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Client: Chin Group/NPD

Description: 3D illustration for brochure cover (8.5”x11”)

Software: Photoshop, Illustrator and Bryce

Production Notes: The Chin Group designed logos for NPD and needed an illustration of children's blocks. Single block illustrations needed to be placed throughout the brochure and others had to be retouched into an existing photograph.

Since I needed to make multiple illustrations in an efficient manner, I used Bryce to create objects that could be rotated and rendered separately.

I scanned a wood texture into Photoshop and made a repeating tile. Then I created a bump map with the color information by converting it to grayscale and blurring the map. I rasterized the icon illustrator files into Photoshop and created multilevel grayscale bump maps for use in Bryce. After setting up lighting and the experimenting with the bump heights, I rendered the block art in Bryce.

In Photoshop, I silhouetted the blocks with the path tool and set the background to white. On another layer I airbrushed in a gray shadow set at 40% black. After finishing the cover, it was easy to separate, reposition and render the blocks.