3D Fake Product Boxes.

How to do it Easy

[nxfx]

Hello,

i know we all did it 100000 Times, this 3D Fake Product Boxes..
and i read a lot of Tuts etc, But now i have to build like 500 Product Boxes
is there an easier way, like some kind of Action or SOmething?

Thank you

[limbo]

Hi NXFX

If your original images are all the same size you could record a command or action in an image editor. It wouldn't be fool proof but you could certainly get the majority of the work done.

Batch Processing [webmasterworld.com]

Also, I can pretty much guarantee there will be a plug-in or standalone software for it - a search for "product box maker software" turned up a raft of sites in that area.

[Kemmerson]

Why not try CSS instead to build a fake product box? That way if you want to completely change your site design you can do quite easily, and the pictures will be a smaller size.

Perhaps you could expand the #*$! dropshadow technique:
[#*$!.com...]

It'll take a bit of work but it might be worth it.

[pmkpmk]

I'm usually using a full blown 3D application for this. However I need 3D artwork for other things too, so its a side-product. If you are doing it in 3D in the first place, you have all options to change perspectives, lighting, shadows etc.

But of course with 500 titles this might be a challenge. My 3D application can use a network rendering process. It is possible to batch-create the configuration files, so as long as the source images have the same dimensions it has to be fairly easy.

[edesigner]

hi,
there are many scripts in the market which you need to add to Photoshop and some are Standalone softwares, whcih create that 3D shape for you. They normally range from $45-200.

I myself design these boxes, but I create the shape manually with my knowledge of Photoshop.

Stephen

[groover 1234]

I've made a basic application in Flash for doing this. It's lacks a nice GUI because it's only been for me but it calculates the box from a series of variables and applies perpective to it. I don't have lighting on it because I don't want lighting but you could easily export an alpha map and do your lighting in Photoshop manually.

If it's useful to you, I could spare some time to make a GUI for it. Currently I just screenshot the display but I could also make it export a JPEG too.

Let me know if you want this.

~groover

[pmkpmk]

Though I might lose a contract here, I dug a bit and found the solution for the scenario where you use a full featured 3D application (as I do):

Make all the different textures the same size

From the single textures, create an animated texture, where each frame consists of a new image

Render a movie with the same framelength as you have single textures

Set the output settings to single images

So if you have 500 textures, you create a single, animated texture with 500 frames. Then you render a movie(!) with 500 frames, and store the result as single images. So for each new frame in the movie you get a single image with the box rendered with a fresh texture image.

You can even add a slow camera movement to the movie render, so you get slightly different angles each time.

Hope that helps. Anybody interested in outsourcing such a job send me a sticky.