3D (847 Tutorials)

Cinema 4D Custom Material ID Pass Tutorial
January 29, 2015
Ryan Snider of TangleWire.tv, shows you his customized compositing render pass that will allow you to make targeted color corrections, and changes to your C4D renders in Adobe After Effects.

Wireframe Renders in Cinema 4D
January 29, 2015
In this tutorial from the Pixl Blog, you will learn how to make wireframes of your objects using the Proximal Shader.

Classic Car 3D Text
January 29, 2015
Andrew Kramer shows you how to make some really cool 3D texts and emblems similar to those found on classic cars. And do it all in Element 3D V2.
Tips in this Tutorial:
- Extruding Text & Adjusting Bevels
- Outline Bevel mode for creating Emblems
- Dynamic Reflection Modes
- Create fake car paint flake material.
- Tips for adjust render quality

Multipass Rendering in VrayForC4d
January 29, 2015
This tutorial from Mograph+ talks about multipass rendering in VrayForC4d using its powerful multipass manager.

Create a Paper Airplane in After Effects.
January 13, 2015
Create and animate your own Paper Airplanes in After Effects. This tutorial will show you how with out any 3rd party plugins, plus it only uses the classic 3D engine and not the ray traced.

Creative Type with Cinema 4D Hair, MoGraph & X-Particles
December 14, 2014
Follow along in this great tutorial from helloluxx and you will learn how to make all sorts of beautiful new type in Cinema 4D!

After Effects (Trapcode Form) 3D Hologram Effect
December 9, 2014
In this tutorial TunnelvizionTV will teach you how to create a 3D Hologram Effect using After Effects and Trapcode Form. Trapcode form can be used to import 3D objects such as OBJ files into After Effects.

Burning Question: Where can I get Spherical Map HDRI Files?
December 4, 2014
Spherical Map HDRI (High-Dynamic Range Imaging) is something that seems to be known by many names: Spherical Environment Maps, Spherical Reflection Maps…

Boris Continuum Spinning 3D Snowflake #TBT
November 28, 2014
Class up your holiday graphics with a gorgeous 3D Spinning snowflake with glints of light reflecting off of it. Here’s a fairly popular tutorial from about 5 years ago that is just as relevant today. Although all the software used has been updated, the formula is the same.

Essential Animation Quick Tips for MAXON Cinema 4D
November 25, 2014
Learn some quick tips to help you become a better animator in this tutorial from eyedesyn.

Toggle Sub-Division Surface in CINEMA 4D
November 25, 2014
Happy Tutorial Tuesday once again. I’m Called Andy has a tutorial explaining how to toggle the Sub-Division Surface generator (hypernurbs) in CINEMA 4D. Note: This toggle technique will work between any parent generator.

CinemaPlugins DEM Earth Overview Tutorial #gettingstarted
November 20, 2014
DEM Earth allows users to easily generate dynamic Digital Elevation Models and geo-reference them in real-time to your world imagery. CinemaPlugins has released a new point update to this week that adds improves and adds new features and fixes a few issues. All owners of v2 are advised to update.
Maxwell Render Introduction for MAXON CINEMA 4D
November 18, 2014
Hello on this fine Tutorial Tuesday! There is several hours of training on this page! Learn about how Maxwell Render engine works inside of CINEMA 4D in this really thorough tutorial from Curse Studio. Download the source files too. Then, check out several Maxwell Render for CINEMA 4D tutorials, produced by Maxwell Render. Also, there’s a sale on Maxwell Render products that you don’t want to miss. It runs from November 3 to December 19, 2014.
Pixologic ZBrush – using the ZTree plug-in
November 17, 2014
ZTree is a plug-in for ZBrush that provides some extra tools that can be useful when working with ZBrush. It does the tedious, repetitive steps for you.This next tutorial goes into much more depth including hotkeys, polygroups, sculpting, adaptive skin and more. Both of these tutorials were created by Dargelos Nezumi, the creator of the ZTree plug-in. Check out his YouTube page for more great ZTree tutorials.
Workflow between LightWave and After Effects #lightwave3d
November 17, 2014
If you work with both Adobe After Effects and Newtek LightWave, here are a few tutorials that may help with your workflow between the two programs.