These are two ID logos I made to use for my freelance work. The bottom one is simply made on illustrator using the 3d effect and adjusting the light. I really wanted to learn some of the capabilities of photoshop cs4, and the top the a result. It took a bit longer than planned but, if I do it again, it would only take a little while. The process includes, making the outline in illustrator, exporting it as an autocad, opening it in Google sketch up (don't have another 3d program),extuding it, saving the file as a .kmz, then opening it in photoshop, applying image with mesh, messing with light, then adding noise. I like it.