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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 A lot of the information in the older editions of the magazine are outdated from a [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
09.01The 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)
A simple scene of a country house windowsill I’ve been working on. It started as mainly an exercise in modeling and texturing. I’ve added some TP rain to it. I put together an Xpresso script that creates drops of rain that splash and split into smaller drops if they collide with any objects inserted into [...]