Photoshop..... how do they?

[dazappa]

You can make a simple coin model in blender in less than 20 seconds. Just go to Add -> Mesh -> Cylinder and resize it to your liking. It's the texturing and animating that will bite you. In any event, it is more learning. With Photoshop or Gimp, you could try playing with their perspective tools to get a kind of spinning or flipping effect.

[Chesso]

I won't need to animate it in a 3D environment, I only need some 2D images from different angles for the effect (so therefore I can make basic 3D object, rotate it export image, rotate export etc).

I have a basic coin in Photoshop 3D gold and shiny enough, found a tutorial and how to merge some text onto it (so when I spin it should do it's thing), but I am not sure how to go about the extrusions on front and back a gold coin normally has and more importantly those lines all the way around the edges, what's the normal way to get that effect? ( I assume it's similar in most 3D editors).

[code_glitch]

If I remember correctly I believe there is a plug in for Paint.Net that does just that... It should be under one of the plug-in packs on their forums. Might be Pyros but not sure. But since Paint.Net is free you could give it a spin I guess.

[Chesso]

Well I have my perfect 3D coin with text textures I made, lighting, even those lines on the side which I finally figured out how to turn into a texture and thin them out.

Now for some reason it started as a repousse object and now I can no longer edit it as a repousse object which means I cannot apply the final extrusions *KABLAM GOES PHOTOSHOP!!!"

[Ingemar]

My thought about Photoshop artists are:

- They have a lot of training, so they know their tools better than we do.
- They also have more training in drawing in general, on paper etc, so they are used to projecting 3D ideas onto 2D in their minds.
- They have Wacom boards.
- The artwork is their work so they put much time and effort into it. And patience. They try and try again.

I have worked together with Photoshop professionals, and they can whip up nice things in no time using tricks I never knew existed, but they also fine-tune details, almost at pixel level.

So their "magic" is very much training and spending time on the tool. At least from what I have seen.