Sculpting (96 Tutorials)
Michele Learns Cinema 4D: Episode 7: Making a Brain
October 6, 2016
Michele shows you how she created a brain in Cinema 4D, starting with a sphere object, then uses the sculpting tools to modify the shape add brain texture.
BodyPaint: UV Mapping and Unwrap for Maxon Cinema 4D
June 28, 2016
Maxon’s BodyPaint is a tool that allows users to create beautiful sculptures for 3D work. It contains several UV Tools that are made for lining up your models and your materials. There are brushes, selection tools, filters, erasers, and projection painting, which allows for perfect fit of UVs.
Creating an Abstract Tentacle Creature with X-Particles and Octane
May 10, 2016
“As I was creating one of my daily renders I came up with a technique to create an abstract tentacle sea creature using X-Particles in Cinema 4D.” – LockedAndLoading
ZBrush Modeling Techniques
May 4, 2015
Ali Noori describes how he used ZBrush to create his alien character: Infested Marine. Read an excerpt here and then follow the links to read the entire tutorial.a
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.
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!
Facial Modeling Timelapse Software: Maya
September 2, 2014
Tips & Tricks related to facial modeling for Animated Productions by Sergi Caballer.
News: See What’s New in MAXON CINEMA 4D R16
August 7, 2014
Cinema 4D Release 16 places a greater emphasis than ever before on visual effects and realism, with key features like Motion Tracking and multi-layered reflections. Here’s a wonderful collection of tutorials for all the great new features.
Creating Custom Bevels in Zaxwerks 3D ProAnimator and 3D Invigorator Pro
June 9, 2014
From the creative minds at Zaxwerks comes a wonderful tutorial showing how easy it is to create your own custom bevels in 3D ProAnimator and 3D Invigorator Pro. This tutorial teaches you how to utilize the Profile Editor to create and edit bevels. You will also learn how to customize 3D Text and vector shapes.
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.
Use CINEMA 4D as Poor Man’s Chrono Sculptor
February 11, 2014
Yader (aka Derya Öztürk) explains how to get a ChronoSculpt like workflow in CINEMA 4D. Very clever! LightWave ChronoSculpt from NewTek is a new standalone product that “revolutionizes working with animation and dynamic simulation cache files from any application by allowing you to use sculpting and transformation tools over time. ChronoSculpt also introduces a radical new geometry engine based on our 'Hydra' technology which allows the deformation and manipulation of 8 to 10 million polygon objects with ease.”
Yader gives a short demo on how you can bring this type of feature into CINEMA 4D using the Rate option on the Matrix Object and the Morph Motion Effect on the Inheritance Object. There's more to it but you'll have to watch the tutorial!
Inspirations / Tutorials: Pixologic ZBrush SIGGRAPH 2013 Videos
October 16, 2013
Pixlologic recently posted their video archives from SIGGRAPH 2013. Learn and be inspired by fantastic talent from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Aaron Sims Company, id Software, Epic Games, Marvel Entertainment, Seth Thompson, Blizzard, Ubisoft Entertainment, Joseph Menna, and Santa Monica Studio.
Model, Light And Animate A Pin Sculpture In Cinema 4D
February 18, 2013
Post by Chris Schmidt at Greyscalegorilla: “In this two part tutorial, we show you how to model, rig, animate, light and render this Pin Sculpture Toy in Cinema 4D. Follow along as Chris shows you how to build the model and set up the Mograph and Shader Effectors to drive the pins using a depth pass. Then, in part 2, I will show you how to animate the pins using a video depth pass. Finally, we will light, texture, and render the sculpture for output to your compositing program.”
ZBrush Digital Sculpting, Military Character Assets with Joseph Drust
December 14, 2012
Pixelogic has a tutorials area called ZClassroom and they have a series of Military Character Assets with Joseph Drust, a video game industry veteran who focuses on modeling and sculpting. Below are is a link to all of their tutorials in the series, with more coming soon.
Cinema 4D R14 Quick Start Tutorial: Light Colors, Camera Morph, And Filters
September 25, 2012
Nick Campbell from GreyscaleGorilla produced several tutorials last week on Getting Started with CINEMA 4D R14 tutorials.
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