Thursday, 07 July 2011 21:58

Tutorial: God-Ray Logo Reveal in Blender

Written by  Gottfried Hofmann
Tutorial: God-Ray Logo Reveal in Blender
A simple yet very powerfull approach to reveal a logo is using the all-majestic god-rays. Of couse you can achieve that all in Blender - this tutorials shows how!

This was the first time I released a tutorial a little early so everyone can try and figure for himself how the effect was created. I was overwhelmed by the responses! You can find a compilation on the coolest submissions here!

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Download the final video and Blendfile here!

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  • CC-BY 3.0: This tutorial and blendfiles are released under the Creative Commons License CC-BY 3.0 Unported
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22 comments

  • Comment Link maga Friday, 21 December 2012 12:18 posted by maga

    Great job, I'm using the panoramic camera in Cycles, is this tuto is adaptable with cycles ?

  • Comment Link Onis Donis Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:11 posted by Onis Donis

    Hello,
    I did the tutorial with a different name and added some sound, this is my first logo design/digital logo design. I hope you will like it.

  • Comment Link Dominic Sunday, 05 February 2012 18:40 posted by Dominic

    This would look really cool paired up with your particle-dissolve tutorial!

  • Comment Link Sonny Thursday, 15 December 2011 04:31 posted by Sonny

    Thanks, it was a great tutorial.

  • Comment Link Gottfried Hofmann Wednesday, 14 December 2011 17:48 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

    Hey SonnySee, great result!

  • Comment Link SonnySee Wednesday, 14 December 2011 04:30 posted by SonnySee

    Thanks for the tutorial. I used this technique in a video I created for one of my favorite podcasts.
    http://youtu.be/fM6Jyt5rr1s

  • Comment Link Nate Thursday, 11 August 2011 04:00 posted by Nate

    Hey Gottfried,

    I'm an amateur in Blender and was going to build a computer to do animation with. I was wondering what your computer specs are. Thanks!

  • Comment Link Gottfried Hofmann Friday, 22 July 2011 16:06 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

    Paul: I'm planning to add a second host so people can choose the one that fits then better.

  • Comment Link Gottfried Hofmann Friday, 22 July 2011 16:04 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

    Hey Benno - for the render I used a dithering of 1.0 - I show that in the last minute of the tutorial - it smoothed out the banding in the PNG sequences but the heavy compression on YouTube re-introduced quiet some artifacts.

  • Comment Link Paul Friday, 22 July 2011 15:41 posted by Paul

    Your download site totally sucks. There must be a better host out there. I never got the download window and now I'm going to have to wait an hour to try again, unless I pay.

  • Comment Link zelozelos Thursday, 21 July 2011 23:28 posted by zelozelos

    the info on the driver was just what i needed! Thank you soo much for teaching. I look forward to more detailed tutorials..i think im pretty much past the point of focusing on modeling and materials. Now for the good stuff eh?...btw i use Zelozelos as my pen name becuase there are sooo many ed smiths out ther rofl. try getting an email addr w that name bluck! Anyhow heres mine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRYZjoYd5-I

  • Comment Link zelozelos Thursday, 21 July 2011 22:44 posted by zelozelos

    the info on the driver was just what i needed! Thank you soo much for teaching. I look forward to more detailed tutorials..i think im pretty much past the point of focusing on modeling and materials. Now for the good stuff eh?...btw i use Zelozelos as my pen name becuase there are sooo many ed smiths out ther rofl. try getting an email addr w that name bluck!

  • Comment Link benNO! Wednesday, 20 July 2011 15:34 posted by benNO!

    Hallö, dein Halo hat ganz schön krasse Abstufungen - nur so als kleiner Tipp, um das zu vermeiden kannst du in der render settings das Dithering anschalten (glaube so zwischen 1-2) dadurch kommt es nicht zum bending :-)

    Hey there - Thanks for your Tutorial - your halo has a lot of bending - to avoid that you can activate "dithering" in the render settings under "post processing" - hope that works fine?

    greetings from berlin
    benNO!

  • Comment Link Gottfried Hofmann Friday, 15 July 2011 17:37 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

    tarik: hey that's pretty close as always!

    RagBuster: Rotating the lamp adds some unique style - wanted to use that in a future and somewhat different tut :)

  • Comment Link RagBuster Friday, 15 July 2011 02:00 posted by RagBuster

    I very quickly just made something similar using some of these steps.
    Take a look here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zK3KhkQnPc

  • Comment Link tarik bagriyanik Monday, 11 July 2011 21:24 posted by tarik bagriyanik

    there is the work:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK9OreMzYKI

  • Comment Link marwin Friday, 08 July 2011 13:17 posted by marwin

    very cool use of volumentric lighting ^_^ ill remember this

  • Comment Link Gottfried Hofmann Friday, 08 July 2011 12:55 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

    Crossroads: You have to enter a captcha after clicking "free" - it's a good one - you are helping digitizing books by entering the correct words :)

  • Comment Link Crossroads Digital Imaging Friday, 08 July 2011 12:28 posted by Crossroads Digital Imaging

    Im sorry but there must be other issues. I cannot.
    When I select "free" I am told i either must purchase the premium account or nothing at all happens...in other words it makes me wait 12 seconds and then no file is downloaded at all.

  • Comment Link Gottfried Hofmann Friday, 08 July 2011 12:22 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

    Crossroad: I just checked, you can download the video and blend for free. Just select *free* :)
    Vimeo forces you to register if you want to download videos and you cannot host other files there.

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