Creating and Animating a Flying Logo In this tutorial, you’ll learn to create a flying logo for a fictitious company named Worldwide Designs. Using shapes, modifiers, lighting effects and Video Post, you produce an animated logo. Files for This Tutorial The files for this tutorial are in the \tutorials\worldwide_designs folder. Note: All the necessary files to do the tutorials can be found on the Tutorial Files CD that ships with 3ds Max 8. Before doing the tutorials, copy the \tutorials directory from the CD to your \3dsmax8 local installation.

Creating the Earth Using Textures You will create a sphere and apply a texture map to create the illusion of a globe. Create the earth object: 1. Start or R set 3ds Max. 2. Open the Create panel and click Sphere. 3. In the Perspective viewport, move your cursor over the center of the grid, then drag out a sphere.

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