Science and Technology 22: Oh my colors! by Elcet

Cinema 4D • Science/Medical • posted on Aug 03, 2007

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My last post of the Science & Technology series, n° 21, was posted October 3rd, 2006. This is now a tutorial plate to explain the need of a color management system made of ICC profiles when producing color images for professional printing purposes. I did that for my Photoshop teaching. Here the young graphic designer, Eliette, is disappointed when Leon, the offset press worker, shows her a badly printed sample because of lack of a decent color profile. The three people in the scene were created in N-Sided Quidam. I modeled all the technical devices in Cinema 4D R9.0. N-Sided Quidam is a true benefit when you are trying to pose characters in C4D because the Quidam export plugin (sold separately of the app) keeps the bone system and all the textures.

Comments (13)

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helanker

1:32PM | Fri, 03 August 2007

What a huge project you are having here. It looks very nice. Well done :)))

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2Loose2Trek

2:46PM | Fri, 03 August 2007

I have a difficult time comprehending all the work that went into creating this wonderful work. Fantastically well done!!!

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Elcet

2:30AM | Sat, 04 August 2007

Answer to Gene (2Loose2Trek): My purpose was to show all the elements of the graphic chain in a small printing-house, from the production of images to the finished print. Therefore, we see: the graphic designer (Eliette) sitting in front of her computer (central unit, keyboard, mouse, TFT screen), on a table where you also see a A3 inkjet printer, a special CTP printer to produce offset plates, a flat scanner, a film scanner, a compact digital camera and some A3 paper. Left of Eliette, you see which looks like a tall refrigerator, but which is in fact an exposure cabin, which is a kind of enlarger to produce offset plates. In front of the manager of the enterprise, Peter, there is a flashing device to transform computer files into plate exposures. Behind him, on the right of the image, there is the biggest machine of the workshop: the offset press. This is made of four main units, each one printing one color, namely yellow, magenta, cyan and black (RGB color cannot be printed through the offset process). Evidently all that 3D stuff does not exist already made, so I had to model it from scratch (because I am illustrator and not printer, I had to find documents to achieve it, and also I made a lot of sketches in a real printing workshop). This was done in Cinema 4D R9.0, and the three Quidam people, namely Eliette, Leon and Peter were posed in this scene. I also modeled the room and the wooden floor, but the seat of Eliette is a C4D freestuff offered by Zangdar on the www.frenchcinema4d.com site.

Valerie-Ducom

6:27AM | Sat, 04 August 2007

Oh, très original scene et des excellents graphiques sur ces nombreux matériaux ! Excellent mon grand :)

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Claywoman

9:10AM | Sat, 04 August 2007

Wow this is an awesome piece!

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dphoadley

11:00AM | Sun, 05 August 2007

Excellent! No other word applies! DPH

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tralfaz

11:02AM | Tue, 07 August 2007

Wonderful scene (and educational) about the offset printing world. I see you have put much work into this and are soon becoming a 3D master!!!! lol. Excellent work my friend :)

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