Cool 3d Logo

9NOV/090

Cool 3d Logo

Tutorial Details

• Program: Adobe Illustrator CS4 and who carez???
• Difficulty: Beginner/ 
• Estimated Completion: Half hour
• In this post I'll show you process of creating 3d logo for some 'company'.

3d logo

1. Draw some simple object, like this:

object

2. Select logo ( or whatever this is, but imagine it's a logo ),
and put some lighter color, like blue ( for easier rendering, or to see what's rendering ).

select logo

3. Then while selected, go to Effects >> 3d >> Extrude & Bevel

extrude & bevel

4. Click OK, and while object is selected ( logo ), go to Object >> Expand Appearance

5. Okay, we expanded it now, but it's still in one group, so we have to ( while selected -.- ) go to Object >> Ungroup

Or you can select object and press Shift + Ctrl + G few times, that will ungroup it also.

6. Next step, it's ungrouped and we can select any parts of it.

7. Lets create some gradient, like this:

logo gradient

8. Apply gradient to every section, surface, bevel etc

more gradient

9. And final looks like this:

3d logo final

Thats it!