Blender for 3D logo

[irishgrizzly]

Would people recommend Blender for taking a 2D Illustrator logo so it can be rotated (not animated). Or is there a better program.

I tried Illustrators 3D tool, but I think the object may be too complex for it as it has 45 degree bevels at the joins.

 

[LeviG]

Blender should be able to do that fine as long as it can import and then be extruded (this adds the 3D depth if you don't know )

 

[irishgrizzly]

Thanks, do you know a format to export to from Illy? I tried the autocad formats but they were grayed out when I tried to open (import).

 

[Claytoniss]

Blender likes .svgs. Make sure your original file is very clean and doesn't have any stray points floating around.

 

[irishgrizzly]

Blender likes .svgs. Make sure your original file is very clean and doesn't have any stray points floating around.

Thanks I'll try that. Can anyone recommend any guides for a noob?

 

[Claytoniss]

I buried myself online for the last two months looking at tutorials.

There's a book called Blender 3D: Architecture, Buildings and Scenery. Also http://www.blender3darchitect.com/

Heavily based of of the yafaray raytracing engine.

Remember that blender is open sourced. Save your work a lot and in stages!