X-Particles (52 Tutorials)
In Depth: Fireworks
June 25, 2019
Yes, the U.S. Independence Day is upon us once again! Whatever your country or holiday, here are some methods of creating some beautiful explosions in the sky with After Effects, CINEMA 4D, and other hosts. There are some great plug-ins out there for making fireworks too.
After Effects: Easily Create a Complex Flocking System
October 2, 2018
Joe Clay from Workbench explains an easy way to create a complex flocking system by using expressions in Adobe After Effects. This is a great technique for animating particles, a school of fish, a flock of birds or even a colony of bats!
Medical Animations & Tutorials Roundup for Maya, Cinema 4D, After Effects
March 26, 2018
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.
Cinema 4D: Animate Growing Foliage with X-Particles
March 13, 2018
Want to populate your scenes with animated growing vegetation? This step-by-step tutorial from Rob Redman shows you how, using X-Particles in Cinema 4d.
Procedural Growing Frost Cinema 4D & X-Particles + Creating a Realistic Ice Material in Arnold 5
December 26, 2017
Daniel Danielsson is a Freelance Director / Motion Designer who is based in Hertfordshire, which is north of London, England. I’m not sure how much snow and ice they get there, but Daniel has some fantastic Cinema 4D tutorials on creating frost and ice.
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.
Create Nike Flyweave Using X-Particles in Cinema 4D
February 22, 2017
Right now we have a great 3-day sale happening on X-Particles so we thought it would be a great time to give you a tutorial. This one was new yesterday and comes from Greyscalegorilla.
In Depth: Rain Generators
October 14, 2016
It has been cloudy here all day and is just starting to sprinkle here so I thought it might be a good time to update this article with some new information. Added June 13, 2016: Next Limit Realflow, Insydium X-Particles, a Boris tutorial, and more examples.
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.
Tutorial: Faking Depth of Field in X-Particles for CINEMA 4D
July 26, 2016
Mario from INSYDIUM shows a technique to fake depth of field using xpMaterial, for shorter render times!
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.