Discord 3D Wired Magazine Cover
Not Just for Gamers
This is My Discord 3D WIRED Magazine Cover. The goal of this project was to create a concept for a tech startup company and create a 3D modeled magazine cover for WIRED or Fast Company.
I chose Discord for my tech startup company. Discord is a voice chat app where users can talk, text, or have video conversation in a chat channel. Discord is mainly marketed to gamers, so I created a concept where Discord would start to market itself as an app that can be used for business use.
Sketches
As always, I started sketching ideas for the potential cover. My concept originally was to sell Discord for how it was, a voice chat app for gamers. However, after researching Discord, it was clear that they were alienating a lot of different audiences that could benefit from their services. For the final sketch, I created a sketch of the Discord mascot, Wumpus, sitting on a three level podium with its competitors, Skype and Slack. The concept represents Discord being placed in higher regard than its competitors.
Illustrator Render
Next, I created a layout in Illustrator so I could decide on color and font choices. Most of the colors were sampled from Discord’s website, and the original logo colors.
Modeling in Cinema 4D
Once everything was laid out and color choices were finalized, it was time to head over to Cinema 4D and start modeling. Since the model is in 3D space, I had to move some elements around in comparison to the original illustrator render. For example, in the final modeled render, I moved the extra text to the bottom left and positioned the podium on the right.
I also added a blue ribbon on the Discord podium rather than have the numbers on all three podiums. The numbers were too distracting. Each podium also had a different color that was sampled from the logos.
Here’s the teaser video of the process:
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