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Hussain Almossawi on Aug 11th 2010 with 31 comments

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Create a plane with the following settings, 21.6cm x 28cm

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Hold shift and clone the Plane.

Step 5
Rotate it at some angle to show the folder is open.

Step 6
Hold down alt+A and click the other plane, and use the following settings to align the two edges together.

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Step 7
Group all of the pieces and name the group “Folder”.

Step 8
Next we will do the business cards. Create a New Box with the following settings- Length: 5.2 cm, Width: 8.2
cm, Height: .03 cm

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Step 9
Rotate the card so that its somehow lying or leaning back on the folder.

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Step 10
Duplicate the card.

Step 11
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Rotate it more and place it in front of the first card, making sure it doesn’t block anything yet look natural by
leaning on the first card or the folder.

Step 12
Group those 2 and call them “Cards”

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Step 13
Next we will create the letterheads, Create a new plane, I’m using US Letter sized paper for my
measurements which will be 8.5″ x 11″ (21.6cm x 28cm).

Step 14
Duplicate the Plane by holding Shift and dragging up just a bit, we want to place the new plane over the first
plane

Step 15
Rotate the new Plane sideways 5 degrees, to make it look like the papers have been placed naturally.

Step 16
Group those sheets together and call it “Letterheads”.

Step 17
Now the calendar. Select the line tool.

Step 18
Draw an isosceles triangular shape.

Step 19
Right Click your line, select Refine, and place a dot in the middle of your triangle base.

Step 20
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Raise the dot just a bit from the surface.

Step 21
Select your 3 Corners.

Step 22
Use the Fillet tool to round the corners, use it manually by clicking and dragging the dots.

Step 23
Go into the Spline Mode and select your line.

Step 24
Use the Outline tool, click and drag towards the inside, or apply a value of .25cm.

Step 25
Use the Extrude Tool from the Modifier List, with a value of 10.2cm.

Step 26
Now we will make the pages/cover for the front and back of the Calendar. Create a new Plane, Length:
14.5cm Width: 10cm, with the following segments, Length: 3 Width: 25

Step 27
Right click and convert to Editable Poly.

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Step 28
Select the inner segments of the first row.

Step 29
Press ‘Loop’.

Step 30
Click the Chamfer Tool, and use a value of .08cm.

Step 31
Select the first inner horizontal segment.

Step 32
Move it to the top to give it some margin.

Step 33
Repeat the same Step for the second horizontal segment, Placing it right under the first, allowing it to create
somewhat of a square shape where the binder ring will go through.

Step 34
Select the new created square spaces (polygons) across the top of the boxes.

Step 35
Press the delete key on your keyboard.

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Step 36
Select all your polygons.

Step 37
Select the Extrude tool and apply a value of .2cm.

Step 38
Rotate the box, and place it appropriately on top of the stand we created earlier.

Step 39
Select your box and use the Mirror Tool.

Step 40
Position it appropriately to the back side of the stand.

Step 41
Now we will create the Spiral Rings across the top that will hold all the pages together. Create a Torus
Shape, with these values, Radius1: 2.4cm, Radius 2: 0.25cm.

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Step 42
Place it on top of the stand, making it go nicely through both holes in the front and back.

Step 43
Hold shift and drag the Torus to the next hole.

Step 44
Set the number of copies to 23, unless you have more holes in your version.

Step 45
Group all those and call it “Calendar”

Step 46
Moving on to the Notebook which is done exact same way as the calendar. Create a new Plane Length:
14.4cm Width: 8.5cm, with the following segments, Length: 25 Width 3.

Step 47
Right Click the Plane and convert to Editable Poly.

Step 48
Select the first inner vertical segment and move it to the side giving it some margin.

Step 49
Repeat the same step for the second vertical segment, placing it right next to the first, allowing it to create
somewhat of a square shape where the binder ring will go through

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Step 50
Select all of the inner horizontal segments.

Step 51
Click the Chamfer Tool, and use a value of .08cm.

Step 52
Select the newly created square spaces you just created.

Step 53
Get rid of them by pressing the Delete key.

Step 54
Select All polygons.

Step 55
Extrude the Polygons with a value of .04cm.

Step 56
Hold shift and drag the plane on top of the original one to clone it.

Step 57
Go back to Polygon mode. Your polygons should already be selected but if not, select the polygons on the

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top side.

Step 58
Extrude with a value of .22cm.

Step 59
Now select both planes you just created, and select the Mirror tool with these settings.

Step 60
Move the new clone of the two boxes on top just a bit, so that they’re not perfectly aligned with the ones
underneath them.

Step 61
Now create the side rings just as we did in STEP 41.

Step 62
Group all of these objects and call it “Notebook”.

Step 63
Final step, creating the CD, Start by making a Tube with these values, Radius 1: 5.2cm, Radius 2: .7cm,
Height .03cm, Sides 36.

Step 64
Right Click, convert to Editable Poly.

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Step 65
Select one of the Edges and Press Ring to select all of the inner segments.

Step 66
Select the Connect Tool from the side toolbar and make the Slide value -65.

Step 67
Select the Chamfer Tool, and give it an amount of .02cm.

Step 68
Hold down Shift and select the Polygons icon to select those polygons.

Step 69
Use the Extrude Tool and give it an amount of .-.025cm, Call it CD.

Step 70
Now we have all our stationary materials ready, lets put everything in place! Once done, we should be left
with something like this. That’s it for the first part. In the second part to this tutorial we’ll cover the Materials,
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casko August 11, 2010 at 1:12 pm

nice one, would love something like this for c4d in video, but its still useful to me, thanks
you!

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Skyrill August 11, 2010 at 1:24 pm

Sure thing, you should be able to use the same principles for C4D or any other 3d app.

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Alan Monroig August 11, 2010 at 3:05 pm

Great!! This tutorial is extremely useful!

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Skyrill August 12, 2010 at 6:27 am

glad you like it

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 Trizicklo August 11, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Wow! This looks absolutely AWESOME!!! I’ve been wanting to do something like this to
display my work for the longest time. Great tutorial.

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Matt Brealey August 11, 2010 at 6:07 pm

Glad you like it! Part two is just as awesome

Matt
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Skyrill August 12, 2010 at 6:27 am

great

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Sorg August 11, 2010 at 6:28 pm

Really Nice, i love it.

Thanks from Brazil.

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Skyrill August 12, 2010 at 6:29 am

thanks glad you enjoyed it!!

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haqzaf August 11, 2010 at 7:46 pm

Hi,
Thanks Hussain.

My progress link:

http://haqzaf.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2w64oe

This modeling is carried out in Blender softwre.

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Skyrill August 12, 2010 at 6:29 am

hey hazqzaf,

nice start, keep us posted with what you end up with…

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Nimal August 11, 2010 at 7:59 pm

Thanks for the tutorial. I was searching for tutorial like this. expecting more.

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Skyrill August 13, 2010 at 5:03 am

thanks, hopefully you find it useful!

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 Nicholas Bester August 12, 2010 at 4:00 am
This is an awesome idea, I did this once a while ago however it was basic composition.
Great tutorial!

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Skyrill August 13, 2010 at 5:04 am

thanks man, hopefully you’ll find the second part as usefull!

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Mike August 12, 2010 at 9:00 am

Superb! looking forward to the rest of this set.

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Veizer August 12, 2010 at 10:24 am

Very useful for it’s complexity. looking forward for the Lighting

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John Doe August 12, 2010 at 10:56 am

Sweet. looks great. Can’t wait to see the next tutorial

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Artjunks August 13, 2010 at 5:35 am

Yo Skyrill,

really useful…
and looks amazing…

next one pls

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Skyrill August 13, 2010 at 9:24 am

thanks appreciate it

should be up soon
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Miquel August 13, 2010 at 2:11 pm

Thanks for this great tut! … Nice render … waiting for the next tut … Greetings.

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Skyrill August 16, 2010 at 9:30 am

thx

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 magron August 17, 2010 at 2:49 pm
uhuuu!!!!!!! that’s great!!

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izoel August 23, 2010 at 4:45 am

WOW! awesome .. i know that will be easy when doing that in 2D , but when everything
goes with 3D looks amazing , I’m totally want to be an expert like this ..

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Modus August 25, 2010 at 9:42 am

Very useful. A great idea to present ID works.
Thanks

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John August 26, 2010 at 11:09 am

Where’s day 2?

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DimC August 28, 2010 at 4:22 am

Hi, nice tutorial but have u finished the second part about the lighting and the rendering
plz ? I’m really looking forward to watching it

thx

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Matt Brealey August 28, 2010 at 8:29 am

Hi DimC,

Glad you liked the tutorial! The second part is ready to be published and will be up on the site
very soon!

Thanks,

Matt
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neeraj August 31, 2010 at 8:40 am

thanks sir this one is 2 helpfull for us

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houcem September 21, 2010 at 6:23 am

Hello,
Nice work,

I think that I dont use the same version of 3ds Max as you, so I’ve hade some difficulties to
follow your tutorial,
I want to suggest you to specify the software configuration you have used, in order to help
me to find the necessary updates I must have to better exploit this tutorial.

Thank you for your efforts,

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Mendim H. October 21, 2010 at 2:47 pm

can u send me the materials of CD?

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