David Benoliel & Cristian Girotto created magic in the lab with there latest futuristic series for Zink
for those of you that keep asking me how was it done well here it is.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to quickly and easily create a beautiful, futuristic portrait by applying a
plastic wrap effect or mask to a portrait using Cinema 4D and Photoshop. Let’s get started!
Tutorial Assets
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The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Please download them before you begin.
Editor’s note: Special thanks to Martin Higgs, Stefka Pavlova, and Shonagh Louise
for allowing us the use of their photo in this tutorial. The high resolution image is available on Shutterstock
but the low resolution image can be downloaded below for use in this tutorial.
Open Cinema 4D. Open Content Browser (Window > Content Browser) and go to Presets > Humans.
Double click on Lisa to add it on the stage.
Remove the unwanted body parts. Select all nested layers below the body layer and press Delete.
Press Enable Axis Modification from the left toolbar and select the blue dot at the bottom (Anchor point). Move the Anchor point of the body from the bottom to the center of the head by dragging.
Rotation check. Don’t forget to disable Axis Modification. Press Rotate tool (Top toolbar) and rotate the figure just to check the Anchor point position. After the check Undo (CMD/CTRL + Z) Rotation.
Press Polygon mode from left toolbar and select Rectangle Selection from the top toolbar. UncheckOnly Select Visible Elements. Draw a rectangle from legs to the neck with Rectangle Selection tool and press Delete.
Switch the camera view to Perspective by pressing the square icon on the top-right corner of the window.
Try to adjust the position of the head using Move, Scale and Rotate icons on the top-right corner of the window. The position of the head must match the pose and perspective of the photo.
Create new material for the head (Create > New Material) from Material Manager panel.
From Material Editor check Color and set:
From Material Editor check Reflection and set:
From Material Editor check Reflection and set:
Add the new material to Lisa layer with dragging it from material manager. Select default material and pressDelete to remove it.
Add Sky object (from top toolbar)
Creating sky material. Open Photo_Studio.jpg in Adobe Photoshop. Make one copy of the Background layer (Layer > Duplicate layer).
Extend the visible area using the Crop tool.
Move upper layer to the right using Move tool. Save the image as Photo_Studio2.jpg
Go back to Cinema 4D. Create new material for the sky. From Material Editor check Luminance and loadPhoto_Studio2.jpg as a Texture.
Drag the new material to the Sky layer.
Source: http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/plastic-mask-effect/
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