Circuit City

September 9th, 2016

Making circuits! After trying to create something large, I thought I should try to make something small!

I started by taking a circuitry texture and placing it on a plane in Element 3D. I used the texture in the Glossiness channeland the reflection channel to give the pathways a metalic look. Next I built the circuits using various primitives like box and cylinder at various sizes and placed them around the board near the components of the texture. I couldn't help myself and I ended up adding some motion design elements like the power core and microchips. It's amazing how some random object suddenly looks like a fancy heatsink (heat-sync?) in the right context.

And finally for the micro look, I turned on some camera depth of field!

I've included thecircuit texturebelow so you can try it out!

Andrew Kramer

POSTED:

9 years ago

75 Comments

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8 years ago

tank you.
goooood.

pcmate

8 years ago

nice

Carlos Sandoval

8 years ago

This post is probably out of place... but Element3D assuming is a type of graphic game engine, will it be possible to incorporate a fur technology like NeoFur in the near future? It's on Unreal and Unity3D and it would make it so much easier for the Element3D user community.

- Element3d fan

Jerry

9 years ago

Is there a tutorial for this?

Albert

9 years ago

How do you create layer texturing in element 3D, like the metallic glossy circuit and flat matte black on the board itself. Is there a way to create an alpha map texture for the metallic lines and layer it on top of a flat matte black board?

Mike

9 years ago

I think you use the exact same texture of the circuit board that he gave, and use it as a reflective map.

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9 years ago

Good luck Andrew

Sofiane.HD

9 years ago

Amazing Tools !!
Good luck Andrew!.

Ray

9 years ago

What happened to the Circuit board download, where can I find it?

Gismoxan

9 years ago

A Fight Scene Short Movie ............ https://youtu.be/Ysey8FgjN3U

Digiphic

9 years ago

Great pack with high details.

Good luck Andrew!.

Digiphic Studio
http://www.digiphic.com

La Reserve

9 years ago

It has Inspired us this week-end to create our very own small circuit city. We ended up creating a small pack of Element 3D models including a resistance, a transistor, a diode and chips of different size. All of them created inside Element 3D by combining different primitives together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn6uyBS5xkU

EYE

9 years ago

Super cool! Looking at what you did above, I have some new ideas... as usual. Thanks!
Ah... for future releases of Pro shaders would be good if we had textures in 8K res or even 16K. You think it would be possible?

9 years ago

anyone have a walk through on how to accomplish this ?

Amir

9 years ago

I wanted to do a circuit render for a project I'm working on, and then I look at your blog and find what I had in mind. It's like this site is reading my mind

Great work.

Here are my attempts
https://vimeo.com/184179288
https://vimeo.com/184179293
https://vimeo.com/184179291
https://vimeo.com/184179290
https://vimeo.com/184179292

Lee Masters

9 years ago

What am I doing wrong? I take time to produce a great looking masterpiece, using Element 3D's various tools and models. I light it like a stage pro! I take it to the highest quality render and get a real bag of flikering puss!!!!

Any ideas as to what setting in AE I have missed?

Sevrin

9 years ago

Enough with the showreel posts guys.

We get it, you follow the tutorials just like the rest of us.

StevenJ

9 years ago

StevenJ

9 years ago

I disagree. You guys just keep on posting. I think that is what Andrew is trying to encourage. It's good practice, even if you are "just following tutorials." And posting stuff for others to see is good motivation to keep trying. If you want a challenge though, see how close you can get to Andrew's renders that don't come with tutorials...

Vix

9 years ago

@StevenJ - Here we go again...another person who thinks they are the voice for Andrew.

StevenJ

9 years ago

@Vix - seriously? I mean, I'm not trying to speak for anyone. There is a circuit texture here. There are hints pointing you in the direction of making a render. Posted by Andrew, it looks like. I guess I'm just way out of touch here. Hey guys I was wrong. Delete Element 3d, along with anything you may have downloaded from here. And stop rendering stuff. (sarcasm)

StevenJ

9 years ago

"I?ve included the circuit texture below so you can try it out!"

Opa Grampz

9 years ago

Honestly, you both have the right opinion.
To copy the tutorials is good for teaching the handling of Element 3D.
Filling the Internet with unnecessary "test render" is stupid.
It is better to create something new from the gained knowledge.
Greetings from Switzerland and nice Christmas.
Peace

kurt murphy

9 years ago

LOVE this plug-in, Andrew! Here's an Element helmet drop:
https://vimeo.com/155200464

Radcraig

9 years ago

I'm sure this has been requested before but I'd really love to see a screengrab or list of the render and output settings. I've been using Element for a while now and while my results have improved quite a bit lately I still feel my renders could use a couple of tweaks to go one step further.

Mike L Taylor

9 years ago

Very much agree. Or maybe even post the project files? Ray tracing and AO settings definitely help but would love to see the special sauce up close.

Damdaran

9 years ago

Good job.

Christian Michael

9 years ago

The silence is very exciting..... the calm before the storm?

Christian Michael
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQytCQsgaCY&list

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Doug

9 years ago

Here is a quick logo reveal of my favorite NFL team using some Video Copilot plugins and a bit of particular as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYsfHDGgs3I

lovelysoul

9 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A25O2jkm00

baha

9 years ago

terrible

bharath

9 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx_vET1FEeNPeqKxeTDByjw/videos

phillip

9 years ago

i used element 3d for sound booth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky5kqO4NX8k&feature=share

Luccassino

9 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-_Bki65Pfg

wim

9 years ago

Very nice

Florian

9 years ago

Pls. Make a Tutorial AK! It looks so great! pls pls pls

Simon Thorley

9 years ago

Common Kramerman, I need a fix!

Eugene

9 years ago

Wow! As usual you never fail to inspire us!

By the way, can you please make a tutorial on how to create realistic looking crystal in Element 3D? I'm dying to create a model similar to this photo :http://www.iycr2014.org/__data/assets/image/0005/96539/Crystal-logo-2014.jpg

Michael Angelo Hernandez

9 years ago

https://youtu.be/UHoaX9meAmI

You are Jesus with your awesome blog posts and we all are Moses, Waiting for the tutorials that we have come to love and respect you as the head of VC!

Jeff

9 years ago

Hey guys,
Just made a WIP with BB-8 and Aliens (from rroobboo). Check it out and let me know what you think! https://youtu.be/yxuloDE6x5A

johnsnow

9 years ago

displacement would be nice????

Millad

9 years ago

I love you Andrew

Fatmir

9 years ago

MakeHuman and Element 3d v.2.2
Hope you like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C-ofMpeNnA

John

9 years ago

Thanks Kramer:

https://vimeo.com/182276667

Deva

9 years ago

Please watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTSNbhcgB4I

Super hero Landing 2

lovelysoul

9 years ago

3D Showreel 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A25O2jkm00

TJ Koker

9 years ago

Looks like something straight out of Tron: Legacy.

Nick

9 years ago

Andrew can you tell us what is Energy Conversation advanced option inside Element 3D
Thanks

Brando

9 years ago

Dope!

Would love to see how you do your low altitude fly-over camera movements like in the opening of Saber trailer

Creatif Sanju

9 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NouhWQfF9Ls

Creatif Sanju

9 years ago

Awesome AK.

James

9 years ago

Any chance of a project file download?
This is amazing!

XinGeR

9 years ago

he' andrew, it's been a while we did not hear your voice ;D; c'mon make tutorials and talk to us.

johnsnow

9 years ago

element need displacement by texture

TokyoJames

9 years ago

This is great! Love seeing the blog so active. I know the tutorials are fun to watch for everyone but they take so long to make. These are just perfect and give just enough info and inspiration for people to get crackin on their own. Tight work, man (as always)

Jimmy

9 years ago

Hi Andrew and the team ! Little question for E3D. I see in your Show at NAB, a future new option in E3D, for comunicate with C4D. When this update come ?

And with this new option, it's possible to import the lights and the camera of the C4D project ? ( like Cineware option but it's not really good with E3D ).
Thank you for your reply and have a great day.
Jim.

William Ehrendreich

9 years ago

I gave it a quick try too! I happened to have a circuit image that I used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uReNt5jMCiw

Jason T

9 years ago

Man, this Circuit City looks state of the art!

Lyndon

9 years ago

Miss those days, lolz

John

9 years ago

Andrew give us tutoirals !
Dont like this screenshot stuff !

art

9 years ago

exactly

TokyoJames

9 years ago

nah, this is good. good inspiration and makes us WORK to get a good product (making us better artists)

Gabe

9 years ago

John, instead of being walked through everything and never growing as an artist, why don't you try thinking for yourself and coming up with something of your own.

rahul

9 years ago

team,
we saw motion pulse trailer and was amazed by visuals
we are college students and are organizing a tech fest ,with your permission we would request you that we will edit the below trailer and add our college fest name ,
1.we wont publish on youtube except in our fb page
2.we don't earn anything out of it
3.our college is not so famous ,not even to the city within 20km radius
we are really impressed b your video .we will be obliged if you give us the permission .waiting for your reply
thank you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjdhMVH4dZw

Pixy

9 years ago

I had done a element 3d opener animation and animation with free project file.
http://designjunkie.in/2015/12/3d-element-opener-for-free/
please check this out

lovelysoul

9 years ago

my Showreel 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A25O2jkm00

Matthew Jelly

9 years ago

Andrew man, I've been following your work for years and now I'm actually making a living thanks in part to your education. I've started using element quite a bit lately and it's an amazing package, seeing what you are able to achieve with it really inspires me. Here's my first full intro animation, I should have layed out UV's and created some original textures but I got a little lazy, plus the pro shaders pack is great. https://vimeo.com/182059956

Chris

9 years ago

Love the video! Good job.

John

9 years ago

Awesome!

kurt murphy

9 years ago

Wow, great feel!

Javascript function

9 years ago

Interesting.

Dany

9 years ago

Amazing Thanks

Kevin

9 years ago

Ah Circuit City...I miss that store

jaseem harry

9 years ago

That is really beautiful. You always manages to pull of something great from scratch. Real inspiration you are...

CRoblex

9 years ago

Just uploaded an experiment using some Motion Design 2 models with Element v02. I've used that chromatic aberration too and that's pretty cool! But the multi-pass DoF was too slow, so I've used Pixel DoF besides the glow and the motion blur. I hope you like it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_vQ4EGrhkM&feature=youtu.be

Daniel

9 years ago

Genial, Carlos. Sigo tus trabajos de cerca desde hace unos cuantos a?os, son una buena fuente de inspiraci?n

Daniel
http://bit.ly/dglorenzo

CRoblex

9 years ago

Gracias, Daniel! Has visto la ?ltima chapucilla que he subido a Vimeo?
https://vimeo.com/181559158
The password is "password"

Tu reel tambi?n tiene algunas cosillas interesantes, sigue as?!

Daniel

9 years ago

Muy interesante la "chapucilla"

Adem?s de bien explicado el workflow. Voy a comenzar a trastear con Photoscan, pinta genial. Gracias por postearlo!

Mark

9 years ago

This might work for you for some landscapes: https://sellfy.com/p/GB15/

Axis FX - His YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJT_4Rt_dh3uDiWlEwHBspw

GhayRat

9 years ago

Very beautiful !!

CRoblex

9 years ago

That looks pretty nice. It's like seeing Iron Man... from the inside, hahaha.

Simon Thorley

9 years ago

Great detail, as always - the possibilities are endless, would love to see some landscapes and terrain pack - mountains, deserts, oceans, polar, etc... - all in a 'pay for pack' - of course.

KC at NIU

9 years ago

I like that idea Simon! I've been looking at some terrain files on ShareCG. They were all made with Bryce, so there isn't a great selection of subtlety and mapping the obj files to look good in E3D can be quite the challenge.

CRoblex

9 years ago

I'm afraid Vue Xtreme will continue being the standard software for digital terrains for a while yet, guys. I'm an old Bryce user (really, really old, haha), but Vue is hundreds of times more powerful. And much slower, of course. Anyway, there is nothing like Vue in order to create digital landscapes in 3D.

If you want to play with realistic terrains using Element, I would recommend the use of some Photogrammetry software in combination with Element and After Effects. Please, check out one of my latest VFX shots here, and it's complete breakdown, and you'll see what I mean:

https://vimeo.com/181559158
The password is "password"

xantos

9 years ago

@CRoblex that's very cool! and gives me more tools and ideas. So much appreciated!

Patrick

9 years ago

I use World Machine for my terrains. In combination with Quixel Megascans textures you'll get the most realistic results.

CRoblex

9 years ago

Thanks for the info, Patrick. Both softwares look great. I guess you're using the full versi?n of World Machine, right? Because the trial version doesn't allowe you to use many polygons...

Shirel

9 years ago

Here's my try at creating a cloud city with element

https://youtu.be/QomYY72L1q4

solaiappan

9 years ago

Please Do a tutorial For like this DOF in After Effect For element 3D...

Mikel

9 years ago

Hi Andrew!

Is that 100% AE camera DOF? 'Multi Pass' DOF Mode? Or you have used a depth map + DOF plug-in (Frischluft). That bokeh looks pretty organic!

Chipio

9 years ago

That's awesome, I love it!

Bob Vance

9 years ago

"heat-sync", what a noob!

csibe

9 years ago

What kind of light setup do you use?

Tom

9 years ago

Looks great. I love how adding some simple objects, such as the basic primitives, come together like greeble on a space ship to make things look "real". Thanks for sharing the circuit board texture, too.

StevenJ

9 years ago

Hey thanks for sharing the circuit texture! I was working out a way to take a screenshot so I could try making this!

Joseph

9 years ago

Inspirational as always! Thanks for sharing

SanyamGoel

9 years ago

How do you Achieve that Chromatic Aberration effect?
Do we expect a tutorial in the future?

Dada

9 years ago

Every time I see that I am wondering how can I do that... Nothing, never found useful info about chromatic aberration... Tutorial would be nice!

CRoblex

9 years ago

Maybe I could help you guys here.

There are several ways to achieve color aberration in After Effects, with and without external plug-ins. Of course, with a plug-in is faster and simplier:

1. With plug-in "Simple RGB Separation":
This plug-in is included in the pack "Universe Distort" from Red Giant and it works pretty easy: just select the separation between color channels and that's all.

2. With Plug-in "Chromatic aberration":
This is another plug-in included in the "Universe Distort" pack from Red Giant, but this one is much powerful and complex. It gives you the oportunity of playing around with many other features, like the dirt in the lens, the lens distortion and the scale of each channel.

3. With the Effect "Channel Combiner", included in After Effects:
If you apply the Channel Combiner to a layer, you can choose "From blue-to blue only" and then do the same thing duplicating twice the layer for the red and the green channel.

If you set the upper two layers in Screen mode and leave as Normal the lower one, you'll have your separate RGB channels in the 3 layers and will be able to move, scale or distort them separately as you wish.

I hope you'll find it helpful!

CRoblex

9 years ago

Oh, but sorry: in this case, I'm afraid it was Element itself. You'll get realistic color and lens aberrations playing with the Depth of Field and the camera settings.

CRoblex

9 years ago

Exactly, I found it: there is a "Chromatic difraction" submenu in the Glow settings in Element v02. You can play with those options to get something interesting with the highlights setting the Luminance as source for the glow.

cloclo

9 years ago

http://aescripts.com/ft-lens-distortion/
Been using it for years now, slower than the Looks one, but a bit more precise. If speed matters I use Looks.

f1ash

9 years ago

cloclo, the problem of this (and almost all other) CA plugin is that the effect does look like the RGB channel separation. Not like the chromatic aberration. It simply shifts the RGB channels, it doesnt blur em.

Christian Michael

9 years ago

Now this looks very very slick! The circuit board really has fabulous detail and looks very real.... In the reel.

Christian Michael
https://vimeo.com/181111812

Drake

9 years ago

Awesome! Love the hidden VC logo.

mani

9 years ago

hi AK what about v2.5 .i think u r in working process,,,,,

mani

9 years ago

wow amazing AK

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