Here we’ll talk about how to use the Spline Wrap Deformer to create a bending arrow following a path. Great tool for creating maps, streamers, ribbons and complex objects on a path.
You want to do use particles to morph one word into another? You don’t want to mess with all of the Xpresso scripting to do it with Thinking Particles? Here comes the MoGraph module to the rescue! Using an Inheritance effector and a Randomize effector you can get this effect done quickly and easily. Read more…
In the first part of this tutorial, we built a lighting grid using a couple of MoGraph Cloners and a Volume Effector. At the end of part 01 we ended up with a lighting grid made up of plain spheres (see below). In part two, we’ll model a basic light bulb and go through the process of placing that object into our cloners without “breaking” our setup (see above). Read more…
Does your client want “that light grid look from all of the music videos a little while back”? FINE…but you need to scroll a bunch of text through it…which means you need to be able to switch in new text on the fly. PROBLEM…until now. You would have to fake the lights using some sort of animated texture map. That’s not a bad solution until you need to get CLOSE to the lights and then they’ll end up looking like crap. Using the Volume Effector from C4D’s MoGraph module you can model dynamically, leaving your text in a procedural generator (Text Object), ready for changes.
In the first part of this tutorial we’ll go through the theory and setup the basic MoGraph model and get it running. In part two, we’ll work on actually modeling the lights and the rig to get a good-looking final model.
SqueezeMe.tv
Freshly Squeezed Motion Graphic News, Tutorials, and other information from across the interweb.
A great page that puts all of the ‘big boy’ motion graphics pages all on one page. Looks like a new homepage to me. Check it.
Amazing geek factor! Typography and Science! How can you beat that?
Great poster for sale or download.
You have your product or title object beautifully modeled and textured…but what about lighting? Well, one short answer is to look into Global Illumination. Another option fake GI with a complex lighting scheme. There are many options out there, here is one. We’re going to use MoGraph to make the setup a little easier and more flexible.
So, you wanna get better at Cinema4D? Try these resources I’ve collected over the last 5 years. (In alphabetical order…)
3DAttack! Magazine
Decent discussion boards. Their largest resource is 3 years of pdf magazines back with tutorials and articles. A lot of the information in the older editions of the magazine are outdated from a software point of view, but the techniques discussed are timeless.
Base80
You’ll find tutorials, textures and of course a lot of Xpresso. A treasure trove of german knowhow – written in english. Read more…
Chrome text, chrome logos, chrome, chrome, chrome… everybody wants some bling bling. What makes metallic textures look so good? Reflections. Reflections are easy if you have some text floating in a complete modelled environment. What if you want some chrome text as an element to bring back into AE for a composite? Here’s a beginner/intermediate tutorial to show you how you to make it quickly…
What a great idea for a random web app. This lets you find CreativeCommons images on Flickr based on color
