Erindale shows how to create spirograph patterns in Blender using Geometry Nodes. Erindale Woodford, the node-wizard, revisits spirographs in Blender, covering the same principles as a previous tutorial. The workflow is quite different, but the
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Inside the Mind covers working with the Stage Manager LOP within Houdini Solaris. Side FX Houdini has Solaris, a set of look development, scene building, and lighting tools all based around USD (Universal Scene Description). This
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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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cgSide uses VDB and noises in Side FX Houdini to procedurally model a cookie. This new tutorial from cgSide again works with VDB within Side FX Houdini for modeling and more. The new tutorial shows how to
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Blender Bob shows how to automatically color manage files in Blender by using his free Addon. Most 3D DCCs will oversee the incoming texture file’s color space by color managing what needs to be sRGB or RAW,
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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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New Plastic covers an introduction to thinking about Sound Design for 3D Artists and animators. Audio, sound, and sound effects add so much to what we see. Terrible or no sound will leave you with a less
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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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SouthernGFX shows how to create a hand-drawn outlined look using the Comic Matcaps in Nomad Sculpt. Non-photorealistic rendering, or NPR, is a simple way to get a more natural look and works well with sculpting tools.
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Sharan Vaswani shows his Populate Toolset in Side FX Houdini to easily Art Direct Instances in FX work. Check out this walkthrough by Sharan Vaswani, an FX TD at Rythm and Hues. It shows a Populate
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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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Alex Amor shows how to create type animation using the Corner Pin to deform many layers simultaneously. This new quick tip tutorial from The Scene Group and Alex Amor shows how to use the Corner
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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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Reimagine Fx uses the Flight Node in Maya to animate multiple instances quickly. One method for animation is to use MASH in Maya. The Flight Node in MASH is a great way to create flocking
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Inside The Mind shows how to use a tool that allows you to use Stable Diffusion in Side FX Houdini. With all the talk about AI and images, there are some ways to use a
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Sardi Pax shows how to use Blender to realistically animate a tree moving in a breeze using Sapling and Armature. Trees take effort to make, and they also take time to texture, animate, and render.
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Alex Amor shows how to push shapes apart from each other using the Vector Behavior in Cavalry. In The Scene Group’s Cavalry, you can drive a lot of effects by using Behaviors. This quick tip
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PIXXO 3D shows how to paint through stencils in Blender using any image, just as you can with familiar sculpting apps. Pixxo 3D Juandre (Jay) Labuschagne shows how to use any image and Blender’s texture and UV toolset to
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Houdini Zone shows how to build a chain link fence with Houdini working stylized and procedurally. While not a proper chain link fence, the tutorial by Houdini Zone shows how to quickly make a post and
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CGside shows the difference between using opacity maps for vegetation versus geometry regarding render times. Saving resources might not permanently save on render times, and with creating landscape environments, opacity maps, while convenient, might take
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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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SouthernGFX shows how to use the Curve Tool in Nomad to create lengths of chain links. Recently Nomad Sculpt got the ability to work with curves. The Curve tool allows you to repeat shapes along curves like you can
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SYIA Studios shows how to use Maya Fluids to create cannon fire as a large-scale muzzle flash. This new tutorial from SYIA Studios shows how to work with Maya’s nFluids to create large-scale muzzle flashes, like the
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Lee Griggs shows how to use Arnold Operators to change light attributes instantly. Suppose you’re working on a scene with many light sources; you know that it could be problematic to make changes across all
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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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Inside The Mind shows how to make a custom bullet solver and emit rigid body objects in Side FX Houdini. This new tutorial from Inside The Mind (Stormz) shows how to emit rigid body objects
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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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KeenTools shows how to use masks in GeoTracker to handle occlusion when tracking a shot in After Effects. This new tutorial from KeenTools introduces the aspects of masks and masking when working with GeoTracker. The tutorial
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Kammerbild offers six tips for creating better grass billboards for environments and real-time engines. In this new tutorial from Kammerbild, he shares six tips for getting better-looking grass billboards in your work. A popular method for
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SilverwingVFX covers rendering real-looking diamonds by diving into Dispersion in Octane and more. SilverwingfVFX (Raphael Rau) continues his look into creating diamonds through models and surfaces in Cinema 4D. The first part showed how to model
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You And Me Academy show how to gain control over reflections and refractions by using Trace Sets in Redshift. With Redshift, you can have granular control over reflections and refractions using Trace Sets. This new
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Ilir Beqiri shows how to make Spirangles with Blender Geometry Nodes. Ilir Beqiri often tinkers with procedural setups that could expand or fit within larger systems. His latest shows how to create spiraled shapes, or Spirangles as they
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SouthernGFX shows how to work with the Curve Tool in Nomad Sculpt to create Tentacles or Rope. This new tutorial that uses Nomad Sculpt shows how to use the Curve tool in 3D. Glen Southern
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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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Simon Ubsdell works with expressions in Fusion to rig, connect, and animate 3D cube shapes. Black Magic Design Fusion has a unified 3D environment, and along with that and using expressions, TOKYO Creative Director Simon Ubsdell shows
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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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MJ from the Flipped Normals team shows how to make a Ghibli-style character in Blender from start to finish. This new full-length tutorial from Flipped Normal’s Morten Jaeger, now known as MJ, sets out to show how
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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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John Paul Giancarlo shows how to export USDA from Maya using Python to preserve Arnold data. This new tutorial from Autodesk’s Technical Specialist South Europe, John Paul Giancarlo, shows how to export USDA files from Autodesk
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Small Robot Studio shows how to bake texture maps from high-resolution meshes to low ones in Nomad Sculpt. This new tutorial from Small Robot Studio’s Erika Casab shows a high to low-resolution baking workflow without ever leaving
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Evan Atherton shows how to use Point-E text-to-3D to create point clouds from prompts for work in Bifrost. Evan Atherton, a Principal Research Scientist for Autodesk, has a new tutorial that shows how to work
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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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Simon Verstraete shows how Houdini and Substance 3D Designer can work together to make materials into a usable trim sheet. This new tutorial from Simon Houdini (Simon Verstraete) shows how to use Houdini and Substance
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CG Thoughts introduces Blender Geometry Nodes to new users and shows how to make practical assets for everyday work. There are a lot of Geometry Nodes tutorials out there, and many of them don’t immediately
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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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Vdodna’s AnySubs reads industry-standard subtitle files as text layers directly into Adobe After Effects. VDODNA’s Liran Tabib recently released a tool for quickly importing industry-standard subtitle files into After Effects with a single click. AnySubs for
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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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Ilir Beqiri uses Geometry Nodes to make a setup to animate lines in patterns. This new tutorial from Ilir Beqiri covers creating a system that can animate lines in various patterns in Blender using Geometry Nodes. The
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