3D (978 Tutorials)

MAXON Cinema 4D Reflective Sports Badge

October 7, 2014

Learn how to create a 3D rotating sports badge in Cinema 4D. Topics include:

Working with Illustrator and Cinema 4D
Bevel Deformer
Reflection Tools
Boole Effect

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MAXON Cinema 4D Rock Goo

October 7, 2014

This tutorial utilizes many tools that can be helpful in creating a variety of different structures. Part 1 covers techniques for making a single volume mesh in the shape of a cluster of crystals or minerals. Part 2 explains several different ways to cut the geometry into 2 pieces, and create and rig a mesh that has proper goo behaviors. Covered topic are joint rigging, mesh deformer, smoothing deformer, and pose morph tag. Part 3 explains how to light, texture and animate for the final render.

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Doctor Who Inspired Titles

October 7, 2014

Paul Ezzy explains how to create some Doctor Who inspired titles with Boris Continuum Complete

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Create Water Drops With Splash Ripples MAXON Cinema 4D

September 30, 2014

Learn how to make water drops with splash ripples using C4D. No additional 3rd party plugins required.

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What’s New in AutoDesSys FormZ 8 Pro #gettingstarted

September 30, 2014

This video demonstrates the exciting new features of form•Z 8 Pro!

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How to dent a Garage Door VFX with Mettle FreeForm Pro

September 23, 2014

Mettle offers up this tutorial regarding real-world 3D displacement with Freeform Pro. Mike Sevigny explains how to track the footage with Adobe After Effects and project it back onto a plane. He then shows you how to align the FreeForm Pro layer to that geometry and displace it in 3D space. Using these techinques allows you to “dent” any footage, not just a garage door.

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Alex Dow of Zaxwerks on the RFShow

September 23, 2014

Alex Dow of Zaxwerks, the ProAnimator Guru, lets his talent run rampant on for RFShow.TV! Watch Alex display the power and simplicity of ProAnimator 8!

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13 Cinema 4D Presentations From Siggraph 2014

September 23, 2014

If you weren’t able to make it out to SIGGRAPH 2014 this year well, you missed some good stuff. But never fear, Greyscalegorilla filmed their demonstrations and they are available to watch here!

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3D Rooms with Cineware / AE and Automatic Follow Through

September 16, 2014

It’s days 10 and 11 of 30 Days of After Effects from School of Motion in Sarasota, Florida. Joe explains how to use Cineware to set up a scene in a 3D environment. In the second part, he focuses on animating the dog in the room with an expression.

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Boris Red Advanced Text Fill Options

September 16, 2014

Originally posted by BorisFX, this tutorial for Boris RED is “based on an inquiry regarding gradient on text in the Avid forum. Senior Product Manager, Dirk deJong, shows you how to add gradient with bevel and 3D looks across entire words using a texture track.”

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Top 5 3D Camera Tips for Adobe After Effects

September 16, 2014

Get tips and techiniques from Sean Frangella for “working with 3D cameras in After Effects, including changing focal length, parenting cameras to nulls, cutting between multiple cameras, roving keyframes, and linking depth of field.”

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Autodesk Maya Soccer ball and Basketball Modeling

September 9, 2014

Here’s a few tutorials on creating different sports balls in Maya.

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Topographic Images using Hair in MAXON Cinema 4D

September 9, 2014

Chris Schmidt from Greyscale Gorilla, was inspired by some gorgeous renders by Lee Griggs, and attempted to recreate rolling hills of geometry in C4D. He didn't want to use MoGraph clones as the shear number needed would be overwelming. So he set out to create a more procedural technique and came up with using the Hair Module.

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