Creating a power cell icon May 15th 2008

This tutorial teaches you how to create a simple 3D models of a power cell and how to convert it to a Windows Vista-compatible icon. The icon is created entirely in RealWorld Icon Editor 2008.1.

People watching this tutorial should already know what is a 3D model and an icon. Understanding the basic computer graphics terms such as pixel, raster image, rendering, NURBS curve, etc. is a big advantage.

3D -> image -> icon

The video tutorial covers the whole process from designing a 3D model, defining a snapshot, rendering, conversion to icon, and retouching the icon.

Notes

• The tutorial does not show it, but it is a good practice to give names to the components of the 3D model.
• This tutorial also applies to previous versions of RW Icon Editor. The latest version is needed for the icon retouching section only.

Resources

• RealWorld Icon Editor 2008.1 home page.
• 3D model: power-cell.u3d
• Rendered image: power-cell.r3i
• The resulting icon: power-cell.ico

Summary

Making icons using 3D models is one of the possible ways, and most likely the fastest way to make realistic and usable icons without needing to be an artist. This tutorial is a proof 😉.

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Anonymous on June 12th 2010 0

Awesome job!

nunyahbis on August 12th 2010 0

this guy is awsome

Anonymous on April 26th 2011 0

it so verry complex
please simple program make picture into .ico file

Anonymous on September 4th 2011 0

This is really really good.

Anonymous on December 15th 2011 0

;-)Awesome!

Anonymous on February 2nd 2012 0

thanks

underdogamesman on September 24th 2012 0

On April 4th 2011 Anoymous said "it so very complex please simple program maake pictur into .ico" useing same software you can

Anonymous on January 23rd 2013 0

what about hello kitty or anything else? 😴

Anonymous on March 4th 2016 0

Awesome!!!
/Petr, Ostrava

Anonymous on April 20th 2017 0

looks good

just pls tell me how u can change the avatar on profile
i am registered but iam lazy to login 😊