I really liked the look of the Inception titles as seen in the trailers and once I’d seen the film I decided to dig in and see if I could recreate the type-knocked-out-of-a-labyrinth effect. What started out as a supposedly quick test ended up as a crash course in labyrinth design and logic, as well as good workflow between Illustrator and Cinema 4D.

I want to work on this a little more in the future as I’m sure there are better ways to create the geometry for the labyrinth – I used Illustrator to trace the maze from an image, and then used the paths as splines in Cinema 4D.

Check out Think Labyrinth for loads of info on the history of labyrinths and their designs. I used MazeMaker to generate the maze image that I traced into Illustrator.