affinity designer Product Design

[velarde]

Hello.

 

Just wanted to share this quick design made with Affinity Designer.

 

Had an old line of products done with Photoshop and Illustrator. https://www.totalfix.com.mx But now migrating the workflow to Affinity products for Packaging, Branding and promotional materials. Brochures, posters, business cards, etc.

By the way, the Client was looking over the shoulder as I did some adjustments and asked about what software I was using. Had some time to do a little evangelizing of the Affinity Line,. He was happy with the results.

 

[MattP]

Looks fantastic!

[Mark Oehlschlager]

Very nice 3D rendering!

But now I must ask: since Designer has neither a perspective grid feature, nor a vector warping tool, how did you manage to draw your bucket in perspective and then to convincingly warp the product label around the cylindrical form of the bucket?

[velarde]

Hello Mark

 

Actually I just designed the label in Affinity Designer.

I exported it as a texture (png) and mapped it to a 3D model. The render part was done in Cinema 4D and then retouched it in Affinity Photo.

From Cinema I export as a layered PSD file so I have more control of the render passes: Illumination, Color, Shadows Ambient Occlusion, etc.

 

[Mark Oehlschlager]

Ah! I see. That makes sense. Thanks for the reply.

 

[Jowday]

On 7/1/2019 at 9:11 PM, Mark Oehlschlager said:

Very nice 3D rendering!

But now I must ask: since Designer has neither a perspective grid feature, nor a vector warping tool, how did you manage to draw your bucket in perspective and then to convincingly warp the product label around the cylindrical form of the bucket?

On 7/1/2019 at 9:44 PM, velarde said:

Actually I just designed the label in Affinity Designer.

I exported it as a texture (png) and mapped it to a 3D model. The render part was done in Cinema 4D and then retouched it in Affinity Photo. From Cinema I export as a layered PSD file so I have more control of the render passes: Illumination, Color, Shadows Ambient Occlusion, etc.

OK, now it makes sense 

Well done via clever workflow outside Designer.

[velarde]

Hi, thanks Jowday

Its the same workflow I've been using for a couple of years. But now instead of using Photoshop and Illustrator I'm replacing them with Photo and Designer.

And hopefully will soon start working on a PDF and Print catalog for them using Publisher. Which by the way I just bought  to support Serif and thinking I may never use it in my work.  But now I've been including  it slowly to my workflow (and happy now that I did).

 Perfect Timing.....