Particles (215 Tutorials)

Midweek Motivation: cebas thinkingParticles – Joe Scarr Q & A
April 26, 2017
Joe Scarr (formerly ScanlineVFX, Vancouver), gives many great tips, pointers, techniques and insights into the visual effects he has helped to create for major films like ‘Guardians of the Galaxy 2’, TV shows such as ‘Shannara Chronicles’ and video games like ‘The Witcher 2’, using thinkingParticles, in this 6 part series. Plus part 6 is actually a great thinkingParticle tutorial from Joe.

cebas thinkingParticles – Viscoelastic Fluids: Honey tutorial
April 25, 2017
The visco elasticity solver in thinkingParticles for 3ds Max allows for the creation of viscous liquids like honey or oil, or any kind of thick fluids. Learn how to use the solver to create flowing honey in this tutorial.

cebas thinkingParticles – ImplicitShape Shader Tutorial
April 25, 2017
Learn how to work with the ImplicitShape and shaders within thinkingParticles using data channels in this tutorial by Joe Gunn.

Vectorize Voronoi Texture Tutorial
March 27, 2017
Ryan Somerville explains how to create a Voronoi texture in Cinema 4D with the Vectorizer object in Cinema 4D to rasterize the image into a spline objects (like creating outlines in Illustrator). Featured in C4D Spotlight: Voronoi Diagrams in Cinema 4D.

VoronoiGenerator for Cinema 4D
March 27, 2017
Developed by Dominik Ruckli, the VoronoiGenerator is a Cinema 4D python plugin that generates a 2D Voronoi Diagram.

Cinema 4D: Plexus Particle Trail Animation Tutorial
January 3, 2017
Dennis Wei shows you how to make a very cool particle trail using Plexus, C4D, After Effects and a few other things, like Trapcode Particular and Optical Flares.

Red Giant | DOCTOR STRANGE Portal Effect with Trapcode Particular
December 20, 2016
Daniel Hashimoto (also know as Action Movie Dad) shows you how to create the DOCTOR STRANGE portal effect with Trapcode Particular.

Doctor Strange VFX Breakdown and Loads of Tutorials
November 30, 2016
Doctor Strange is a visually awe-inspiring sci-fi film/fantasy film. We’ll take a look at some behind the scenes videos and several tutorials.

After Effects: Create a Space Scene in Trapcode Particular
November 29, 2016
Learn how to make a cool nebula-esque space scene in After Effects using Trapcode Particular.

C4D: Using Dynamic IK for Animating a Group of Tentacles
October 18, 2016
Pryce Duncalf has a silent tip video showing how to use Dynamic IK to move a group of tentacles in Cinema 4d.

Create Ghostbusters Style Visual Effects
October 11, 2016
Director Seth Worley takes you behind the scenes and shows you how he created the visual effects in “Busted,” his Red Giant Film Team Experiment. Watch “Busted” here and follow the link to the tutorial.

CINEMA 4D R18 Compatibility Information – 3rd Party Products
October 5, 2016
Wondering if your plug-ins, renderer, or other add-ons are compatible with R18? We will keep this page updated with new information as we receive it.

Coremelt One Minute Tutorial – Track a Callout Label to an Object
August 23, 2016
Learn how to use Coremelt DriveX in FCPX to easily track 3D text, labels or even particles to the movement of your footage, in this quick one minute tutorial.

Working With Octane’s Random Color Shader and X-Particles
August 3, 2016
Learn how to use the random color shader in Octane so that it works with X-Particles, giving you a unique color for each particle in a group.

X-Particles Explosions in Cinema 4D
July 20, 2016
Noah Witchell has a tutorial on making a fiery explosion using the FLIP Solver, which is built into X-Particles.