Maxon Cinema 4D Studio R13
If you want to create advanced 3D graphics but need a helping hand to ensure you create jaw-dropping graphics quickly and easily, then this is the choice for you.
Tutorials
Melting Objects in Cinema 4D
Charles Rowland explains how to melt a soda bottle or other object/ model in Cinema 4D.
Water Freeze Tutorial - Cinema 4D & Realflow
RiTutorialsHD uploaded this great freeze tutorial: In this video theyl teach you how to create the effect where water freezes in Realflow and Cinema 4D.
The Cinema 4D Tutorial For Absolute Beginners
In this tutorial, Chris starts from the VERY beginning and very briefly cover a lot of topics. The goal here is that a brand new user can get their feet wet and create a very basic final render that includes some modeling, texturing, lighting, and animation! Based off of the first session of an old Introduction to C4D course he used to teach.
Water Freeze Tutorial - Cinema 4D & Realflow
RiTutorialsHD uploaded this great tutorial: "In this video i will teach you how to create the effect where water freezes in realflow and cinema 4d."
Introduction to Motion Capture in C4D with the Kinect
Post by Sam Welker on Vimeo "Once you're past all of the (noise) here is a new tutorial covering a really awesome subject. Cinema 4D Motion Capture. In this tutorial I go over the basics of how my scenes worked. I will create another tutorial soon going over the usage of NI-mate (and maybe iPisoft)."
After Effects to Cinema 4d Tutorial by Tim Clapham / Luxx Part 1
Post at Luxx: "From Tim Clapham: In this third tutorial in the series, Tim takes us through the process of transferring your After Effects information over to CINEMA 4D. Using The Foundry Camera Tracker, you will track and solve some footage, resulting in an After Effects camera and reference nulls being created. This camera and null information will be exported from After Effects into CINEMA 4D and used to build some basic proxy geometry for catching shadows and reflecting the environment. This is then output using CINEMA 4D’s multipass rendering and composited back over the original footage in After Effects."
Taking you step by step through the process, the tutorial starts by covering the basic principles of working with multipass rendering and exporting 3D information from your Cinema4D scene over to your After Effects projects.
Uses Trapcode Particular, Video Copilot Optical Flares, and The Foundry CameraTracker for After Effects.
Advanced Lighting Techniques with Chris Morris- Chicago C4D
"We are at Critical Mass again, this time talking with Chris Morris. He gives a talk about advance light in 3D with contrast. Chris explains how sometimes lighting gets left behind in our Three Dimensional world, we spend so much time saying look at my wonderful polygons, that we don't take the time to light our subject properly to put the finishing touch on our projects. This is a must watch."
How To Make A Clover Field With Hair in Cinema 4D
Post at Greyscalegorilla: "Chris Schmidt shows you how to make a clover field from scratch using a really fun little technique with Cinema 4D’s hair tools. Great for just whipping out a whole bunch, or specifically placing each one in the perfect spot. Lot’s of uses!"
Dynamic Paper Simulation - Cinema 4D Tutorial
By Footprint Productions on Vimeo: In this tutorial you will learn how to create a simulation of drifting paper, all within Cinema 4D and with very little overhead on your computer or scene! Here are a few of the things you can expect to learn: -Cloth Engine -Simulation Caching -MoGraph Cloner -Dynamic simulation
Creating the Mission Impossible 4 Titles in Cinema 4D and After Effects
Post by Antonio Cerri at AEtuts+ : "In today’s tutorial we’ll be creating the Mission Impossible 4 title animation. In the first part, we’ll be in Cinema 4d to create and animate the logo, lights and materials. We will then continue to After Effects for the overall composition and all the graphic elements that characterize this particular animation. We’ll also explain how to make the fantastic ghost protocol effect."
Using Trapcode Form 2.0 with Cinema 4D
Post by Nick Campbell/Greyscalegorilla: "a video of Gavin Morrissey’s talk about integrating Cinema 4D and Trapcode Form 2.0" at Chicago C4D.
Connectors/Hinge Tutorial #1
By Chris Schmidt/ Greyscalegorilla. "Start of my Connectors series. This first one focuses completely on the Hinge Connector (And some motors). Walk through creating a dynamic briefcase, a toy snake, and a walking robot. I had some fun and push the walking robot to do battle to the death verses it's twin."
Cinema 4D Inheritance Effector & Particle Morph
Post by NEEKOE on Vimeo. "After seeing David Lewandowski’s NAB presentation for Maxon, I was blown away by all the crazy stuff he uses the Inheritance Effector for and challenged my self to recreate some of his project files."
How to Make Interesting Water Shapes Using Caustics and Displacement
Post at Greyscalegorilla.com. In this tutorial, Chris shows you an old technique he uses to make cool caustics based animations. He also talks about speeding up test renders, displacement, and some special lighting settings. Enjoy!
How to Model a Birthday Cupcake In Cinema 4D
Post by Chris Schmidt at Greyscalegorilla. "Ingredients: Star Spline, Circle Spline, Cog Spline, Loft Nurbs, Displacement Deformer, 5 Lights, About 20 nulls, And a dash of Subsurface Scattering. Render and Enjoy!
Tutorial: How to Build A Brick Road And Other Texture Ramblings
"Chris Schmidt shows us how to make a realistic brick road using Cinema 4D using Mograph tools and noise textures. He also goes over how to texture the bricks using displacement to make them jagged and random looking. Follow Chris down the yellow brown brick road of C4D rendering. Sorry, that was cheesy."
Disintegration and Reintegration in Cinema 4D
Post by Rob Redman. "A favourite topic and one that keeps coming back is how to effectively destroy objects in Cinema 4D. There are a huge variety of methods and tools available for this, some use clothilde, others purpose built plugins but there are a few ways of doing it with just the standard tools.
This is just one way but it works great, is simple to set up and is really versatile. Works with any mesh as well, so if you have complex objects to destroy give this a try."
CINEMA 4D R13 Character Rigging & Animation Tutorial
In this tutorial author Brian Horgan is going to show you How to Rig a Simple cartoon character using cinema 4d r13 new character builder.
“Dominoes” CameraTracker and Cinema 4d Tutorial – Part 1 & 2
Learn about using the Foundry Camera Tracker with Maxon Cinema 4D. Tutorial by AETuts+by Alexander Lehnert.
Water & Liquid Tutorial C4D (No External Software)
Posted by Pixcellworld on Vimeo. Creating water and liquid in Cinema 4D without 3rd party software.
How to Make An Animated Title Sequence in Cinema 4D and After Effects
Posted by GreyscaleGorilla for the Vimeo School Series. "Vimeo asked me to do a tutorial for their excellent Vimeo School series and I said “heck yes!” It’s all about how to make a fun animated title using Cinema 4D and After Effects. In Lesson 1, we build the logo from a vector file and prepare it for render. In part 2, we composite it in After Effects using the built in Tracking Software, lens blur and color correction."
Create And Composite A Mobile Phone App Demo Template
Posted by Carolin Sellman at AEtuts+. "In this tutorial you will learn the workflow on how to set up a scene for an animated pack shot of a phone in CINEMA 4D and composite it in After Effects. We’ll start off by setting up the scene in CINEMA 4D, animating the phone model and go through the necessary render settings for getting our files into After Effects. After that we’ll compose our scene in After Effects using luma and alpha mattes. We’ll also create a background and a reflection on the floor using a few simple steps."
Create an Elegant Concentric Rings Animation
Posted at AEtuts+ by Satya Meka: "Satya shows us how to use iterations of simple shape layers to create some beautiful procedural art. Satya also recreated the effect in Cinema 4D and has create a bonus addendum tutorial which in true Satya style is full of XPresso goodness."
How To Shatter An Object In Cinema 4D Without Any Plugins
Chris Schmidt shows you how to shatter an object procedurally in Cinema 4D without any 3rd party plugins using the shatter object, fracture object and dynamics. Chris shows you how to set this up in 11.5 and 12/13 since the dynamic systems are a little different in each.
How To Use Dynamics, Particle Emitters, and Different Camera Angles in Cinema 4D Part 2
Posted by Nick Campbell/Greyscalegorilla: "In part 2 of this tutorial we head in to After Effects to composite all the separate camera angles we rendered from Cinema 4D. We use pre-comps to set up the scenes and edit them together in another comp. Then, we do a final color correct and add motion blur to finish up the animation."
How To Use Dynamics, Particle Emitters, and Different Camera Angles in Cinema 4D
Posted by Nick Campbell/Greyscalegorilla: "In this tutorial, I show you how to make this fun eyeball animation shown below. First, we will build the dynamics system using Cinema 4D’s dynamics system and particle emitters. Then I show you how to texture the spheres to look like an eyeball using procedural materials."
Intro to Hair in Cinema 4D
Posted by Greyscalegorilla: "In this tutorial, I wanted to get you started with the hair settings in Cinema 4D. I go over how to set basic hair up, change dynamic settings, change the hair render settings and light for hair. I have been spending a lot of time with Hair lately trying to learn more about it, so I hope to have some more Hair tutorials soon. I’m always learning as I go with CInema 4D, so if you have any Hair tricks or tips you would like to share, please put them in the comments. Thanks for watching!"
