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 [...]
What a great idea for a random web app. This lets you find CreativeCommons images on Flickr based on color Share This:
09.03Free Font Webpages
DaFont is always in there for a good mention. But I recently came across another good site for free fonts, FontSpace. Check it. Oh, and then there’s FontSquirrel… Got any others? Hollah! Share This:
Let’s take a look a the layer shader. It is one of the more powerful shaders in the C4D shader arsenal. It basically works very similarly to the layers palette in Photoshop and the layered timeline in After Effects, so most of this will be familiar to a lot of you. Let’s dive in. Share [...]
09.02Light Lister Plugin
I found this super-useful plugin for 3Dstudio has now been adapted for C4D called Light Lister. The plugin locates all of the random lights in your scene and arranges them into one dialog box so you can change all of the settings for different lights in one place! At first glance is doesn’t sound all [...]
09.02Typedia
Typedia is an encyclopedia of fonts, or in the words of its creator, a mix between IMDb and Wikipedia, but just for type. It’s not that the information is not out there; it is, but where this site, the brainchild of Jason Santa Maria and co., succeeds is in putting that information all under one [...]
09.01The Transfer Tool
Have you ever wanted to place an object EXACTLY where you have another object? With the same Position, Rotation and Scale? Well then the Transfer Tool is exactly what you’re looking for… Let’s begin by selecting the object we want to place. (sphere) Share This: