After a brief­ing or short inter­view with the client I’ll do (if nec­es­sary) research by Google Image Search and by cre­at­ing con­cep­tual sketches. After that I’ll pick the most com­mu­nica­tive one. I’ll show this to the client and adjust, tweak until I’m con­tent. This will be used for ref­er­ence in Cinema 4D.

After the brain­storm and sketch fase I’ll create a 3D mock-​up in Cinema 4D. At first I’ll use this rough impres­sion for the client, later I’ll use it in Adobe Pho­to­shop for the finale fase. All images are cre­ated at 2000×2000 pixels, this high-​res ver­sion is also usable for mar­ket­ing, print or packaging.

In this fase I’ll clean up the gen­er­ated image from Cinema 4D. For exam­ple I can add extra shad­ows, refec­tions, refrac­tions or tex­tures for more real­ism. When I’m sat­is­fied I’ll show this final ver­sion to the client and after his approval I’ll create the smaller ver­sions (which also have visual corrections).

If there are exist­ing icons I’ll com­pare them side-​by-​side to see if the improve­ments are sat­is­fy­ing enough. On the left side the old icons on the right side the newly cre­ated ones.