Particles (171 Tutorials)
Brain Cells
June 13, 2017
Motionsquared has a breat tutorial on creating brain cells in Cinema 4D. I used this tutorial in a project last year. Super useful tutorial. Scroll to the end of the page for the tutorials.
Cell Dividing: Adobe After Effects Tutorial
June 13, 2017
Caleb Ward explains how to visualize cell division in After Effects.
Medical Animation Tutorial – Creating a simple cell model in Maya
June 13, 2017
Annie Campbell (a relative of Nicks?) explains how to create red blood cells with Maya and After Effects. Scroll down the page to tutorials to find it.
Sub Surface Scattering, Blurry Reflections, X-Particles, Physical Render and Blurry Transparency
June 13, 2017
Nick Campbell explains how to create some cells with Cinema 4D and X-Particles. Scroll down the page to tutorials section.
Burning Question: Medical Animations
June 13, 2017
The human body is still such an enigma and there are so many technical, yet beautiful, 2D and 3D animations that help to visualize those microscopic mysteries. We had a question about some methods of creating cells and other microscopic elements. First, we have some gorgeous examples to inspire you, followed by a few tutorials for various host applications.
Superluminal Stardust Replica Motion Graphics Elements
June 13, 2017
This is a walk through of how to add some fun and engaging elements to your After Effects comps with Superluminal Stardust by replicating particles.
Create a Magical Particle Trail with Stardust
June 6, 2017
Make a Magical Particle Trail with Visionary Universe’s Lendon Bracewell walks you through making an enchanted magic particle trail with Stardust.
Cinema 4D: Create Simple Flocking Sims with C4D Flock Modifier
May 16, 2017
Sam Winter from Digital Meat explains how to use the Flock Modifier plug-in to make particles simulate the flocking of birds or a school of fish.
cebas thinkingParticles – Simulate Gelatin Cubes
May 2, 2017
Learn how to simulate super elastic gelatine cubes using Viscoelastic Fluids in thinkingParticles, with this tutorial from cebas Visual Technology.
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.
C4D Spotlight: Learning Python to Expand Cinema 4D
April 14, 2017
Okay, I know what you’re thinking. Learning Python will be difficult and I don’t have time. Well, learning just a bit, enough to be dangerous, can expand what you do in Cinema 4D and automate repetitive tasks to speed up your workflow. I promise that I will not get technical in this post. This is an overview of what Python is, why you might want to learn Python, and where you can learn Python for free. And, of course, a bunch of tutorials and free Python scripts!
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 Python plug-in for Cinema 4D that generates a 2D Voronoi Diagram or a Delaunay Triangulation.