Orestis Konstantinidis with a demonstration showing how to set up a material in Cinema 4D based on the intersection of an object instead of using booleans.

Orestis Konstantinidis writes: In this tutorial we will see how to set up a material based intersection of an object, instead of using booleans. It can be animated with smooth results.
Credits go to Lennart aka tcastudios member from CGSociety from whom I learned this method:tcastudios.com/