Working With Strands-Around-Strands in Bifrost to Create Abstract Art With Arnold
Lee Griggs shows how to create wild procedural art using Strands-Around-Strands in Bifrost instantly.
#maya3d #bifrost #strands #arnoldrender
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Working With the MASH Random Node in Maya
Reimagine Fx covers everything you need to know about working with the MASH Random Node to vary properties.
#maya3d #MASH
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How to Scatter Flowers on a Moving Landscape With Geometry Nodes
Bradley Animation shows how to work with dynamic sampling when scattering flowers across an animating landscape with Blender Geometry Nodes.
#b3d #geometryNodes
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How to Create Random Combinations of Objects by Cloning on a Matrix Object in Cinema 4D
Athanasios “Noseman” Pozantzis shows how to randomize sets of objects by cloning on a matrix rather than a model.
#cinema4d #cloner
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How to Create a Condensation and Water Drop Effect With Substance 3D Painter
Wes McDermott shows a simple way to make condensation effects through noise and displacements in #Substance #3DPainter.
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How to Render Sprites for Game Explosions Using Bifrost in Maya
Jason Brown renders volume explosions from Bifrost as sprites you can use in a game engine like Unreal.
#bifrost #maya3d #unreal
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How to Rig a Hovercraft With Dynamics and Xpresso in C4D
Expresso Mechanic TV shows how to make a working Hovercraft using soft and rigid dynamics in Cinema 4D.
#c4d #xpresso #rig
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How to Layer Displacement Maps for More Detail
Johnny Fehr shows how to layer Displacement Maps, and how to create a single channel-packed file for the process.
#maya3d #arnoldrender #displacementmaps
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How to Create Rain Effects Trickling Down a Window With After Effects
Roman Boichuk shows how to start a rain shader for 3D by using After Effects to create a water-trickling animation from scratch.
#afterEffects #3d
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How to Create Stylised Smoke Trails With Simulation Nodes in Blender
Bradley Animation shows how to work with Simulation Nodes to create stylized smoke trails behind a moving object.
#b3d #geometrynodes
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How to Advect Particles With Volumes in Bifrost
Jason Brown covers how to push particles around by advecting them with Volumes in Bifrost.
#bifrost #maya3d
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How to Create Bead Patterns Procedrually With Bifrost and Arnold
Lee Griggs shows us how to use Bifrost Spheres and Fields to create crazy bead patterns procedurally.
#maya3d #arnoldrender #bifrost
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A Beginner Guide to Working With Simulation Nodes in Blender
BlenderDiplom has a series of tutorials that cover working with the new Simulation nodes in Blender.
#b3d #geometrynodes
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How to Create a Hypercube Tesseract Animation With C4D
Luis Miranda shows how to create a four-dimensional analog of a cube and tesseract as a 3D animation using Cloners, Xpresso and Clusters in Cinema 3D.
#c4d
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How to Work With Raycast in Bifrost to Get the Position of a Locator
Alexandre Alin shows how to use Raycast in Bifrost to get the position of a locator that follows specified geometry using Bifrost in Maya.
#Maya3D #Bifrost #Raycast
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Working With Displacements in Unreal Engine
Reza Sarkamari updates techniques shown for previous versions of Unreal and creates Displacements with the latest Unreal Engine 5.3 working with tessellation and displacements from the material graph.
#Unreal #Displacements #unrealEngine
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Working With the New Normal Editing Tools in C4D 2024
PolygonPen shares some of his favorite modeling features in C4D 2024, like Normal Editing tools, an updated Phong Tag, Pattern Selection, and Vertex Map Manager.
#c4d
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How to Make Roof Tiles Procedurally With Houdini
Check out cgSide as he uses a procedural setup to breeze through creating roof tiles for buildings in Side FX Houdini.
#houdini
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How to Make Fire and Smoke Using Splash for After Effects
Plugin Play show off how to use Splash in After Effects for a one-click approach to creating stylized fire and smoke.
#afterEffects #ae #particles
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How to Make Fireworks in Cinema 4D With Pyro and a Tracer
The Expresso Mechanic shows how to make fireworks using Pyro, Tracers, and a little Xpresso to tie it all together in Cinema 4D.
#xpresso #c4d #pyro
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How to Make a Retroreflector Material With Octane in C4D
SilverwingVFX shows how to make a Retroreflector material in Octane Render for traffic cones, signs, and more.
#octane #c4d
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How to Get Bifrost Volumes Into Game Engines
Jason Brown shows some ways to get Bifrost Volumes to game engines like Unreal Engine using VDB exchange plugins.
#bifrost #maya3d #unreal
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How to Make Flame Thrower or Dragon Fire in Houdini
Voxyde VFX shows how to create dragon fire breath in Side FX Houdini, leveraging the flame field.
#houdini #vfx
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How to Control Materials With Blueprints in Unreal Engine
Cart & Horse shows how to create dynamic materials in a blueprint rig using Unreal Engine and how you can take control and create overrides or modifiers for texture sets.
#c4d #unreal
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How to Make a Spider Web Generator With Cinema 4D Scene Nodes
Dominik Ruckli shows how to build a spider web generator two ways, with a simple setup and a more advanced one, using Scene Nodes in Cinema 4D.
#c4d #scenenodes #procedural
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How to Build a Simple Simulation Solver With Bifrost
The Maya Learning Channel and Jason Brown demonstrate simulation principles by creating a simple solver in Bifrost.
#Maya3D #Bifrost #Simulation #Solver
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An Introduction to Fluid Simulation in Unreal Engine
Reza Sarkamari dives into the magic world of fluid simulations in Unreal Engine with this beginner’s guide.
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Working With the New Rigid Body Dynamics in Cinema 4D 2024
3DBonfire covers some of the new capabilities of Rigid Body Dynamics in Cinema 4D 2024. #c4d
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How to Convert Any Mesh or Sim to Voxels With Bifrost
Procedural Tips shows how to turn any mesh or simulation into blocky-looking voxels using Bifrost. #Maya #Bifrost #Voxelart
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What’s New in Cinema 4D 2024
Check out some new features and improvements in the new Maxon Cinema 4D 2024. Maxon unveiled a new version of Cinema 4D with massive improvements to overall speed, incredible new features, and some enhancements. The
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How to Make a PBR Material With a Single Photo in Substance Sampler
Dimitris Katsafouros demonstrates how to create rich PBR materials from a single photo using Sampler. Creating maps from images was a laborious process at one point. That is no longer true with tools such as
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How to Create Clouds in Bifrost With Volumes and Fields
Maya Learning Channel and Jason Brown dive into creating clouds with volumes in Bifrost. In the continuation of the Bifrost Bootcamp series, hosted by Autodesk Bifrost Compound Developer Jason Brown, Jason shows how to create clouds using
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How to Rig a Car in Maya and Create Automatic Wheel Rotation
Antony Ward starts a new car rigging series and shows how to create automatic wheel rotations. Antony Ward (antCGi) starts a new rigging tutorial series, stepping away from characters and moving towards automobiles and cars. “I thought
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How to Rig a Vehicle in Cinema 4D and Control it with Blueprints in Unreal
Cart and Horse shows how to rig a vehicle in Cinema 4D and have the controls you need in Unreal Engine using Blueprints. This new tutorial series from Cart and Horse’s Dan Maurer shows a method for
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How to Make Non-Linear Blend Shape Interpolations With Bifrost
Alexandre Alin shows how he made a Bifrost setup that did a Non-Linear Blend Shape interpolation for smoother deformations on things like eyes. Alexandre Alin of Renart Studios shows how he made a Maya Bifrost setup to
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How to Create Custom Bokeh Shapes for Octane With Photoshop AI
New Plastic shows how to use Photoshop AI to create custom bokeh shapes quickly for Octane in Cinema 4D. New Plastic shows how fast and easy it is to create custom bokeh shapes in Photoshop using
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How to Create Moss With Bifrost in Maya
cgSide uses MJ Compounds and Noise Fields to create a moss effect in Bifrost quickly. This tutorial from cgSide shows how to use some top-level compounds to help create believable moss with Bifrost in Autodesk
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How to Create Looping Smoke in Houdini for Unreal Engine
Adrien Lambert explores creating a seamless looping smoke simulation in Houdini for Unreal Engine. This new tutorial from ILM Lead Generalist Adrien Lambert shows how to create seamless looping smoke in Houdini that will make its way
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Various Ways to Run Scripts in After Effects and Premiere
NT Productions shows how you can run After Effects and Adobe Premiere scripts. Regarding Adobe scripting, you can run scripts in After Effects and Premiere in a few ways. Here, NT Production’s Nathan Lovel shows various
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How to Create Realistic Skin With Arnold Shaders
Flipped Normals uses simplified techniques to show how to work with skin shaders in Arnold for Maya. This new workflow tutorial from the Flipped Normals team shows a tried and tested workflow for creating realistic skin shaders
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How to Create a Stylized Fire Burst With Multiple Niagara Emitters in Unreal
Reza Sarkamari shows how to create a stylized fire burst with multiple emitters in Unreal’s Niagara. In his Unreal Engine series, Reza Sarkamari takes another look into creating effects using Niagara in Unreal Engine. The latest tutorial
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Check Out This Simple to Use Toon Shader for Redshift
The You and Me Academy posts a neat little NPR shader for Redshift called the YMA Toon Shader. The YMA Toon Shader for Redshift is new from the You and Me Academy. The shader offers
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How to Build a Shortest Path Generator with Cinema 4D Scene Nodes
Dominik Ruckli shows how to create a shortest path routine using Cinema 4D Scene Nodes. Dominik Ruckli has been killing it with Scene Nodes setups for a while. This latest tutorial shows how to make a
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How to Use CHOPs for Animations
Rohan Dalvi shows how to use CHOPs to create animation inside of Houdini. This new tutorial from Rohan Dalvi shows that it’s possible to create an animation entirely with CHOPs in Houdini. CHOPs are helpful
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How to Vary Properties Along Strands in Bifrost
Maya Learning Channel posts a look into using Strands in Bifrost and shows how to vary properties along them. Watch the latest addition to the Bifrost Bootcamp hosted by Autodesk Bifrost Compound Developer Jason Brown, which covers
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How to Make an Octane Car Paint Shader With a Layered Material
SilverwingVFX shows how to “roll your own” car paint shader using the Layered Material in Octane C4D. Car paint shaders are tricky. They combine a few things to make one shader, like metallic flakes, coats,
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How to Move a Walk Cycle Forward Without Sliding Feet
Animator Chiara Porri shows how to prevent sliding feet when moving a walk cycle forward in space. Chiara Porri shows three different methods for pulling a walk cycle character forward. The first in the series
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How to Make a Woven Basket Procedurally With Houdini
cgSide covers a process that makes wicker or woven baskets quickly with Side FX Houdini. This new walkthrough by cgSide shows how to create woven baskets procedurally with Houdini. The tutorial covers using the point normals to
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How to Export Bifrost Instances Into Unreal Engine
The Maya Learning Channel uses USD to show how to get Bifrost Instances into Unreal Engine. Watch the latest addition to the Bifrost Bootcamp hosted by Autodesk Bifrost Compound Developer Jason Brown, which shows how to quickly
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How to Create Geometry-Based Lighting With Solaris in Houdini
Chetal Gazdar shows how to convert geometry into lights with Solaris in Side FX Houdini. This new tutorial from Chetal Gazdar walks through how to convert geometry into light sources in Houdini using Solaris. Chetal shows how to
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