C4D artist Adam Heslop is a trained Industrial Designer who is largely working in the 3D Visualization field, creating visualizations, content creation and design/development of digital interactive art installations at Jason Bruges Studio.
Adam regularly posts some of his “experiments” and some of them are pretty cool. One in particular is Adam demonstrating a custom Python driven Cinema 4D plugin he created that can act to act as a bi-directional link to real world equipment.
C4D moving head R&D plugin prototype preview. Uses Mograph matrix arrays to link the effects of the fixtures to the motion graphics toolset in cinema.Adam Heslop
This means that he can control things such as stage lighting, which can all derive their movement based on a Cinema 4D scene and animation. Changing the position of the lights in Cinema 4D will change the position of the light in real life. He can also do things like change the focus of the light, intensity, etc.
Adam shows that the plugin can be bidirectional, and can also have Cinema 4D be affected by physical equipment, shown in the example where he can use a small fader board to control attributes in C4D. Check out Adam Heslop’s site for more interesting work – Pretty cool stuff indeed.
This setup really speaks to the kinds of things that are possible with the Cinema 4D SDK.
