribbon but it looked flat so then I used a box and it looked better….but it still looks nothing like what you have done!!!!!
-C
March 16, 2009 at 4:51 pm |
Hi John,
Re:Tina Arena ribbon comp in Maxon.
Looks great. I luv your work.
Don’t know why they didn’t go with it.
I would luv to use that effect for a conference promo.
Thanks
Dee
April 1, 2009 at 5:24 am |
I really want to be able to do this … any chance for a quick small tut …
July 15, 2009 at 3:23 am |
Way cool.
August 8, 2009 at 8:31 am |
Please create a tutorial for this
December 20, 2009 at 3:15 am |
How can make a present box ribbon, like this?
http://thumb10.shutterstock.com.edgesuite.net/display_pic_with_logo/72135/72135,1222800292,6/stock-vector-white-present-box-sealed-with-red-ribbon-for-special-events-vector-illustration-18189484.jpg
June 29, 2010 at 2:08 am |
http://www.maillinks.de/fBmzEYbvvUpN/Schleife.c4d.zip
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