Help making a car badge style logo
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Hello,
I'm involved in a sliding wardrobe door company, and it's going well but we really need to get a decent brand image going.
We've decided we'd like the logo to be an emblem similar to a car badge.
I've looked on google images for ideas of visual style,
This is too unrealistic, too 2D etc. http://www.room39car.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BMW_badge_logo.jpgIf I modeled and rendered it, I'm worried it'd look a bit too "physical" and end up looking like this:
http://img.diytrade.com/cdimg/1415586/20990181/0/1303921410/BMW_82MM_New_3D_Version_With_2_Pins_High_Quality_Car_Badges_Car_Emblems.jpgReally a happy medium is something like this:
http://www.artcam.co.kr/artcampro/gallery-images/artcam/pro_jagbadge.jpgI'm just looking for any tips on how to create this, at the moment presuming sketchup would be involved.
Thanks in advance
Mike
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I think Photoshop would be faster. But you mightn't have it?
The second image result is due to lighting position which you have full control over if you render.
Make sure you go really OTT with the segments to get a super smooth mesh.
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No I don't have PS
And even if I died, I haven't had any more experience than a free trial so wouldn't be much use...
Hmm maybe I can get a nice even result with rendering. Do you have any tips for actually modeling it with SU?mike
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Free 'Gimp' is a good alternative to PS...
Are you saying you want a 2d 'sticker' to put onto your products, and/or a graphic 'logo' for use in documents, web-sites etc ?
OR do you want a physical small 3d 'badge' that you can glue onto the inside of a door etc [my fitted-kitchen has that].
OR perhaps even both ??You'll get much better effects with an image editor tool than rendering a SKP; but if you want really want/need a 3d object you'll have to model it [Tip: make it x10 or even x100 larger that real-size to avoid the know issues with creating tiny faces...]
You need to be clear about what you want to end up with; if it requires someone else to make/print things for you the you must speak with them about what they'll want from you, and what they can and can't d... this will avoid abortive effort...
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Hey TIG,
sorry if I wasn't clear. I really just want a graphic. It's a new company and just want to give it a classy logo.
Who knows one day maybe we'll get badges made but that's not the issue at the moment.I have gimp but have only used it on a VERY light level to do the odd adjustment. Never for creating graphics from scratch.
The badge I have in mind is similar in quality to that third jaguar one I posted. Realistic and metallic but still "flat" and logo like. I'm not sure how I'd create an image in that realistic style in 2D
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Without an image to look at its hard to suggest ideas. But layer styles in GIMP would make light work of it.
Then mapped map image to mesh and render with studio HDRI.
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Ah right thanks for the tip. I'm a complete newbie with graphics so wouldn't even have known what to google! Now I can look into layer styles though.
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Hi I only found this recently while looking to make some seamless textures, it's impressive and free. have a look at the tutorials for Peacock.
john
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Never heard of that company before. cheers driven
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