Make 3d Logos from 2d images | Blender 2.8

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This time we are working on building a 3d logo from a 2d image using hard surface modelling techniques with the subdivision surface modifier and other useful tools. With a focus on the topology flow.
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[@alexkillsdie]

If anyone is stuck on the MERGE step at the beginning, its just M, not Alt + M

[@jd404notfound]

thank you very much

[@VK-yn4tf]

thnxx

[@walterdeinzer1911]

Thank you.

[@MrBoumbastic15]

@Tony Maden just click right button on the vertices and choose Merg then

[@lika7464]

tnx it's really helped me

[@jaatrader]

when people get stuck and someone solves it in comments, the 'thankyous' that pour in are the purest, from the bottom of the heart of a beginner 3d artist, such a beautiful thing, this community is so nice

[@nothingishere70]

Sir i am unable to join tow vertices in blender please help me sir, and tell me that how i can join this

[@_S_P_A_C_E_M_A_N_]

@@nothingishere70 press m. It's no longer alt+m

[@ryanhare3551]

Thank you

[@iamthekaverik]

you could also select the two and press F for fill @@nothingishere70

[@northwestmontananow8886]

"But yours is going to look lovely." That part gave me a huge smile. I've probably watched a dozen different tutorials on this subject so far, and yours has, by far, been the clearest, most helpful and most educational of all of them. Everything you do, the cadence, the level of information and how it's presented, the right amount of repetition... you should teach teaching.

[@adri-h6n]

Very hard to follow not easy

[@mamin3152]

Cool tip: don't use alt+m to merge anymore, that will split it. the new keybind is just M

[@iamthekaverik]

what's the diff between merge and fill

[@danieleliahushapiro4280]

Goddamn it you are a good teacher you managed to extract at least a dozen lessons from one goddamn logo. It shows that you think this out really really thoroughly. Not everyone can do that. Not even ian hubert or blender guru or captain desillusion.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@Sophistry0001]

@@grabbitt Ian Hubert would have made this a 45 second speed run where he does something super janky that turns out to work super well.

[@Sophistry0001]

@@starchamber7700 his stuff works really well imo when you are already very familiar with how blender works and he's just showing you a cool trick without having to show all the details step by step

[@aehnkantos]

I am a complete beginner and I went way overboard with the design of the shape I was working with. It's a testament to your knowledge that everything worked out how I wanted it regardless.

[@SaffronBunny]

Where was this a week ago when I was making a logo for school :D Lots of helpful tips though. Thanks for sharing this.

[@kaydubsthekoifish]

Thanks for this being here now when I'm doing the same thing.

[@wontolla1962]

i have seen diff tutorials for Doing the same effect or shapes and each Person has their own techniques , when i saw the Name of the Video my mind thought about SVG but Grant is doing another technique and its very Illustrative and great done , i see so many comments like now many people began to learn blender and now they know all and correcting the teacher , if you use adobe and svg excellent , but come on guys , If you already are that good in blender why watching tutorials ? Good Video Grant . yes i watch them cause im learning blender .

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@Lucas-wp1ju]

I spent hours to figure out how to keep a good topology with such a logo. It's crazy how a simple shape in 2D can be hard to make in 3D with good topology

[@goku21youtub]

sharp corners and spikes are never easy

[@simonk.2969]

I am an intermediate blender user... and I have come to learn triangles and ngons are not bad... Infact they are useful when you want to kill loops

[@Fludd-Stop]

I was initially really confused as to why this video was in the Get Good at Blender playlist since it wasn't a Beginner's Exercise video, but I am EXTREMELY thankful that it was. Trying to wrap your head around topology is extremely difficult, especially as a beginner, and even though I thought the process would be pretty straight forward, I struggled super hard on this tutorial, but learned probably the most from it. Thank you, Grant!!

[@95TurboSol]

If anyone did this and extruded with E but ended up with a hollow model just reselect all the vertices and press F to fill and it will be a solid 3d object

[@touchyfeelyo]

What a fantastic way to do this, i would of never thought to merge down a cube to a single vert, and then on top of it proceed to extrude it. Brilliant!

[@o1497]

I used to grab a plane and delete 3 out of the four vertices and proceed from there

[@TheInternetwatcher]

This was actually a fun little exercise. I'm finally starting to comprehend edge flow and the use of quads a little better. I still don't fully understand but this went a long way to help me visualize it better. Thanks Grant!

[@iamthekaverik]

How is it now for you?

[@joshuarox1739]

FASTER WAY would be: vectorizing the image first in Adobe Illustrator then export as an SVG file. Import the SVG into Blender then convert to mesh. Remesh to make quads, then apply the Remesh. Extrude. Done :)

[@grabbitt]

the remesh is not the best quality unless you want to go very high poly

[@yezzzsir]

Been looking for a way to build 3d terrain maps from artwork I had been working on. Think this will be a great help , thanks Grant!

[@korfian]

Turning a self-designed surface (vector) into 3d was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much for making it that simple.

[@iamthekaverik]

me too

[@pleochroic]

This turned out to also work brilliantly for cleaning up text, where Blender makes a real dog's breakfast out of the top and bottom faces when converting to mesh. Instead I converted without those faces and used this method. Thanks!

[@TihocanRiley]

Thank you so much !!! I'm a complete beginner with Blender and I succeeded creating a whole airline emblem :-)

[@victorAgain00]

make 3d logos from 2d images: Proceeds to using default cube right in front of audience!!!

[@damionblake9122]

anyone else gasp when this happened?

[@Amessenger.]

pressing even and flip works nicely with the edge loop in the logo

[@faradaysinfinity]

This is applicable to way more than logos. Geez man you taught this so well thank you

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@xpdatabase1197]

Just a little tip, there is a shortcut for making creases just press shift + e to do creases :)) also you can dissolve edges/faces/vertecies by pressing ctrl + x :))

[@grabbitt]

thanks

[@xpdatabase1197]

@@grabbitt no problem :))

[@arieljones2652]

one more thing. At 2:17, I cant drag it and I am doing what you said. I am not sure if its because I have a different blender, but it looks the exact same as yours.

[@Seawolf159]

Nice tutorial. Blender can make such simple things looks so beautiful in the hands of someone like you!

[@KaiBuskirk]

Had to rewatch this again! it’s I very important workflow

[@danieleliahushapiro4280]

Funny that, I would have used curve (bezier for example) then change it into a mesh.... well played, Grant!

[@grabbitt]

yes that would work. I find this a little easier :)

[@BrainSlugs83]

I thought it was going to use a height map add-on or something. This is better. :)

[@paulbottomley42]

I don't know but it feels like a bezier curve would work better for a less spiky shape, and just drawing the shape might work well for a pointier thing like this. Maybe a mix of the two to get pointy bits and perfect curves for the curvy bits?

[@sikantharbasha4827]

Plzz make a tutorial on how to make that exact intro in the begginning

[@pyrotechnick420]

After trying SVG files and complicated node set ups I finally realized that doing it by hand is the best way to make images 3d. Thank you

[@yusrighouse]

oh man that turn HDRI to invisible is something i wanted to know for weeks! :D

[@epixerty]

no cubes were harmed during this tutorial

[@VFXRevolutionTutorials]

Use adobe illustrator to create an svg from the image (with three clicks). Import the svg into blender. Extrude the svg. Clean up. Quick perfect 3d logo ;)

[@apofis3d]

Or Trace in Inkscape

[@cpitanker7031]

Bruh

[@georgemackinnon2416]

thank you very much for the useful tips, I was trying to find a .blend model for a discord logo for hours but couldnt find one. I looked up a how to make logos on yt and found your vid. It helped alot, thank you.

[@djtimoent.1710]

I love how you said I’m not going through the dashboard and tools and then still name them lol a teacher can never not teach 😂😂🤣🤣💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

[@grabbitt]

true :)

[@djtimoent.1710]

Grant Abbitt ......do you know anyone selling full body trackers

[@rebelllion8853]

CRTL + RMB instead of e to extrude and move ! GREAAAT ! Thank you again !

[@wyyvern8]

what about if you have to do separate snips like for the eyes in the discord logo?

[@grabbitt]

do them as separate shapes

[@mohitsemwal7050]

Blender can do anything🔥

[@dejilawal276]

grants mehn you are good, your lectures helps me pull through............there's a way you take your time to give detailed Explanations..... keep up the good works

[@zeke2576]

youre the reason why the game i made in roblox is blowing up!! thx!!!!

[@shinigamisecret]

Whats weird for me is after doing this theres just a random floating vetex (hopefully thats what you call the dots) on the side that I can't remove. The rotation and size is also dependent on that singular point. Edit: Figured it out. It was the point of origin. If you click the menu object -> set origin -> you can then select where you want your origin Alternatively you can click the options menu and check the origin check box and click g to move it around

[@bracixongrafik5248]

this tutorial is very good, not only you teached me about making logos, and you teached me how to shade better

[@TWHICH]

Really Good Explanation! Thank You

[@TWHICH]

Completed! Thank You So Much!

[@darodism]

I just love how I can't even inset it. Wow. Finally got it. Because of previous insets. Enable Boundary and Individual or its not going to work. Was working on a seperate project sooo this screwed me over.

[@moepreme]

The vertex cross symbol doesn’t show up for me to start lining up my image I need help

[@grabbitt]

not sure why that would be

[@AtkurKastara]

Thanks Grant... it's very detail tutorial, i'm searching for how to extrude 2d logo... and i get it in this place... thanks you very much...

[@tejobhiru1092]

thank you so much for the amazingly explained, detailed videos in an encouraging, soothing, meditating voice..! im just so thankful..!

[@PapayaPositive]

Love the butler voice. 👍👍

[@user-pz9ju6ss7r]

"Alt + G" sounded as "O + G" for me, so now I know the hotkey for moving objects with proportional editing ))

[@humaidmohideen2466]

Hey do you think you can help me? The profile pic i have now is my logo im trying to make my logo like a peice of metal buried in black sand and the sand on top of my logo getting blown away by the wind revealing my logo and my logo then shining so I can have an intro for my yt. I tried to check any videos on how to do it but none of them were there to help me with my project. If you know how to do it or can do it for me that would be great! Thank you! also love your videos! Really helpful for the metal logo part. :)

[@grabbitt]

its pretty tough to be honest. It's quiet a skilled thing to be able to do

[@humaidmohideen2466]

@@grabbitt hey at the time I commented this I didn't even know what blender was. I have learned blender and now I can do basically anything I want. Thanks for inspiring me. I have been doing blender for 6 months and surprisingly i know basically everything.

[@sweetestgravy9880]

Could you teach us how to do surface imperfections like in the final render? It looked a lot more natural with all the fingerprints and smudges and stuff.

[@lassebodilsen]

You could do that by adding a noise texture to the roughness value. 1. select the object, and click Shading in the top of the window. 2. Click Add -> Texture -> Noise Texture 3. drag either the Fac or color down to the roughness value. Done

[@grabbitt]

i will be doing this in node school soon

[@sweetestgravy9880]

@@grabbitt Ok, Thanks!

[@angreeee]

alt+a doesn't remove the rotation. You could have something that shows on the screen what you are pressing, like in other blender videos

[@grabbitt]

bottom right are screen cast. alt r

[@donavanmcconnell2186]

I noticed when you switched to GPU compute the dropdown grays out. Mine does that as well, and I learned that it's because my GPU isn't compatible with blender 2.8 and up. If I'm right and your's is the same way, if you go into your preferences, go to system, and look at your cycles compute devices, it either won't show your graphics card, or your graphics card might just not be checked. Hope this helps you and anyone else that sees a grayed out menu after switching to GPU compute.

[@grabbitt]

That's really interesting. I went to the preferences and it was ticked but it seemed to kick blender into gear and it was no longer greyed out. Thanks. I did not even notice :)

[@donavanmcconnell2186]

Grant Abbitt of course! Anything to help one of my favorite artists!

[@haunteddiary15]

Damn it Grant, you're supposed to delete the default cube and add a new one, that's da law! :D :D :D

[@BrainSlugs83]

Why delete the default cube when you can just Thanos snap the vertices!

[@hackzein4138]

I learned a lot about topology and quads thanks grant

[@mehrdad2685]

i don't know if 2.8 had this or not but in 282 i saw inset have outset now 😀 good for when forgot to inset before extrusion

[@intelligenceservices]

i followed every step, i'm in vertex mode, alt g, alt r, reference image on empty, selected with a, but alt+M gives me a 'split' dialog, not a 'merge' -- that's because blender changed the shortcut and now it's M. I guess they really don't want people to learn this software.

[@VirtualSteven]

Another amazing tutorial Grant! Keep em coming :)

[@vishyonkeys]

Great Video! 14:22 though, how do you get to completing that design? Right now there is only one center vertex and how to create two of them for the second shape?

[@grabbitt]

I can't remember sorry

[@vishyonkeys]

I guess, adding another cube and using its vertex for the center would help?

[@faizahmohammedaruwa]

@@vishyonkeys ya, that should do it!

[@shanepelcha3601]

Hey buddy thank you for being awesome and sharing your knowledge. I wish you would release a course on udemy I would totally buy it js

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@maurypb]

You could just... uh... use the "buy me a beer" button, and give the guy the amount you'd be willing to pay to udemy, you know. :)

[@Joker-Leto]

Blender should have a "Trace Image/Bitmap" feature to make it easier to convert image to vector

[@grabbitt]

It does kind of

[@troglodyte2042]

Excellent video sir. But I only have one question: how do you do that rotation animation? 17:03

[@curiositytube5924]

I have the same question...

[@grabbitt]

see my quick tips playlist

[@troglodyte2042]

@@curiositytube5924 I got the answer yesterday. Just search this: TutsByKai (channel) Blender 2.8 Eevee Tutorial - How to ORBIT your camera around an object (video title).

[@curiositytube5924]

@@troglodyte2042 thanks a ton!

[@fahriaryono7836]

thank you so much!!!

[@EB-xh6ii]

thank you, very helpful! I didn't do it exactly like you, but it worked out anyway. You gave me the starting point : )

[@technikchaot]

If you really want to make a logo simple subdivide a plane and displace it with an colorramp and the logo picture of course it does only work with images which are not to colourful but in your case it would have worked.

[@number1salesman-1997]

Second time I've used this - super helpful!

[@Mocorn]

This was thoroughly enjoyable! I cannot wait to try this out, I've got a thousand ideas from this. I think people mentioning .SVG import is missing that this right here is a teachable moment. I learned something important about quads vs ngons etc here and this simple video has taught me why I've had "strange behaviour" in my models before that I couldn't quite explain. Because of this one video I now know why and also perhaps how to even fix it in my old models!? On that topic I have a question for Grant. I can see that you have an underlying understanding of correct topology that comes naturally for you and I am now intrigued. Do you perhaps have another video with more training examples? This explains so much and I am now very intrigued to learn more :)

[@grabbitt]

yes my exercise playlist goes through topology

[@Mocorn]

@@grabbitt awesome, I'll have a look at that. Thanks to this video I made my first render last night! I had to Google how to actually render, F12! now I know :) here's my result - My first render imgur.com/a/1CYbLx4

[@xantishayde-walker4593]

@@Mocorn That looks really nice, man. Good job!

[@anandverma4604]

very difficult till now.... but fun to do it

[@yugendommy153]

Been wondering how I could do this for a bit. Thanks man this was awesome

[@grabbitt]

Thanks :)

[@omi4789]

Amazing tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing - you really helped me out.

[@ExiledQ]

Brilliantly efficient tutorial. Thank you, mate

[@AngelosFasois]

Thanks Grant

[@PhantomCarnivalArt]

Could never find how to F Fill quads!! Thank you so much for this!!

[@RodrigoDAgostino]

Why would you do it this way instead of working with an SVG?

[@grabbitt]

i find this way i have way more control when it comes to sorting the topology later. For a more complicated logo i would probably go your route

[@RodrigoDAgostino]

@@grabbitt but in this particular case, I don't see how it is more useful to do it like this. Maybe I'm missing something.

[@BrainSlugs83]

@@RodrigoDAgostino the difference is subtle; this approach gives you much more control over the edgeflow and the topology, and is about the same amount of work for a simple logo.

[@RodrigoDAgostino]

@@BrainSlugs83 not really, my friend. It takes you way less time if you start from SVG. There's no need to do retracing, which reduces the required time quite considerably.

[@BadaBing_]

What's SVG?

[@Blenderfanz]

your right just tried grid fill just makes a mess

[@Alpha.One.Studio]

Wow great explained.

[@GenericInternetter]

8:49 all you needed to do was to move the vertex that's at the end of the edge running down the middle of the area, move it back a bit, then form two quads there. No need to push an extra quad into the middle.

[@Strixs]

For some reason I can't fatten the object? to be honest though I'm using a Plane trying to make a hollow circle that's 3D ever so slightly, about the thickness you have for the logo. I've tried holding down E and raising it, but all it does is just use the rectangular select tool no matter what button I press. I feel like I'm doing something really dumb here lol

[@grabbitt]

Not sure what's going wrong there

[@KaiBuskirk]

thanks grant! loved this with coffee!!

[@iamgamer884]

NEW SUB ... THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY BROTHER

[@felipecorpuz2476]

You should do ASMR! Your voice is soothing

[@dixitnemesis1737]

the wolf is amazingly beautiful...

[@shokomann]

Thank you, love this tutorial, helped a lot!

[@bboybeatle]

Very nice tutorial. Good pace and clear. My only issue is I don't see all the meshlines like you do at 13:48 . I just see the polygons I edited and my smooth shape inside. Am I missing a checkbox to see all the new lines created by subdivision? Thanks alot

[@grabbitt]

I think I was in wireframe mode

[@Historia96]

Thank you so much 13:54, I followed every step but can't seem to have mine look the same when i go to wireframe mood.

[@aloomia826]

What difference will it make if we merge at centre any other shape besides cube?btw this was fun Thank u!

[@grabbitt]

None

[@canicedaniel8177]

This is beautiful! I couldn’t save the rendered image because it was in cycles. Do you have an updated video on this in your playlist that explains how images could be saved even when rendered in cycles?

[@grabbitt]

Yes you can save the cycles render. It was probably just still rendering

[@Killmefirst448]

Great video! Not too long and as detailed as needed!

[@arieljones2652]

How do you add the image at 1:08? Lol im stuck at the first step- and thank you so much for making this video! I have been wanting to make my own logo! You just got a new sub

[@grabbitt]

Check my quick tips playlist 👍🙂

[@FA-sy7ew]

what about tracing it with the bezzier curve? would that work too?

[@grabbitt]

yes i prefer my way but that works too

[@eoin7075]

You like to dislike ratio is insane. Well done mate

[@swertreshearing8542]

why not use curved?

[@grabbitt]

could do. i find this a little easier

[@reymundoalvarez380]

I am in a Mac. Shift G let's me grab the image and R Rotates the image. I was not able to remove its preset to do the centering.

[@grabbitt]

option r will remove i believe

[@lln6123]

Thank you!

[@bonafide_idiot]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[@danieleliahushapiro4280]

Great topology stuff as usual from our lord saviour. Blender talk at the blender event when?

[@grabbitt]

might be doing the London one :)

[@eddiebreeg3885]

Really cool tutorial! Quick tip: you might want to enable the F2 addon which allows you to do a lot of cool stuff! For example if you want to create a quad, instead of extruding a vertex to have 4, you can actually take the vertex which is on the opposite side of the quad and hit F (if that makes sense). The addon will do the extrusion for you and create the face!

[@grabbitt]

nice

[@iamthekaverik]

where do you get this addon and are there tutorials?

[@eddiebreeg3885]

@@iamthekaverik it's available by default, and has a documentation link you can follow to know everything you need

[@warquag]

why when I press Alt G and my image not centered? :(

[@GreySwole]

the keyboard shortcuts arent working

[@Blenderfanz]

did extrude a plane achieved nearly identical result takes about the same time though

[@ChandanSomani]

good explanation of Plane shadow catcher

[@ChandanSomani]

also about structure topology