Orestis Konstantinidis Covers Using C4D’s Mograph Tools to Control a Large Amount of Animated Characters. A new and more extended tutorial details some of Orestis’ experimentations with creating a system that can control a considerable
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Hezer Hajrullaaga Shows How You Can Create a System to Live Edit and Preview HDR Maps in C4D Without Any Plugins. Working with HDR Maps in Cinema 4D is a great and fast way to
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MerkVilson Shows How to Create a Real-Time, Interactive Burning Effect in C4D. From the Patreon Channel of the prolific Merk Vilson comes a look into creating a procedural burning effect in Cinema 4D. The result
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Shane Benson Has an Updated Look Into Creating Spiral Threads in C4D With Sub-D Modeling Techniques. Not familiar with Shane Benson‘s C4D Sub-D modeling series? Benson’s tutorial series covered how to create poly-perfect topology for
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MographPlus Shows how to Get Great-Looking Results From Arnold Car Paint Shader. Plenty of third-party renderers will have utilitarian shaders and toolsets, such as a shader for creating auto renders. Arnold is no exception by
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Sam Winter Shows an Easy Way to Create Double Sided Textures in C4D. Texturing 3D objects is one thing, but how about texturing a flat 3D shape that has no depth at all, like a
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The Pixel Lab Works With Two New R20 Features to Distress 3D type in C4D. Looking to get a damaged or weathered look to type in Cinema 4D? Sure there are lots of ways to
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Neil Shows His Unique Approach to Non-Photorealistic Rendering and How he gets Such Painterly 3D Work. Not everything needs to be realistically (or hyper-realistically in some cases) rendered. Physically plausible shaders and rendering and non-photorealistic
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Kangddan Walks Through Creating a Classic IK-FK Switch in Cinema 4D With Some Xpresso. IK-FK switch. A system that is equally important for riggers and animators alike. A switch will allow animators to toggle between
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Darkins Digital Shares a Technique that can Create Raindrop Ripples on a Surface Automatically. Creating a rain effect is relatively straightforward with Cinema 4D. Create a drop that will represent the rain, and then instance
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Jonas Pilz Explains What C4D’s Volumes are and How the Volume Builder Can Make Complex 3D Shapes. One of the new features in Cinema 4D R20 is the ability to model using Volumes. It’s a
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Hezer Hajrullaaga Shows How You Can Transform a Deformed Closed Spline Into a Perfect Circle When Modeling in Cinema 4D. Cinema 4d offers a few ways to turn imperfect shapes into perfect circles. Some of
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Dimitris Katsafouros Explains the Black and White Point Parameters Can Help Fine-Tune Textures in Cinema 4D. When you load an image into Cinema 4D, there are a host of options available for essential attributes. Often,
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Aleksey Voznesenski Shows How to Take Advantage of the Heads-Up Display in Cinema 4D. “Do you use the HUD in Cinema 4D? Well, Maybe you Should!” Aleksey Voznesenski writes. The HUD, or Heads-Up Display can
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Aleksey Voznesenski Discusses Why Working With Black and White is So Important for Material Attributes in C4D. Ace5 Studios’ Cinema 4D Materials series gets a new addition. The latest video shows how to use color
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Darkins Digital Shares a Technique for Creating Pixelized Titles Using C4D’s Volume Effector. If you are just getting started using Cinema 4D, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the range of possibilities when working with
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MographPlus Makes Use of the New Sheen Component in Arnold to Create Amazing Looking Fabric Shaders. Kamel Khezri has an update to the Ultimate Introduction to Arnold for Cinema 4D course that looks at using
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All Falloffs in Cinema 4D R20 is replaced by Fields, and Jonas Pilz Shows What They Are and How They Work. Cinema 4D R20 is out in the wild, and one of the most hotly
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Aleksey Voznesenski Covers a Handy Grass Preset in C4D That You Might Have Missed. Cinema 4D comes with a varied and diverse content browser, along with some presets too. So much so that it is
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Shane Benson, Some Solutions for Creating Hard Surface Forms With Subdivision modeling in C4D. Working out how to model something is slightly more important than the tools used to make it. It’s the key behind
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Aleksey Voznesenski Shows How Quickly You Can Setup a Piston Rig With Telescoping Capabilities in Cinema 4D. Complex rigging systems are made simple through the use of constraints. Mixed linkages of mechanical equipment, for example,
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Joren Kandel Shows Why Sampling is Important and How it Can Save on Render Times. The active word of note in the phrase Adaptive Sampling is “Adaptive.” It allows the render engine to add more
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Dennis Wei Shows How to Create a Great-Looking Medical-Style Microscopic Animation From Start to Finish. Medical animation on a microscopic level can take on a variety of forms. One is more technical and explanatory, while
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Sean Dove Uses Camera Mapping in C4D to Create an Animation That Plays With Camera Perspective. Camera Mapping or Camera Projections can be an easy way to set up a realistic environment. It can take
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Dave Bergin Covers 5 Tips That Will Solve Issues and Have You Working Better in Octane. Most render engines will have some similarities in setting and workflow. Of course, there will be a few, and
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Niels ten Hulsen Shows How he Lights His Scenes and How to Create the Light Rig he Uses for Octane. Lighting is so important with rendering. It can bring out the details in your model,
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CG Shortcuts Has a Look at Creating Animated Cloth Using C4D’s Cloth Tag and Jiggle. Watching cloth animate is always visually interesting. With Cinema 4D cloth effects can be fairly straightforward. Some dynamics systems can
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Orestis Konstantinidis Offers an Introduction to One of C4D R20 Most Anticipated Features, the Volume Builder Generator. The C4D R20 announcement leaves 3D and motion artists alike in anticipation of the September 2018 release. One
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Dave Bergin Shows How to Use SoftBody Dynamics in C4D to Easily Animate a Burger Stack. CG Shortcuts offers a look into using Cinema 4D dynamics to animate a burger stacking. The animation will take
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Lonnie Busch Shows How to Create the Dynamic Action of a Valve Mechanism With an Automated Xpresso Rig in C4D. Lonnie Busch is an Illustrator, artist, and designer from Franklin, North Carolina who has a
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Athanasios Pozantzis Shows How to Sort Clone Indices using Voronoi Fracture or Splines in Cinema 4D. Clone indices can become significant when cloning objects in Cinema 4D. Every Clone has its numeric value that you
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Ace 5 Studios Covers the Fundamentals for Creating Metal and Plastic Materials With Cinema 4D. Aleksey Voznesenski posts the first tutorial that is the beginning of a new series that will cover the fundamentals for
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Shishkov Dima Posts a Quick Tip Showing How to Create and Bake a Seamless Equirectangular Polka Dot Pattern in Cinema 4D. Something as simple as placing dots on a sphere can become near impossible in
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MerkVilson Takes a Detailed Look Into the Redshift Volume Object for Spectacular Smoke and Fire Renders. Tutorial author and tools creator MerkVilson shares some insights into creating amazing looking fire and smoke renders using Cinema
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Aleksey Voznesenski Covers How Important Up Vectors are for Rigging and Animation. If you want an easier time with the animation process, the answer is to create a rig with controls. If you want an
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Ed Brown Shows How to Explode Voronoi Fracture Objects Like a Boss in Cinema 4D. Looking to explode Voronoi fracture Objects? Once you have objects fractured using C4D’s handy Voronoi Fracture toolset, how about animating
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Raphael Rau Helps to Clarify Adaptive Sampling With Octane Render and How to Make it Work for You. Octane is quite popular, especially in the Cinema 4D community for a lot of reasons. Chief among
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Dave Bergin Creates a Paper Airplane Animation Using a Simple Flocking System in Cinema 4D. Cinema 4D really shines with instancing and the ease of use with its particles and dynamics systems. There are a
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Athanasios Pozantzis Dives Into Branching Systems With X-Particles’ Branch Modifier. Known far and wide as “The Noseman,” Pozantzis turns his attention to X-Particles with a new series of tutorials that will look at different features
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Athanasios Pozantzis Shows How to Align Faces to Other Faces in C4D Using Snapping and Extended Axis Handles. No matter where you choose to create your models, eventually you will need a host of tools
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Athanasios Pozantzis Shows How to Handle a UV Unwrap for Curved Parts in Models Using Cinema 4D. UV Unwrapping 3D objects can be straightforward when you think of the process as a projecting to get
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Aleksey Voznesenski Provides an Overview of Best Practices for Rigging Characters in Cinema 4D. Ace5 Studios Aleksey Voznesenski often finds himself fixing rigs while working with Cinema 4D. Some of those rigs come from other
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Kangddan Steps Through Rigging Continuous Track Tank Treads in C4D Using Xpresso. Tank treads. The continuous track on wheels that has almost become the defacto benchmark for assessing rigging tools, especially in 3D apps (and
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Dave Bergin Shows How to Create Growth Effects in Alien Green Slime With X-Particles Mesh Tools in C4D. Growth effects are everywhere. You can find them in both tutorials and animations. It is with good
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