BioRust Tutorial Question

[Sm86]

I got a question about one of the tutorials. Well, not really one of the tutorials

In one of the special effect tutorials, there's an image which I think is incredibly cool.

It's http://biorust.com/tutorials/ps-lightswirls/collab.jpg

I was just wondering if anyone (more specifically those who made it) could tell me how to do something like that. I get the twirls part on the left from the actual tutorial page it's on, but I just don't get the rest.

Thanks a lot!

[GoldNetX]

I'm not the creator but I would assume that the other main objects were created with a 3D program and then imported, as well as the light object on the background. Then the seems to be a layer of diagnol scanlines, a blue gradient, and a photoshop clouds overlay on top. Then the addition of a box of text on the left. If you want to learn some 3D, you shold look into learning something like Bryce, Cinema 4D, or 3D Studio Max.

[Man1c M0g]

Ahhhh, this is just a relatively simple composite. A spiral is created in a 3D modelling application (i.e. Cinema 4D, Bryce, etc), given a shiny glass material, rendered, and then extracted into photoshop. Then its just a simple case of adding scanlines, bits of text, etc.

[Sm86]

That's too bad it's made in Cinema 4D.

Thanks though for the clarification