Expresso Mechanic TV shows how to build a working combination lock in Cinema 4D with some scripting. This new Xpresso tutorial from Expresso Mechanic TV is the first in a two-part series showing how to make a
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SilverwingVFX shows how to use the AgX color workflow in Octane to get that Filmic look. You’ve likely used AgX Tonemapping if you used Blender. Blender’s Filmic look and color workflow does a more natural
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Lee Griggs shows how to create a globe complete with a terminator effect using Arnold shaders in Cinema 4D. The latest release of Arnold Render has a new distance shader that uses sampling to estimate
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Athanasios “Noseman” Pozantzis shows how to make a distance map for Redshift using a vertex map in C4D. Arnold Renderer now has a distance shader that lets you do insane things based on proximity and distance with
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Expresso Mechanic TV offers a dive into the Xpresso Hierarchy Node and the start and iteration paths. This latest Xpresso Nuts and Bolts tutorial by Expresso Mechanic TV is another Xpresso Nuts and Bolts series installment. This
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Mikhail Sedov shows how to make C4D Capsules and combine them with MoGraph for a procedural workflow. Check out this new tutorial from Mikhail Sedov that gets us started working with C4D Capsules in R25. In Cinema
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New Plastic shows how to use an OSL Shader to create a realistic fabric material with Octane in C4D. Sometimes creating a knitted fabric is as simple as starting with the right foundations. For example,
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Expresso Mechanic TV shows how to use Xpresso, Python, and Spline Tags to create a convincing Plasma Arc Generator. This new tutorial by Expresso Mechanic TV shows how to create the classic electricity effect of a Plasma
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Athanasios Pozantzis shows how to create the equivalent of the Bullet Engine’s Follow Position but with C4D’s Cloth Engine. This new quick tip tutorial from Athanasios Pozantzis shows how to create something similar to the Bullet Solver’s
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New Plastic uses Octane Render to create a classic Jersey Knit fabric in C4D. This new tutorial from New Plastic shows how to create a Jersey Knit fabric material using Octane Render in Cinema 4D. “That’s the
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Blauw Films Leonardo Verkoelen shows how to create a realistic night-vision effect using C4D, Corona, and After Effects. This tutorial from CEO and Director at Studio Blauw Films, Leonardo Verkoelen, shows how to create a believable
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3DBonfire shows how to create more realistic product shots using C4D 2023.2’s new cloth engine. Cinema 4D’s new cloth simulation engine makes creating more elaborate setups and simulations much more straightforward, allowing users to use
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Jonas Pilz shows how to transform multiple objects based on another’s axis in Cinema 4D. This new quick tip from Maxon Training Team’s Jonas Pilz (@jonaspilz3d) shows how you can transform many objects based on another object’s
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SilverwingVFX shows how to work with the Octane Universal Camera and covers its bokeh abilities over regular cameras. Few things make an image more compelling than the depth of field and bokeh. SilverwingfVFX (Raphael Rau), in
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New Plastic shows his process for recreating the rock scene from the movie “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” This new tutorial from New Plastic walks through his process for recreating a scene from the film “Everything Everywhere
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SilverwingVFX shows how to work with light IDs in C4D and After Effects letting you tweak lights in post. This new Octane quick tip from SilverwingfVFX (Raphael Rau) shows how to use Light IDs with
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Expresso Mechanic TV uses Python to create an auto-camera switching rig based on the proximity of an object in Cinema 4D. This new tutorial from Expresso Mechanic TV uses the Python Node in Maxon Cinema 4D to
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https://youtu.be/BQlpBdi-lJw Effectatron uses a few tricks to create automatically driven water ripples in Cinema 4D. This new tutorial from Derek Kirk (Effectatron) shows a relatively straightforward way to create water ripples that automatically react to
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Effectatron shows some new features in C4D 2023.2 and the new Symmetry Object for creating kaleidoscope effects. Derek Kirk (Effectatron) shows some of the new settings in symmetry, especially in the latest Maxon Cinema 4D
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New Plastic tries to clear up color management in a way that simplifies the process and terms. Color management across the entire pipeline is intimidating for freelancers and generalists. While there is a ton of
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The Happy Toolbox shows how to use Poly AI to create PBR materials for Cinema 4D or any DCC. This new tutorial from The Happy Toolbox shows how to create PBR materials using an AI
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Jonas Pilz covers how to automatically duplicate nodes with all the incoming connections with a handy key command. This new quick tip tutorial from Jonas Pilz shows a handy way to duplicate nodes in Cinema
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SilverwingVFX shows a few tricks for making a distant light in Octane With Cinema 4D. This new tip from SilverwingfVFX (Raphael Rau) shows how to get a distant light in Octane. There is no distant
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3DBonfire shows how to make and animate an inflated effect using the new cloth engine in Maxon Cinema 4D. In many ways, the new cloth engine in Cinema 4D allows for a more reliable workflow
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The Happy Toolbox shows how you can quickly change many objects, tags, and materials in Cinema 4D. This new tutorial from The Happy Toolbox effectively shows how to “batch” effect objects, tags, materials, and anything else in
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SilverwingVFX shows how to set up a Camera Projection With Octane in Cinema 4D. Since there are a few ways to set up and make a camera projection in Cinema 4D, the question is inevitable,
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Dominik Ruckli offers a small Python script to quickly colorize volumes with Feilds in Maxon Cinema 4D. This quick walkthrough by Dominik Ruckli shows how his Volume Colorizer Python script can help to colorize volumes and fog in Cinema
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Expresso Mechanic TV shows how to create animated text effects in C4D using Xpresso and Thinking Particles. This new tutorial from Expresso Mechanic TV dives into creating animated Type and effects in Cinema 4D using Xpresso and
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3DBonfire shows how to work with C4D’s new Cloth tools to create underwater plants easily. 3DBonfire (Markus Gonser) has a new tutorial that continues the exploration of Cinema 4D’s new cloth dynamics engine and toolset.
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SilverwingVFX covers the last stage of his realistic Diamonds series with a look into lighting, rendering, and compositing. This new tutorial (or long tip) from SilverwingfVFX (Raphael Rau) covers the last few processes for creating
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Lukas Thorup shows a simple way to animate knitted surfaces using the Mograph Tools in C4D. There are plenty of tutorials out there that will take a more hard-lined node-driven procedural approach to create knitting in
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PixelAffair shows how to create a setup that can turn objects into molten metal using the Volume Builder in Cinema 4D. Check out this tutorial from Ghana-based Pixel Affair that shows how to create the effect of
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Dominik Ruckli shows how to make a classic Plexus effect procedurally using Scene Nodes in Cinema 4D. We’ve seen people make a Plexus effect in Cinema 4D, which usually involves using something like X-Particles. However, this
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The Happy Toolbox shares five tips and tools to improve and speed up your UV workflow in Cinema 4D. This new tutorial from The Happy Toolbox explores five tools to speed up your UV mapping workflow in Cinema 4D.
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New Plastic shows how to use C4D’s new cloth tools to create one-click soft-body sculptures that are both random and abstract. Check out this new tutorial from New Plastic that works with Cinema 4D’s new cloth simulation
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Expresso Mechanic TV shows how to produce a working Stepped Motor using Xpresso and User Data in Maxon Cinema 4D. This new tutorial from Expresso Mechanic TV takes on recreating a Stepped Motor rig in Cinema 4D using Xpresso,
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Learn when to use Scatter, Pattern, or Displacements in Cinema 4D when using Corona Renderer. This new tutorial from the Corona team compares and contrasts three features of Chaos Corona under Cinema 4D. When do
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FriedPixels shows how to make and access User Data when working with Redshift in Cinema 4D. With most third-party renderers, User Data allows you to pass and retrieve attributes from geometry, which can be helpful.
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The Happy Toolbox shows off some of the newer UV Mapping features in Cinema 4D to create UVs easily. This new tutorial from The Happy Toolbox covers the foundations for creating UVs in Cinema 4D and some
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Expresso Mechanic TV shows how to build a rig for a bubbling surface using Cinema 4D and Xpresso. This new tutorial from Expresso Mechanic TV shows how to make an animated bubbling surface that uses Cinema 4D
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Mikhail Sedov shows how to create abstract renders using Cinema 4D Scene Nodes and Capsules. Check out this new tutorial from Mikhail Sedov that shows how to create lines from polygons within Cinema 4D’s Scene Nodes and
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Derek Kirk shows how to create control and animate a growth effect across objects using Cinema 4D Fields. Growth is a fun setup to make and animate; it always looks mesmerizing. In Cinema 4D, you
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SilverwingVFX focuses on modeling brilliant cut diamond shapes in Maxon Cinema 4D. A little while ago, a tutorial from SilverwingfVFX (Raphael Rau) showed some methods for best rendering diamonds with Cinema 4D and Octane Render.
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Jonas Pilz shows how to model a grid of holes using the Bevel Tool in Cinema 4D. If you need a way to create an array or a pattern of holes in a surface, and
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