Jonas Pilz shows how you can filter parameters in the attribute manager. Cinema 4D has a lot of “quality of life” improvements overtop some excellent new features. What’s the quality of life mean? Things like being
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Sean Dove shows how you can use splines to create impact smoke hits. Are you looking for a way to create some fun visual impact? Why not use an actual impact. A new tutorial from Sean
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Ignas Blazys shows how you can sync Keyframe Pro and C4D for annotations and playback. An excellent playback and review tool is a great idea, now that a lot are working from home. While there
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MographPlus shares a look into the Arnold Toon Shader within Cinema 4D. While Cinema 4D has its toon shading scheme, most renderers will offer one too. With Arnold, the toon shader represents something fast, easy
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0626 shows how a Displacer, Fields, Splines, and more can build and animate pipes procedurally in Cinema 4D. Growth animation always captures our imaginations. In 3D, there are many ways that you can approach growth,
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MographPlus shows some techniques to create realistic skin in Arnold C4D and covers SSS. A new rendering tutorial from Morgraph+ shows an approach to create realistic skin shaders with Arnold in Maxon Cinema 4D, using
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Digital Meat shows how you can edit your pivot to anywhere in the C4D viewport quickly. A new quick tip tutorial from Digital Meat’s Samuel Winter shows how you can quickly move around the pivot in Cinema
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TFMStyle shows how to get great-looking dispersion effects in crystals using Redshift. TFMStyle (the French Monkey) offers insights into creating that coveted dispersion effect using Cinema 4D and Redshift. The tutorial covers creating realistic crystals
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Reas ALKHATEEB breaks down how he created animated grass for his latest project. Cinema 4D and all its available render engines offer a dizzying host of ways to create things like animated grass. A new walkthrough
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Stormz shows how you can get a boolean fracture effect in C4D. Cinema 4D has some great and native fracturing tools that are fast and easy to use. However, if you want better control over some of
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Markus Gonser shows how you can use Cloth and Fields to inflate and deflate parts of one object in Cinema 4D. A new tutorial from Markus Gonser (3DBONFIRE) shows how to create an intricate-looking effect that uses
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Jonas Pilz shows an effortless way to align your scene from the C4D motion Tracker. Likely everyone’s first attempt at motion tracking (especially 3D tracking) works for the most part other than that the scene
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Jacob Torres covers how you can grade renders in Octane and Ae. Color is such a huge part of working, and in CG, it’s a whole thing. Color workflows are as crucial as they are
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Jonas Pilz shows how you can create custom viewport filter configurations. It’s not uncommon to get rid of things that are deemed visual noise in the viewport. Turning on and off elements in the view
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Magnol Pierre Francois shows how you can make a rocky canyon scene procedurally in Cinema 4D. Working parametrically (or procedurally) has its benefits in some instances. A new tutorial from BrightPhoton (Magnol Pierre Francois) shows
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Glen Johnson shows his technique for creating dirt effects using AO, Noises, and Layer Shaders. Creating wear and tear adds some life and realism to 3D work. While some applications such as Substance Painter practically
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Stormz shows how you can blend between materials using vertex maps and Redshift. The last tutorial from Stormz shows how you can dynamically place materials on objects that will change based on the object’s orientation in world-space.
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Julian Field continues his Python work in C4D, showing how you can create a Find the Reject Effector. Over the last little while, the Expresso Mechanic, Julian Field, is covering creating custom effectors for Cinema 4D
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Jonas Pilz shows the workflow for creating morph targets from sculpt layer poses. Like most workflows in C4D, the sculpting toolset is one that has a lot of uses. When creating character expressions and poses,
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David Cantera shows a simple way that you can create a splat effect and transition in Cinema 4D. David Cantera adds another quick tutorial to his series that aims to simplify complicated setups in Cinema
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Stormz shows how to create materials that change based on object-orientation. You may have seen demonstrations that show how game engines can create materials that can change based on the orientation of the object on
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Michael de Meyer shows the practicalities for creating proper displacements in Cycles4D. Render engines have some slight differences in workflows. Take displacements, for example. Creating displacements with Octane and Redshift in Cinema 4D is pretty
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Rhett Dashwood shows how to create a laser scanline effect using projections in Octane. A new quick tip tutorial from Rhett Dashwood shows how to harness light projections in Cinema 4D and Octane to create
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CG Shortcuts shows how you can use Mograph and Effectors to create a voxel effect. A new tutorial from Dave Bergin shows the process for creating an animated voxel effect that you can loop infinitely. While there
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Daniel Danielsson shows how you can create the “Interstellar” black hole effect pretty easily in C4D. A new tutorial from Daniel Danielsson works through creating a black hole effect with Arnold in Cinema 4D. The
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Julian Field looks at using the Mid String Node, part of the Xpresso system presets in C4D. The Xpresso Mechanic, Julian Field, covers working with some of the Xpresso systems presets in Cinema 4D. The latest has
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The You and Me Academy dives into stacking or layering materials in Redshift using the Material Blender. Most node-based material systems still allow you to use layers. Most systems will have a node that will
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Laura Porat shows how to tweak C4D hair to create curly hairstyles for characters. Characters come with all kinds of challenges: modeling, rigging, and creating clothes and hairstyles. It is the latter that is the
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Tyler Jordan shows two quick tricks for showing and hiding layers in Cinema 4D. It’s always important to keep your scene organized. One of the ways of keeping things clean is the ability to control
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Stormz shows how you can get better-looking terrains into C4D by using Houdini. At first Stormz new tutorial title seemed like a bit of bait. How do you get better terrains in C4D? Why, use Houdini,
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Learn how to make a realtime wax material using U-Render’s new SSS features. Uppercut posts a look at working with the new subsurface scattering settings in their realtime viewport renderer for Cinema 4D. With the
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David Cantera shows two easy ways to animate dynamic wavy hair in Cinema 4D without using Wind. Setting up a dynamic simulation is a balance between something that looks natural and something you can control. That
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Julian Field shows all the details of working with the Soft Target Node in Cinema 4D. “Look at” or setting a target has a few different solutions in 3D. In Cinema 4D, there is the
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Jonas Pilz shows off some of the new loop selection features in C4D S22. The faster that you can make selections in a DCC ultimately means that you can work faster too. That is where
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Lonnie Busch works with Cinema 4D particles to create a jelly-like motion using the Matrix Object. It’s easy to forget the power of Cinema 4D native workflows, especially when talking about particles. But yes, Cinema
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Jesper Sandell shows how you can use X-Particles to create sand and use a displacement effect to reveal a logo. A new tutorial from Velocity Peak’s Jesper Sandell shows how to create a sandy look
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Nikolaus Schatz creates a transition effect in Cinema 4D using Fields. There must be a ton of ways to create a transition effect. In Cinema 4D you could use particles or Effectors and with more recent versions of C4D, Fields are
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Jonas Pilz shows how you can quickly toggle viewport filters, selecting what shows in the render. Viewports are turning into a jack of all trades. Realistic previews are great for modeling, but also real-time rendering too.
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UPPERCUT runs through some of the settings for subsurface scattering in U-Render C4D. U-Render is a new viewport real-time renderer for Cinema 4D from the team at UPPERCUT. U-Render offers high-quality real-time Rendering for Design, Animation, and
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Five31 shows an easy, quick fix for those pesky material previews in Redshift C4D. If you are new to Redshift in C4D and are getting black material previews, there is a super-easy way to fix it. A
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CG Shortcuts creates dynamic noodles effect using soft bodies in Cinema 4D for animation. One of the advantages of working with Maxon Cinema 4D is that you can easily mix and match entities. With Dave
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Jonas Pilz shows how you can quickly copy viewport settings to render settings with a click. The new subscription model for its flagship 3D powerhouse, Cinema 4D, comes with some exciting new features that can
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Nikolaus Schatz shows how you can replace a fluid simulation and use the volume tools in Cinema 4D to coat objects. We’ve seen tutorials that show how you can create fluid-like simulations without having fluid
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Julian Field shows how you can make a ‘cup and ball’ effector in C4D using Python. Over the last little while, the Expresso Mechanic, Julian Field, is covering creating custom effectors for Cinema 4D using Python.
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