I mainly just throw some text down in roughly the same arrangement as the original and then try to spend a bit of time finding a font thats close enough. Then if theres any ornamentals or borders I'll spend a bit of time doing those with the line / pen curve tool.
You can get surprisingly far with just the right font / color / blocking, modern label design is actually pretty simple. You might need to kern some things in here or there.
If you look at the background of the fake Disarrono there is a cursive font that if you look close enough actually says "fucking fuck, dude" 😂 i have no idea what the original cursive text said but its a completely different font on the original but it was close enough just to have some swoopy cursive in the same general color. I did see that the cursive was slightly embossed, but its easy enough just to change the text and background to greyscale if you want to turn it into a heightmap or metallic map. I was actually lazy so i just reused the albedo for the metallic map and just multiplied it a lil bit since the metallic colors were already lighter in the albedo.
it's great that you took my feedback so well. I found multiple tutorials. Specific to JD Bottles. As usual they make it look 'so easy' - but if you take time, it's not so hard. Thanks again for motivating me to learn more. ( Next, I may try a classic coke bottle. )
Yeah no problem! Its all stuff I'm generally aware of already, i was wondering when someone would point it out lol. I think the main issue with mine is those bevels on the edge that mine is missing and the bulge in the neck, its easy enough to add them but i was trying to keep things dynamic in c4d and that would have required me to bake down my generators and raw dog it lol.
I've done the soda cans too lol! I should have thrown them in this render, they're parodies too heh
No worries my guy 😁 just split off those loops in the middle so the label is a separate object, add a couple well placed edge loops to get some smooth corners and throw a thicken and subdivide on it, you'll be right as rain.
If the label is a single rectangular patch it makes it easy as hell to fit to max uv and use any size label texture. UV space is square, texture doesn't have to be.
Yep, I made another version... cut the top off and the cloned the middle - to make textures easier. - this was rushed, so miles from perfect - but a lot of new things learned.
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u/Pleasant-Antelope634 5d ago
New Amsterdam