Build a 3D Rocket with Photoshop and Illustrator
Monday, June 30th, 2008 running time 13:57
How to use the 3D pen tool, gradients and the spatter brush to build a better space craft.
Bert shows us how to create a 3-D rocket this week with the help of Illustrator and Photoshop. First, Bert uses Illustrator to create the 3-D shape, using the pen tool, Effects>3D>Revolve and adjusting the perspective of the image. With Photoshop, Bert adds a sky background by adding blue tones and using the radial gradient. Then, Bert creates fire for the rocket in a new layer with the spatter brush, adjusting the spacing, size and angle jitter, and adding color dynamics. Bert then gives the rocket a little warp to make it more realistic.
To create a trail of smoke following the rocket, Bert creates a new image. First, he fills a layer with a neutral color, used the render>fiber filter and adjusts the variance and strengths. Bert adjusts the perspective , adds a gaussian blur and brush stroke>spatter to give it a soft and smoky feel.
Don't forget to design and e-mail Bert a background for our green screen! Please send a jpg design with size 1280x720 pixels
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" She's just so perfect and -- on -- I want to thank you go to yellow for the background but it does background. -- Better that'll be real we've had for so many years on today show. Because I got the fourth of July coming -- to a little fourth of July kind of thing who have a rocket shooting up into the sky. But before we start -- talk about Netflix. -- you can read over 90000. Titles online including lots of Blu-ray titles. With free shipping both ways to your home. Now with over forty delivery centers almost all of the that we happen in just one business day. With plans starting from a -- for 99. And as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership. Check it out at WWW. Dot Netflix dot com forward slash pixel perfect and remember to type that WWW. When using this code. Also want to thank godaddy.com. If you want to make an impact on line godaddy.com has what you need. Dot com means for as low as a dollar 99. Plus world class hosting. Fast and easy website builders and much much more and the cope pixel five when you check out. And save an additional ten dollars off any order of forty dollars and more. Some restrictions apply see this site for details. And now. Let's get down to the fun part now because it's safe holiday kind of the thing I'm gonna use to programs. Not just Photoshop but mostly use illustrator. Because I'm going to create this little rocket now does that rocket going to be shooting have been that this guy in the trail of smoke behind in the fire and all kind. The cool stuff happening there. So let's start right here and illustrator. Because nose straighter how to create the rocket itself. Says can you file. And -- Gonna go in here and."
" Here's a little -- now to do is -- just create with my pencil and create that was shape -- give it doesn't know fill. And on the stroke. Epitomized bright red eyes bright red color and going here and just click right up there. Comes about over to here. Comes straight in on hold down my shift key to come straight and on that on and then straight down. That's it that's a cross section of my little rocket now might be a little kind of tight loop to a think there's so that's has -- discuss it over to us a little so. As a nice that body through it right that's it so I'm gonna select this I'm gonna go to my effects and go to the three BB ball. We gonna say. Previewed at it would look site quoted as an ice rocket that's it we've got that would give it a little perspective. To so it -- a little more of an angle to it. There go to bed my so perspective because going to be flying towards us just like that nice and exaggerated. And click okay and -- my rocket a minute ago on the go ahead and copied that is going to -- and copy -- to a via the clipboard. So. We can now go into Photoshop. Where I can -- hide that other stuff -- don't seem illustrated back there to the clipboard so and I go to new. It's going to reflect. The size of the little object that has created just figuring that out what's in the clipboard and there there it is -- 147 pixels by 288. But we're gonna make it much bigger I don't go in there and -- just set this up to be face 600. And the -- really tall let's go to 1000 pixels 600 by 8000. Click OK that is his big long file that I'm gonna go and paste. My little rocket in on the pay accident has pixels there's my rocket. It after that happens and I'll take my little rocket put him right up there at the top right Baghdad. Now. In my background but it it's nice colors to be like this guy. So let's go in here and let's pick a nice like you like that. And for the background will pick a deeper blue so little more dramatic say about. -- like that that is good and what I'm doing I'm gonna give a radial gradient. To kind of draw attention to that two rocket itself and we're going to give it a great degree and a center that gradient right -- Iraqi news. So we have this nice little. Sky back there Tyson now. Google and -- start to create some little fire coming at the bottom of the things so in a new layer right here. I'm gonna get some other colors and get a nice bright yellow. Bright yellow and a bright red. For my background. And I get my brush nice. -- I got this one right here but right now it's just gonna do that it's on Dudack. And what I want to do go to my brush engine. We're I'm gonna go ahead and modified it's that little effect has put out so we can. Keep an -- on the screen here and particularly with spacing. In the space and so we have some space between this strokes are about to do go to my shape dynamics and return my pen pressure off I don't want that. Changes they found pressure but I went to a size generic. And a little bit about angle -- so starts to become really chaotic what you see down there I've done this many times from many different things there's gonna be like a little burst of fire. So I'm gonna give it a little -- dynamics. Front go between department of background but I -- these guys down. I want just between those two colors it bright red net bright yellow -- and I would go ahead and doctors. -- right in here as get a bigger brush. -- bigger there I'm just gonna draw a little kind of little burst like that. Get the that yellow and there and I'm gonna go here and give this little. We're gonna say warping and gonna grab this guy and kind of put up like that. So now I can bring this down. Right there right below it and got this little burst happening underneath and I want to just kind of -- set up a little that's the scale it and kinda tighten that little burst of fire. -- now what I need is all the smoke trail of smoke that's coming out from the back. More that fire and create this in another file. Because I needed to be a nice long file. So and created -- new file here and we'll make it about to sing kind of with that we have here which is a thousand. And we'll make the height. That go with a 400 I should be good enough. Ticket as long file here right so I'm gonna do here is -- later that I -- put everything into a layer and here create a layer. And go ahead and let's just fill it with a neutral density that's the group so -- would -- great. Since we have something that start off with now I'm gonna pick some callers here I'm gonna pick a a blue. From a background which is just like the blue that's in the sky here McKay and then for the foreground and pick a nice white. The white and that blue and I'm gonna give this layer. A little. Rendered. -- Fibers and uses for a few things before so here we go in here and I can play around with -- until I get some really nice kind of effects like that. -- get this nice kinda. I agree thing going on there between. The blue and the white today we see what we've got an open up the screens would to have them. Area to work and not let go here let's crunches down. So on the scale it down. Start to tighten up a little bit. That Baghdad. That is good. That but it kind of Doolittle. Another little. Distortion on the -- perspective on it just kinda tighten up like that. The less okay now going to be alert going to blurred because I wanted to be soft and smoky. -- I -- little -- just to soften it up like that. So now what I need to do. They need to -- this because I want the edges to be kind of up. -- broken up right -- on the go here and with my last so I'm going to create a shape. Way inside like this that's where I gave myself a little extra workspace so I have some room to go outside. That area selected. When I come over to the masks radio and say make it amassed since I have an -- selected is gonna automatically create a mask. For that -- case and now. I'm in the mask -- in the mess so what I'm going to do now is I'm gonna go near a pipe -- to the mask and go in here and give it a little. --"
" Now we see -- master here comes that. They're -- folk how is going to work it's gonna do that that's going to -- really messed it up as going to smoothness down and Brooke really messed this guy yeah. There we see what it's gonna do click OK he would -- the edges. Now I'm gonna blur those something's going to say -- The whole thing. Yeah ago. Like that click OK now we see what it's done to our little finger not a throw way to mask the throw it away and say applies to long has amassed tonight it's just take this. And bring it into here. Not it to here we consumers got a way back here and it's throw them away in my -- there he is inside here so what I'm gonna do now they're gonna rotate this. This is a little rotate. Cisco. Clockwise. Put him down to position here and -- pull back the hallway back on this so that I can now have some room to work. Gotta salute to work let's go see reduces spread in -- like that. And I'm gonna go here I'm gonna start to just sort this guy can -- the war. And now it's gonna grab this guy and bring them over like this. Bring these handles into. And kind of tighten it up a little bit pick this up. -- that it kind of small as they get further down there and liberal Google twist at about here. Has so little twist. To -- that. It and there are to go back to our full size here's some good see what's happened not to get this show smoke which I'm going to give this a mask. I ran out of mask just as Wright had nothing select this is just the white mask so I'm gonna go in here and paint some black into that layer and it's just get a regular brush. Nice soft -- pressure like -- this hundred greater and I just gonna paint them. Black into there just like that and -- in the put the fire on top of this layer so we have a little fire there and you know we can take that spoke. Let's go to a second one. Very here which is little little stronger would put it right on top there and just bring it down capacity of its we have little smoke showing up right through that. That little fire and in that -- which is component kind of pink to settle more. Paint that out in the mask that's gonna paint -- and that's mask pain that out so we just have to smoke."
" Right in there and now all we need is a little explosion which. We'll do after the fourth of July but there we have this rocket that shooting up the space leaving a trail of smoke behind it. Now remember -- a lot of things going on there a lot of different techniques. It's. What I did not the end result but how I got to it that's it's important. Because a couple of changes in the color whatever you can then create your own effects but here we got this cool little rocket shooting up into space and and you can. Blow it up on your own. Popular something from that remember replace the best way to learn to sit there and play don't think it does work it's plain. If there's anything you'd like to see in the show email me at -- revision3.com. Check out the pixel perfect -- that revision3.com. Forward slash forum where you can join discussions about the show and maybe influence a future episode. Also your artwork can be used without background to sector saw. The vehicles today. It can be used that I background email me your design add certain revision3.com. And background should be. 1280. Pixels by 720 pixels across. -- that doesn't matter how many per inch has always you have those dimensions 1280 by 720. And should be JPEG."
" Hope you enjoy it I hope you learned something and I hope to see you next week."
" She's just so perfect and -- on -- I want to thank you go to yellow for the background but it does background. -- Better that'll be real we've had for so many years on today show. Because I got the fourth of July coming -- to a little fourth of July kind of thing who have a rocket shooting up into the sky. But before we start -- talk about Netflix. -- you can read over 90000. Titles online including lots of Blu-ray titles. With free shipping both ways to your home. Now with over forty delivery centers almost all of the that we happen in just one business day. With plans starting from a -- for 99. And as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership. Check it out at WWW. Dot Netflix dot com forward slash pixel perfect and remember to type that WWW. When using this code. Also want to thank godaddy.com. If you want to make an impact on line godaddy.com has what you need. Dot com means for as low as a dollar 99. Plus world class hosting. Fast and easy website builders and much much more and the cope pixel five when you check out. And save an additional ten dollars off any order of forty dollars and more. Some restrictions apply see this site for details. And now. Let's get down to the fun part now because it's safe holiday kind of the thing I'm gonna use to programs. Not just Photoshop but mostly use illustrator. Because I'm going to create this little rocket now does that rocket going to be shooting have been that this guy in the trail of smoke behind in the fire and all kind. The cool stuff happening there. So let's start right here and illustrator. Because nose straighter how to create the rocket itself. Says can you file. And -- Gonna go in here and."
" Here's a little -- now to do is -- just create with my pencil and create that was shape -- give it doesn't know fill. And on the stroke. Epitomized bright red eyes bright red color and going here and just click right up there. Comes about over to here. Comes straight in on hold down my shift key to come straight and on that on and then straight down. That's it that's a cross section of my little rocket now might be a little kind of tight loop to a think there's so that's has -- discuss it over to us a little so. As a nice that body through it right that's it so I'm gonna select this I'm gonna go to my effects and go to the three BB ball. We gonna say. Previewed at it would look site quoted as an ice rocket that's it we've got that would give it a little perspective. To so it -- a little more of an angle to it. There go to bed my so perspective because going to be flying towards us just like that nice and exaggerated. And click okay and -- my rocket a minute ago on the go ahead and copied that is going to -- and copy -- to a via the clipboard. So. We can now go into Photoshop. Where I can -- hide that other stuff -- don't seem illustrated back there to the clipboard so and I go to new. It's going to reflect. The size of the little object that has created just figuring that out what's in the clipboard and there there it is -- 147 pixels by 288. But we're gonna make it much bigger I don't go in there and -- just set this up to be face 600. And the -- really tall let's go to 1000 pixels 600 by 8000. Click OK that is his big long file that I'm gonna go and paste. My little rocket in on the pay accident has pixels there's my rocket. It after that happens and I'll take my little rocket put him right up there at the top right Baghdad. Now. In my background but it it's nice colors to be like this guy. So let's go in here and let's pick a nice like you like that. And for the background will pick a deeper blue so little more dramatic say about. -- like that that is good and what I'm doing I'm gonna give a radial gradient. To kind of draw attention to that two rocket itself and we're going to give it a great degree and a center that gradient right -- Iraqi news. So we have this nice little. Sky back there Tyson now. Google and -- start to create some little fire coming at the bottom of the things so in a new layer right here. I'm gonna get some other colors and get a nice bright yellow. Bright yellow and a bright red. For my background. And I get my brush nice. -- I got this one right here but right now it's just gonna do that it's on Dudack. And what I want to do go to my brush engine. We're I'm gonna go ahead and modified it's that little effect has put out so we can. Keep an -- on the screen here and particularly with spacing. In the space and so we have some space between this strokes are about to do go to my shape dynamics and return my pen pressure off I don't want that. Changes they found pressure but I went to a size generic. And a little bit about angle -- so starts to become really chaotic what you see down there I've done this many times from many different things there's gonna be like a little burst of fire. So I'm gonna give it a little -- dynamics. Front go between department of background but I -- these guys down. I want just between those two colors it bright red net bright yellow -- and I would go ahead and doctors. -- right in here as get a bigger brush. -- bigger there I'm just gonna draw a little kind of little burst like that. Get the that yellow and there and I'm gonna go here and give this little. We're gonna say warping and gonna grab this guy and kind of put up like that. So now I can bring this down. Right there right below it and got this little burst happening underneath and I want to just kind of -- set up a little that's the scale it and kinda tighten that little burst of fire. -- now what I need is all the smoke trail of smoke that's coming out from the back. More that fire and create this in another file. Because I needed to be a nice long file. So and created -- new file here and we'll make it about to sing kind of with that we have here which is a thousand. And we'll make the height. That go with a 400 I should be good enough. Ticket as long file here right so I'm gonna do here is -- later that I -- put everything into a layer and here create a layer. And go ahead and let's just fill it with a neutral density that's the group so -- would -- great. Since we have something that start off with now I'm gonna pick some callers here I'm gonna pick a a blue. From a background which is just like the blue that's in the sky here McKay and then for the foreground and pick a nice white. The white and that blue and I'm gonna give this layer. A little. Rendered. -- Fibers and uses for a few things before so here we go in here and I can play around with -- until I get some really nice kind of effects like that. -- get this nice kinda. I agree thing going on there between. The blue and the white today we see what we've got an open up the screens would to have them. Area to work and not let go here let's crunches down. So on the scale it down. Start to tighten up a little bit. That Baghdad. That is good. That but it kind of Doolittle. Another little. Distortion on the -- perspective on it just kinda tighten up like that. The less okay now going to be alert going to blurred because I wanted to be soft and smoky. -- I -- little -- just to soften it up like that. So now what I need to do. They need to -- this because I want the edges to be kind of up. -- broken up right -- on the go here and with my last so I'm going to create a shape. Way inside like this that's where I gave myself a little extra workspace so I have some room to go outside. That area selected. When I come over to the masks radio and say make it amassed since I have an -- selected is gonna automatically create a mask. For that -- case and now. I'm in the mask -- in the mess so what I'm going to do now is I'm gonna go near a pipe -- to the mask and go in here and give it a little. --"
" Now we see -- master here comes that. They're -- folk how is going to work it's gonna do that that's going to -- really messed it up as going to smoothness down and Brooke really messed this guy yeah. There we see what it's gonna do click OK he would -- the edges. Now I'm gonna blur those something's going to say -- The whole thing. Yeah ago. Like that click OK now we see what it's done to our little finger not a throw way to mask the throw it away and say applies to long has amassed tonight it's just take this. And bring it into here. Not it to here we consumers got a way back here and it's throw them away in my -- there he is inside here so what I'm gonna do now they're gonna rotate this. This is a little rotate. Cisco. Clockwise. Put him down to position here and -- pull back the hallway back on this so that I can now have some room to work. Gotta salute to work let's go see reduces spread in -- like that. And I'm gonna go here I'm gonna start to just sort this guy can -- the war. And now it's gonna grab this guy and bring them over like this. Bring these handles into. And kind of tighten it up a little bit pick this up. -- that it kind of small as they get further down there and liberal Google twist at about here. Has so little twist. To -- that. It and there are to go back to our full size here's some good see what's happened not to get this show smoke which I'm going to give this a mask. I ran out of mask just as Wright had nothing select this is just the white mask so I'm gonna go in here and paint some black into that layer and it's just get a regular brush. Nice soft -- pressure like -- this hundred greater and I just gonna paint them. Black into there just like that and -- in the put the fire on top of this layer so we have a little fire there and you know we can take that spoke. Let's go to a second one. Very here which is little little stronger would put it right on top there and just bring it down capacity of its we have little smoke showing up right through that. That little fire and in that -- which is component kind of pink to settle more. Paint that out in the mask that's gonna paint -- and that's mask pain that out so we just have to smoke."
" Right in there and now all we need is a little explosion which. We'll do after the fourth of July but there we have this rocket that shooting up the space leaving a trail of smoke behind it. Now remember -- a lot of things going on there a lot of different techniques. It's. What I did not the end result but how I got to it that's it's important. Because a couple of changes in the color whatever you can then create your own effects but here we got this cool little rocket shooting up into space and and you can. Blow it up on your own. Popular something from that remember replace the best way to learn to sit there and play don't think it does work it's plain. If there's anything you'd like to see in the show email me at -- revision3.com. Check out the pixel perfect -- that revision3.com. Forward slash forum where you can join discussions about the show and maybe influence a future episode. Also your artwork can be used without background to sector saw. The vehicles today. It can be used that I background email me your design add certain revision3.com. And background should be. 1280. Pixels by 720 pixels across. -- that doesn't matter how many per inch has always you have those dimensions 1280 by 720. And should be JPEG."
" Hope you enjoy it I hope you learned something and I hope to see you next week."
mari1ee
Started discussion: June 30, 2008 @ 9:50am GMT
Episode 89 - Build a 3D Rocket with Photoshop and Illustrator [Discussion]
How to use the 3D pen tool, gradients and the spatter brush to build a better space craft.
Watch or download the episode here.
Shinigami052
about 1 year ago
yeah I just sent another email to Jim about this problem. Seriously production crew just stop it already!
moojaaan
about 1 year ago
No need to send an e-mail, guys. The next few shows will have the LCD shot because we film episodes in large batches. But in a few more weeks, that shot shall disappear. We listen, don't worry.
HUGS ALL AROUND.
- MZ
HUGS ALL AROUND.
- MZ
joeyrock
about 1 year ago
Well hugs right back at ya then :)
Put out memo to check here more often though. Pixel Perfect forum is forgotten about most of the time. For instance is Bert going to visit?
Put out memo to check here more often though. Pixel Perfect forum is forgotten about most of the time. For instance is Bert going to visit?
Shinigami052
about 1 year ago
I don't think Bert ever actually does visit. I usually send him an email with my requests.
BTW we've heard you do shows in batches but it's been almost 3 months since we've had problems with you guys using the LCD+camera thing. So unless you're filming 12 episodes and only shoot once every 3 months. It's a moot point.
Oh and P.S. I know you guys have shot new episodes because I've emailed Jim about this the first time before you guys had started the user backgrounds thing.
Hugs to you too but don't jive us. Just tell us the truth about what's going on. If you guys like using the LCD+camera thing then tell us you're not getting rid of it instead of saying you'll consider it.
BTW we've heard you do shows in batches but it's been almost 3 months since we've had problems with you guys using the LCD+camera thing. So unless you're filming 12 episodes and only shoot once every 3 months. It's a moot point.
Oh and P.S. I know you guys have shot new episodes because I've emailed Jim about this the first time before you guys had started the user backgrounds thing.
Hugs to you too but don't jive us. Just tell us the truth about what's going on. If you guys like using the LCD+camera thing then tell us you're not getting rid of it instead of saying you'll consider it.
Smeerkaas
about 1 year ago
Wow. Just wow. There I was .. all excited. Good audio. A properly keyed Bert. This was gonna be a great episode. And then the zooming and panning began. Half the time I couldn't see what Bert was doing. Wonderful.
Why oh why does a great show need to be mamed by overly complicated production 'value'? Just show people the desktop, so we can all actually learn from what is being taught. Please!
Why oh why does a great show need to be mamed by overly complicated production 'value'? Just show people the desktop, so we can all actually learn from what is being taught. Please!
kahunablair
about 1 year ago
In reply to Smeerkaas:
Wow. Just wow. There I was .. all excited. Good audio. A properly keyed Bert. This was gonna be a great episode. And then the zooming and panning began. Half the time I couldn't see what Bert was doing. Wonderful.
Why oh why does a great show need to be mamed by overly complicated production 'value'? Just show people the desktop, so we can all actually learn from what is being taught. Please!
Why oh why does a great show need to be mamed by overly complicated production 'value'? Just show people the desktop, so we can all actually learn from what is being taught. Please!
Jesus, man! Look three posts up!
They said they are fixing the problem.
BenKing
about 1 year ago
They said they were fixing the problem months ago. Seriously. They still haven't.
recklessftw
about 1 year ago
Good episode I think, I like to see how Bert makes the smoke and stuff, that's always cool. Plus the fire from the rocket is neat... so easy to get something that looks good!
I agree with the others, the camera plus LCD isn't cool but like was stated, they are going to fix that in the next little while so I won't gripe.
I agree with the others, the camera plus LCD isn't cool but like was stated, they are going to fix that in the next little while so I won't gripe.










Really?
Good episode but wtf.