Jacob Torres shows how to light, shade, and render a PS5 controller in Cinema 4D. A new tutorial from Sketchy Visuals’ Jacob Torres shows some techniques for getting a realistic-looking PS5 controller in Cinema 4D using Octane
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Unicut Media shows how to use the volume builder tools in C4D to create a realistic-looking ice cream treat. A new tutorial from Michael de Meyer (Unicut Media) offers an introductory look at a method to model,
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Markus Gonser shows how you can create perfectly looping and complex animations in C4D easily. Have you ever wondered how people make those perfectly looping animations? Different software dictates different techniques, but it’s pretty easy if
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Athanasios Pozantzis shows how you can create voxel cubes from volumes in Cinema 4D. Can you create and render voxel grids instead of smooth meshes from the C4D Volume Remesher? The answer is yes, and the tutorial
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Unicut Media shows how to track the footage, then add and render an object into the scene. Many apps can track these days, some better than others. If you need something quick and dirty, something like
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Stuart Wade shows how to get noisy stylized renders without using C4D’s Sketch and Toon. Cinema 4D’s sketch and toon shader is a versatile one, allowing you to create non-realistic renders right in 3D. If
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RocketLasso shows both simple and advanced methods for creating a neat peeling effect in C4D. A new (and in-depth) tutorial from Chris Schmidt (Rocket Lasso) covers making an old motion-graphics standby – a paint or paper
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Athanasios Pozantzis shows how you can simplify splines by removing ones based on an angle. If you create splines generated from particles or tracer objects, you’ll find them to be a little unwieldy. Particles and Tracers produce
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Jonas Pilz shows how you can quickly pack multiple objects UVs into one UV space in C4D. Creating, arranging, organizing, and packing: the inevitable things when working with UVs in any DCC. If you work
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New Plastic shows how to rig a cartoon hand, create joints, paint weights, and animate using the pose morph tag. Over the last little while, New Plastic focused on modeling and rendering cartoon-style models in Cinema 4D. This tutorial
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Arthur Whitehead shows how to get professional-looking studio lighting for a wine bottle in C4D. If you create product renders quite often, there is nothing quite like having HDR Light Studio around. LightMap’s lighting tool
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MoBox Graphics shows how you can model classic Belgium Waffles using a cube and deformers. A new tutorial from Mobox Graphics’ Eli Prenten shows how to create waffles in Cinema 4D using a procedural approach. The tutorial
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Julian Field shows how to use Xpresso to create an automated race animation in C4D that just plays out. Expressions are a great way to automate a few things in a workflow. Unless, of course,
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Jonas Pilz shows how you can use standard effectors to deform geometry in C4D. An effector is an excellent way to parameterize things in a mograph setup. But Effectors can be used as deformers too. A new
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Alpha Pixel shows how you can make it rain dollar bills, confetti, or streamers, in Cinema 4D. A new tutorial from Alpha Pixel’s AJ Haines shows how you can make objects rain down in Cinema 4D. Learn
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Digital Meat shows how you can use metal and rough textures for ultimate flexibility. There are a couple of PBR workflows for creating shaders and maps. You are either in the metalness camp or the specular/roughness one.
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Jonas Pilz shows how to customize the HUD in C4D by adding parameters. Maxon’s Jonas Pilz (@jonaspilz3d) shows how you can add any object’s parameters to a floating viewport overlay or the HUD in Cinema 4D.
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You And Me Academy shows how to blend between multiple cameras with Camera Morph smoothly. Camera moves are always a bit of science, a bit of precedent, and luck. The issues involved with getting great
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Arthur Whitehead shows how to add that extra something to your product renders. A new tutorial from Arthur Whitehead looks at all the little things that make a work pop out, especially when it comes to product
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Julian Field shows how to use Xpresso and the Target Tag to make a Piston setup. There is certainly more than one way to set up complex object interactions for mechanical rigs. In his latest
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MographPlus shows how Nested Dielectrics works in Arnold for C4D. Back in the day (which wasn’t all that long ago), you had to essentially “fake” complex object-refraction interactions by way of a little math and
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Learn how to reproduce the light of the sun under the sea in C4D using U-Render. A new tutorial from the U-Render team shows how you can mimic the classic crepuscular god rays in an
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Jacob Torres shows how you can create more flexible animations by using effectors in C4D. Animating is much more than laying down keyframes. Many things can help you with the process, like dope sheets, graph
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Dimitris Katsafouros shows a workflow for creating models on a tablet using Shapr3D and C4D on the desktop. As tablets get more powerful, and more useful applications end up on them for artists. Some great
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Tim van Helsdingen shows how to create an amazingly realistic animation of a Jeep driving through the mud. A new multi-part tutorial series from Tim van Helsdingen takes us through how he made an incredibly
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New Plastic shows how you can use a box-modeling method for making a cartoon hand in C4D. A new tutorial from New Plastic shows how to model a cute and chubby cartoon hand in Cinema
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Equiloud shows how you can use a light source as a projector in C4D. Lights in 3D can have properties that lights in real life miss. An example is that a negative value for a light typically
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Nidia Dias shows how Redshift and X-Particles work together to create abstract forms. You can’t tell by just looking at it, but Nidia Dias’ echoic X project used some fascinating techniques with X-Particles and Redshift. Check out
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New Plastic goes over how to create skin materials for cartoon characters using Octane. A little while ago, new plastic had a look at how to create realistic skin with C4D and Octane in an “ultimate guide”
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MographPlus shows how to use Arnold’sArnold’s Light Mixer to change the lighting without re-rendering. A new rendering tutorial from MorgraphPlus shows how a new feature in Arnold 6.2 can help save you some production time. Light
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Ilir Beqiri shows how to create an organic look to morphing splines using Mospline and Xpresso in C4D. A new Cinema 4D tutorial from Ilir Beqir harkens back to what he enjoys most: animating lines
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Julian Field shows how to create a perpetual conveyor effector using Python. A new tutorial from the Xpresso Mechanic Julian Field runs through how you can create a perpetual conveyor effector for Maxon Cinema 4D using
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New Plastic shares a quick tip to get super-real and physically accurate metal in Octane C4D. New Plastic returns with another rendering tutorial, this time showing how you can get the most realistic and procedural, and metallic surfaces
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New Plastic covers his techniques for getting better renders through render passes. It’s sporadic in production to get what you need from a single render. Usually, what happens is a lot of touching out and
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Julian Field walks through creating another effector with Python for Cinema 4D. The Xpresso Mechanic, Julian Field, adds to his series to make custom C4D Effectors using Python. His new tutorial shows how you can
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Arthur Whitehead covers some common mistakes when rendering glass and how to correct them. The subtleties in rendering things like glass and plastic are delicate. Working “the right way” is all the difference between what
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Darkins Digital shows how to simulate a waving flag using the cloth tag in C4D. Soft body and cloth dynamics are super easy and fun to play. This new tutorial from Darkins Digital shows how
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Julian Field shows how to work with the formula node in C4D Xpresso. A while back, Julian Field, AKA Expresso Mechanic, showed how to create an oscilloscope and the animation driven by Xpresso in Cinema 4D.
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PolygonPen shows how you can combine cylindrical objects when modeling in C4D. Hard surface models that seamlessly have one cylindrical shape merge into another, complete with a nice bevel, isn’t that complicated to pull off.
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Ilir Beqiri shows how you can animate many objects in sequence using Xpresso in C4D. Something that should be familiar to any animator or motion designer is having things happen in sequence or offsetting motion.
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New Plastic shows how to make incredibly realistic skin with C4D and Octane Render. A new tutorial from the New Plastic channel shows how you can build hyper-realistic skin in Cinema 4D using Octane. The tutorial covers
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PolygonPen shows an easy way to create braided cables using splines in C4D. A new tutorial from PolygonPen shows us an easy way to model hard-surface cables in Cinema 4D, modeling them “fat” and then using splines
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Arttu Rautio shares a way to get custom render tokens in Cinema 4D using Python. Render tokens are a way you can automate file naming and other tasks while rendering. In Cinema 4D, R17 introduced
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New Plastic shows how to make a material grow in C4D using Octane Render. A new tutorial from New Plastic shows how you can create some nice-looking growth effects, not with geometry but with octane materials. The
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