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Particle Advection X-Particles With Turbulence FD Fluids

Particle Advection X-Particles With Turbulence FD Fluids

June 16, 2014

Not only did Mike Batchelor teach me how to create a beautiful particle animation with X-Particles for CINEMA 4D by using fluid created with Jawset Turbulence FD to drive their motion, but I learned what the word ‘advection’ means!

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3D CAMERATRACKER Plug-in Tutorial by The Pixel Lab

3D CAMERATRACKER Plug-in Tutorial by The Pixel Lab

June 10, 2014

Joren from The Pixel Lab shows the workflow of working with footage tracked with The Foundry’s CAMERATRACKER in After Effects and then bringing that footage into MAXON CINEMA 4D. 

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Model A Microphone with A Wire Mesh Texture in Cinema 4D

June 3, 2014

In this Greyscalegorilla tutorial by Chris Schmidt, he will show you how to uses dynamics, modeling, and texturing to create a 3D microphone in Maxon Cinema 4D.

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Using the Spline Shader to Create Text as a Material in CINEMA 4D

Using the Spline Shader to Create Text as a Material in CINEMA 4D

May 27, 2014

EJ Hassenfranz explains how to skip Photoshop and use the Spline Shader and text (or any spline shape!) as a 2D resolution independent material. He goes deeper, explaining how to use a bump or displacement channels of a material for embossed or stamped metal looks.

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Use The Matrix Object In Cinema 4D to Sculpt Dynamically with Particles

May 27, 2014

In this tutorial Günter Nikotin shows how you can sculpt particles using the matrix object in Maxon Cinema 4D.

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Create Background Loops in CINEMA 4D

May 23, 2014

Use a simple Clone Set-Up to create background loops.

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Cheating a Flocking Simulation in C4D

Cheating a Flocking Simulation in C4D

May 20, 2014

SioPio walks through using standard C4D tools to easily cheat a flocking simulation that can be used in many situations.

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Creating Turbulent Fluid Effects Using X-Particles for CINEMA 4D 4D

Creating Turbulent Fluid Effects Using X-Particles for CINEMA 4D 4D

May 20, 2014

This tutorial will teach you how to create ink drop like fluid effects using X-Particles for CINEMA 4D 4D.

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Render an Abstract Low Poly Look in C4D – Greyscalegorilla

May 6, 2014

Nick Campbell of Greyscalegorilla creates an artistic low poly look based on color image refractions on transparent objects –  inspired by Justin Maller’s Facets renders.

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adventures in maps tutorial

Adventures in Map Animation with QGIS, After Effects, C4D & Illustrator

April 29, 2014

Victoria Nece explains the open source software GIS, Geographic Information Systems, to make mapping jobs easier.

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First Steps In Krakatoa For CINEMA 4D

First Steps In Krakatoa For CINEMA 4D

April 22, 2014

The team at Thinkbox walks you through how to access Krakatoa in CINEMA 4D for the first time. This tutorial is basic introduction to volumetric particle rendering, demonstrating the creation, lighting and rendering of half a million particles using a simple Sphere primitive and the Krakatoa PRT Volume object. This tutorial covers where the plug-ins are located in CINEMA 4D, how to render a simple spherical point cloud, and how to replace the sphere mesh with a figure. This should kickstart your Krakatoa projects in a hurry!

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Guitar Strings with Rowbyte Plexus

Guitar Strings with Rowbyte Plexus

April 22, 2014

Gardner Raymond of Consequence Video Designs has a new After Effects tutorial, in which he creates animated guitar strings using Rowbyte Plexus with the help of Trapcode Sound Keys.

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ShuffleArray Effector for CINEMA 4D

ShuffleArray Effector for CINEMA 4D

April 22, 2014

Douwe shares his new simple MoGraph Python Effector script, as well as a tutorial on how to use the script.

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How to Fix Mixing Textures in Light Kit Pro

How to Fix Mixing Textures in Light Kit Pro

April 22, 2014

Nick Campbell of Greyscalegorilla answers a customer question about how to fix a missing texture error after upgrading.

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Getting Started With Camera Mapping and Camera Projections in Cinema 4D

Getting Started With Camera Mapping and Camera Projections in Cinema 4D

April 22, 2014

Post at Lesterbanks: “Tyler Jordan offers a look at getting started with camera mapping and camera projection techniques in Cinema 4D. Jordan shows his workflow that involves taking a couple of photographs and setting them up so you can move through them in 3D space in C4D.” – Plus, a resource/ guide for additional cameramapping resources.

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