For today’s number, I had the idea to do a Broadway light, but since I had already had designs for both B and L I moved the idea to the numbers section, and I thought that 3 had a nice shape that would do the design justice!
This one posed some unique challenges, first and foremost, I thought it would be a good idea to make a light source inside a glass sphere surrounded by a reflective material, and that that would be something that would be pain-free to render. Oh boy. I was wrong, it must be a trend now that the numbers have to crash or almost crash my machine when rendering.
Luckily though I figured out a cheat method that would allow me to only render out a dozen or so frames and still sell the effect of a full-length GIF. Between 3 and N I’ve come to learn that it if you can’t do it practically in Maya, you can more than likely fake it in After Effects.
Final Product
Behind the Scenes