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80+ Excellent Tutorials

80+ Excellent Tutorials
CINEMA 4D is a 3-D application that is popular amongst matte painters in film production, largely due to the BodyPaint 3D functionality. It is equally popular amongst motion graphics artists, thanks to its excellent integration with compositing application pipelines, and a very artist-friendly, customizable workflow and interface. It has been used for films such as Chronicles of Narnia, Beowulf, Polar Express, Spiderman 3 and Monster House. CINEMA 4D’s intuitive interface and logical workflow make it possible for those new to 3D artistry to dive in and be productive quickly. Feedback is smooth and interactive so you can let your creativity run free. It’s been weeks, since we have been Rounding-Up Excellent Cinema 4D Tutorials and Best Practices which can help you to create amazing 3D graphics. For those, who don’t know what is CINEMA 4D? The next generation, representing two decades of excellence. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. Tutorials About C4D 01. 02.

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Create Abstract Greeble In this tutorial you will learn how to create a complex (around 600,000 polygons) abstract Greeble scene without getting into too much modeling. Loft NURBS, Sweep NURBS, Formula object, Structure tools, and Visible light will be used to create the scene, and Advanced Render will be applied to generate the final image. You will also learn some cool tricks on how to tweak the final rendered image, by modifying the visible light, and adding glare and depth of field in Photoshop. Create a Plane object (Objects > Primitive > Plane) 800 x 800 m and 80 x 80 segments.

Create Explosive Typographic In this tutorial I will walk through the steps I used to create this illustration to bring alive the word “collide.” While you may not find yourself needing to recreate the word “collide,” I hope you will find useful the techniques I will cover: - extruding text in Cinema 4d - using displacement maps in Cinema 4d - using the explosion deformer in Cinema 4d - exporting to photoshop from Cinema 4d - unique color enhancing techniques in Photoshop - various layer modes applied in Photoshop for great light effects (A basic knowledge of Cinema 4d and Photoshop is required) STEP 1: Creating 3d text I created a new document in C4d and added some text with the built in text tool. Mr Coutinho' by Wesclei Barbosa Hi, my name is Wesclei Barbosa, and I'm from brazil, and currently work for Tv Globo, a television channel over here. I want to show you how I created my image "Mr. Coutinho" and to try and show a simple workflow between 3ds max and ZBrush, to get good characters. About the image In this project I wanted to try some techniques that I have seen in some CG forums.

70 Ultimate Cinema 4D Tutorials & Techniques Feb 12 2010 Today we share a very comprehensive round-up of Cinema 4D Tutorials. Cinema 4D is a modeling, animation and rendering application that is noted for its flexible interface and ease of use. It is capable of procedural and polygonal/subd modeling, animating, lighting, texturing and rendering. Movies like Monster House, Spiderman 3, Chronicles of Narnia, Beowulf and Polar Express are all examples of Cinema 4D Graphics being in use. Cinema 4D comes with an intuitive interface and a sound workflow that let the imagination and creativity of an artist flow freely.

Create A Car Tyre You will need the MAKETHICKER plugin, download and drop it into program files/maxon/cinema 4d/plugins, you can find the plugin at the following page... 1. Create a cylinder and rotate it 90 degrees as shown and scale it to look roughly like a tyre, 2. Set the caps to 1 and the HEIGHT SEGMENTS to 4... MAKE EDITABLE and select both sides as shown, using EXTRUDE, SCALE, EXTRUDE INNER and BEVEL make something resembling the shape of the sides of the tyre as above!

Making of Portrait of a Silent Man in Cinema 4D and Zbrush Hi, my name is Patrick Eischen, and I am from Luxembourg. I am going to show you how I created my image “Portrait of a silent man” using Cinema 4D and ZBrush. About the Image There are many rendered portraits in a lot of galleries. I was always impressed by the high quality of the MentalRay FastSkin shader and how easy it was to set it up once you understood the basic concept of how skin works.

CreativeCOW The Hobbit & The Dawn of High Frame Rate Cinema The technology wizards of the film/TV industry have been talking about High Frame Rate cinema for a long time; indeed, Douglas Trumbull's Showscan at 60 fps presaged the current interest over 30 years ago. But it took director Peter Jackson to take the plunge for mainstream cinema, declaring he would shoot The Hobbit in 48 fps to get momentum going. In about a year's time, manufacturers made the gear, theater exhibitors updated their movie theaters, and the studios prepared for one of the most audacious technology debuts that cinema has seen.

Cinema 4D Tutorial 30 - Network Rendering Basics In this video I show you a bit about network rendering and some scenes I’m going to pass through it. This tutorial comes in 2 parts due to the fact that I had to edit it and premiere pro was acting up so I had to render in AE and it crashed half way through and made me take the 2 parts. Tutorial part 1: C4D Tutorial 30 - Network Rendering Basics Part 1 from Sam Welker on Vimeo . Tutorial part 2: C4D Tutorial 30 - Network Rendering Basics Part 2 from Sam Welker on Vimeo .

Maxon Cinema 4D Prime [Training, Tutorials & Support] {related_entries id="vendor"} {/related_entries} Painterly City Tutorial by Greyscalegorilla The talented Chris Schmidt has provided a great tutorial on how to create a fun sketchy, painterly style cityscape using MAXON CINEMA 4D. How to create an embossed business card in MAXON CINEMA 4D Need to make some stunningly beautiful 3D business cards? Hello LUX learn. Cinema4D Dynamics Total running time : 616 minutes Learn Cinema4D Dynamics is a comprehensive introduction to mastering dynamics within Cinema4D. With a proven track record as one of the worlds leading tutors in Cinema4D, Tim Clapham takes you through this incredible feature rich toolset. Explore the techniques and processes of working with Dynamics as you create five unique projects from the ground up.

The Gallery "ArenaIvy" Artist: Lab2 Rating: 9.76 [7 votes] Comments: 1 Chosen as favourite: 9 times Quick Tip: Using VRay in Cinema 4D In this Quick Tip you will learn how to illuminate a simple scene using the Cinema 4D VRay plugin. Both the infinite light , and also how to set up VRay tags and settings, will be discussed in this short introduction to using VRay in Cinema 4D. Final Effect Preview Step 1 Create a Cube object (Objects > Primitive > Cube) with the dimensions "1300 x 450 x 500". Step 2

Spiral Growth in Cinema 4D With The Monkey GreyScalleGorilla has a friend. His name is Mike aka The Monkey and is a Cinema 4D wizzard. In the next videos e talks about some pretty advanced stuff like how to use joints, hierarchies, and Xpresso to build natural structures that are great for spirals, curls and golden section goodness. Enjoy! “It’s 45mins of me geeking out on spiral growth. If that interests you then grab a whiskey and come along for the ride.

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