The following tutorials will show the steps followed to create the One Cage logo animation shown above. On the left is the original logo supplied to me by my client. The thumbnails on the right are from the finished animation. These tutorials are intended as a review for my animation students, but the techniques presented will be useful to anyone using 3d Studio MAX.

PART 1: Creating the text shapes in Photoshop and exporting them.
PART 2: Importing the Illustrator file into MAX as an Editable Spline.
PART 3: Setting up the Camera View and background image.
PART 4: Positioning the Text and creating a Sphere.
PART 5: Embedding the Text onto the Sphere with Shape Merge.
PART 6: Extruding the Text with Mesh Select and Extrude Faces.
PART 7: Using Edit Mesh to setup Material ID's.
PART 8: Creating a Multi/Sub-Object Material.
PART 9: Setting up the lighting.
PART 10: Using a path controller to animate a directional light
PART 11: Using a lathed spline to creat the comet
PART 12: Using Deform Path to animate the comet