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There is no 3D modeler at work in your examples. If you look at your sample images, all the highlights are the same, and you can pick out coins which are identical. This is a clear indicator that there's no actual 3D taking place.
Coins are drawn in a 2D application with perspective, then duplicated and altered slightly.
A quick rough example....
You may ...
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Use a grid system. Draw the circular shadow on a flat non-distorted grid.
Draw the distorted grid, and use the flat grid as a guide, noting where the shadow intersects with the grid lines.
For example:
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To amplify Billy Kerr's excellent response, if you wanted to set your light source in your illustration other than directly overhead (I can see Billy took, as I do, your initial sketched dashed lines running vertically as your intended shadow edge) you would draw vanishing points from the light source past the edges of your sphere to show the shadow path, ...
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Use a real 3D program.
Your best option is probably Blender. It is great, and I mean great 3D program, for modeling and rendering (besides a tonne of other things); and that is what you need.
This image was done in 5 minutes.
You probably need to look for some tutorials to move around.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Blender+simple+text
But ...
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Sadly, these very saturated colors can't be reproduced in CMYK.
You could try to make the image in CMYK mode, where you make sure that the red is CMYK(0, 100, 100, 0) and the cyan is CMYK(100, 0, 0, 0). Don't make it in RGB and convert to CMYK as it might pollute the clean inks.
I believe that it's important to only use solid colors (all CMYK values 0% or ...
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The easiest way is probably to use a 2D greyscale image as a depth map to extrude a 3D object. 3D programs will give you more control but you can do this in Photoshop (see Create 3D objects from 2D images in Photoshop - Adobe Support).
This for example, took me a few minutes in Photoshop:
Using this as a depth map:
Chae Byung-rok does have a few other ...
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This is pretty easy in cycles, by mixing a transparent node with an emission shader based on how close the camera is to facing the normals head on.
You can get the "facing" value with a Layer wieght node or by taking the dot product of the normal and the incoming rays from the camera:
These methods are pretty much equivalent, though you have a handy ...
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Alternatively to Bala's answer, If you're mocking your image on to something like a monitor for this example, I find it easier to use the Distort tool as you can drag the corners of the image to match what ever it is you're laying your image onto.
Edit → Transform → Distort
Drag the corner points to the edges of the monitor to fill the blank screen
Add a ...
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As it may be possible in theory to draw an anaglyph stereoscopic image by hand this process is rather complicated.
Binocular disparity is Maths and Geometry
Our brain will compute the third dimension from the two independent flat 2D projections of our world to the retina of our eyes. Both the right eye and the left eye will see the objects from a different ...
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Generating 3D objects in illustrator is all about illusion. In your case you are trying to create a 3D object with 1 shape. However sometimes it's best to create the illusion of 1 shape or object by using two or more. For example the object below I created is two shapes, one on top of the other.
Here's how it breaks down visually.
And here is the step by ...
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You can not do that on your image as you have it.
1) You want a cylindrical projection on a sphere. First your canvas needs to be at one exact proportion. 3.1416:1 (Use any pixel sized canvas you want, for example 3141x1000px)
2) And you (normally) need the horizon to be at the center of the canvas.
On a cylindrical projection (from a sphere) you have a ...
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I cannot offer any information on how to do this yourself, but it was revealed in one of the production videos for The Hobbit that artists Alan Lee and John Howe produced some hand-drawn red/cyan 3D concept art.
We thought we'd try and come up with some way of actually incorporating a 3D aspect into the way that we were producing the concept art that ...
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Equirectangular image presents a sphere, it's distorted so that meridians and parallels on the sphere are shown as straight vertical and horizontal lines. An example from Wikipedia:
In the left there's a spherical map and in the right there's the equivalent plane map, the equirectangular projection from sphere to a rectangle.
There's no stretching on the ...
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Odds are very high this was produced in a 3D DCC* (**Digital Content Creation) program like Modo, Maya, 3DS, Cinema 4D, Blender, Houdini or Lightwave - I say this because you can clearly see some subtle details like incident light bouncing, most commonly called Global Illumination (GI), AO (Ambient Occlusion), and even a hint of SSS (Sub-Surface-Scatter) ...
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You can create a circle and a second one in the middle (the inner circle should be the size of the stacked ones)
Then draw a line down the middle and use Shape Builder Tool to separate them:
Rotate the (yellow) piece to desired angle and then apply the same 3D angles - just make the Extrusion Depth much higher:
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If you MUST use Cyan and you want something around RGB saturation then you need to work with paper. There are some that reacts very well to certain paints and give them extra boost. They are also usually custom ordered so much pricey than regular print.
Which make sense to eaither print with Pantone (as per Wolff answer) or ask your printhouse for a custom ...
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Two relevant terms:
The type of flat-3D perspective is isometric view (or more accurately pseudo-isometric because it looks like it's not strictly based on 120 degrees).
The style of limited-detail but accurate drawing is like instructional diagrams - in particular, it looks based on styles commonly used in in-flight safety diagrams. A lot of the incidental ...
answered Sep 26 '13 at 16:31
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You could also do it like this.
So I have bunch of layers that form the grid of images.
To give it flexibility, I put them into a Smart Object
Then from the top menu Edit > Free Transform ( ...or Windows: Ctrl+T Mac: Cmd+T )
In the Free Transform toolbar at the top, click Warp modes icon
On the left side, from the warp dropdown, select Bulge.
Add ...
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Diamonds are fragmented as prisms. If you want it to appear more 3D you need to find a way to make it appear fragmented. This could be with lines such as:
Or through gradients and shading like this:
Yours looks flat because it is. The entire front is just one piece. You need to add lines and/or shading to create depth to it showing where different ...
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A masterpiece of manual crafting is already suggested by other users. I believe it. No automatic software can combine the multiple functions of the strokes, namely showing the geometric surface form, creating some outlines (rabbit's face features) and creating the shading.
There are those horizontal strokes and the wanted shape as line art for a start. One ...
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I've created an Adobe® Illustrator® Plug-in called Oblique Projection 'opo' to automate the creation process of Parallel 3D Effect (Extrude Effect). It is quick and gives you full control over the appearance of the extrusion.
Everything is on one layer so you can easily separate it from the rest of the artwork. Plus it is divided into logical parts - this ...
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It looks pretty trivial to draw by hand. Here's a few tricks you could use to make it a bit easier:
Start by setting up a grid for your document (via File → Document Properties... → "Grids" tab) and turn on "Snap to Grid". That way, you won't have to take so much care in getting things lined up correctly.
Also (or alternatively), you could set ...
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Joonas's answer is on the money, but another method is to use Distort > Displace:
The input is another .psd that acts as a displacement map. The red channel controls horizontal distortion, and green controls vertical. Neutral gray means no movement, white = up/left, black = down/right. By setting a couple of gradients across the channels you can get ...
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I can suggest a method to make the cone, but I think the gradients will probably have to be created manually. I can't really think of a quick way of doing them. Sorry about that.
Anyway, here goes:
Select the circle and squish it into an oval
Copy it, paste in front, and group the copy
Hide the group
Use the Lasso Tool to select the middle anchors
Using ...
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Notice how all lines are either vertical or rotated 45°. This image follow a regular square grid, so it's easy to construct manually.
Enter Edit > Preferences > Guides & Grid to set up the grid as you prefer. (Here I'm in a print document and have set Grid > Gridline every to 10 mm.)
Make sure the grid is visible with View > Show Grid.
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The easiest way for me to create interlocking shapes is to use the Shape Builder Tool ---
Select the artwork and with the Shape Builder Tool click-drag to combine sections. Hold down the Option/Alt key and click-drag to remove sections.
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I was hoping someone with experience of this sort of vinyl print design would answer but since they haven't yet, here's what I'd try if it was me dropped in at the deep end on this project:
I haven't tried actually making the sphere but it looks like all the joins and curves would be in the right places to straighten and match when the template is printed ...
answered Apr 7 '14 at 15:51
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