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Modeling and Rendering a Glossy Battery Icon in Cinema 4D

By May 2, 2013No Comments

Stefan Surmabojov walks through creating a glossy battery icon in Cinema 4D showing the modeling process and creating shaders for that glossy and shiny rendered look.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a nice looking, glossy 3D smartphone battery icon using Cinema 4D

Glossy icons, can easily be done in a vector application like Illustrator, making the end result resolution independent, however, a great base to start is to create the lighting and reflection details in a 3D program like Cinema 4D.

Stefan builds the model with simple parametric primitives, and also walks through the lighting of the scene, and finally rendering. Check out the tutorial for Creating a Glossy Battery Icon here.

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3D, VFX, design, and typography. Twenty year veteran instructor in all things computer graphics.