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How to Create Looping Spline Animation in 5 Steps

The Rusted Pixel shows how you can use pose morph to create looping spline animations in C4D. Looping animations are a little more than the first frame matching the last frame. Have a look at

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Make X-Particles More Organic With Strange Attractors

You and Me Acadamy shows how to work with Strange Attractors for more natural movements.  An attractor is any force that allows a dynamic system to evolve. More chaotic ones are known as “strange”....

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How to Quickly Create a Realistic Moon With C4D and Octane

Rhett Dashwood shares some tips for making and rendering a realistic moon with Octane. It’s all about the textures. In a new Cinema 4D and Octane Renderer tutorial, Rhett Dashwood shows just how easy it

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How to Recreate the VR Aesthetic in Cinema 4D

Vincent Schwenk shows how you can use volumes to mimic that VR aesthetic in C4D. If you’ve seen or played around with the Occulus Medium, you know it has a very distinctive look to the

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Everything You Need to Know to Get Started With Scene Nodes

Jonas Pilz covers the concepts behind scene nodes and shows how to get started using them. Maxon is working on Cinema 4D’s core, and as a technology preview, C4D users can work with the new Scene

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How to Create Tiny Planet Ecosystems in C4D and Octane

Jacob Torres shows his method for creating tiny planets in Cinema 4D. I’ve always been fascinated with those cross-sectioned cube-based landscapes and self-contained ecosystems. Check out this tutorial...

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Rendering Explosions, Fire, and Smoke in Arnold C4D

MographPlus shows how to work with openVDB files and render them with Arnold Arnold has some nice volume shaders that let you render things like fire, smoke, clouds, or even explosions. Check out this...

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How to Output Multiple C4D Node Streams to the Scene Output

Jonas Pilz offers a quick tip for getting multiple outputs into the scene with Scene Nodes. If you are getting into working with Scene Nodes in the latest versions of C4D, you may be wondering how you

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Create Dynamic Rope in Minutes With HoRope

Markus Gonser shows how easy it is to create dynamic rope with HoRope. There is a free and super easy to use tool for Cinema 4D artists to create dynamic ropes and string setups. HoRope is Pasha

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How to Drive Arnold Mesh Lights in Cloners

Shane Benson shows how to connect Arnold to Cloners to make a looping gradient color-change through Mesh Lights. A new tutorial from Shane Benson poses an interesting and solvable problem with Cinema...

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How to Create a Welding Seam Procedurally in C4D

Nikolaus Schatz shows how you can use the free Edge to Spline Procedural Plugin to make welding seams. A little while ago, Athanasios Pozantzis (also known as the Noseman) created a new plugin for a...

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Now’s the Time to Buy C4D Character Packs from Ace5 Studios

Ace5 Studios’ Black Friday sale slashes prices of Cinema 4D character rig bundles. Ace5 Studios is a great place to learn more about the rigging process, along with some other helpful tips for Cinema 4D.

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How to Create Symmetry With the Pose Morph Tag

Aleksey Voznesenski shows how you can make symmetrical adjustments with Pose Morph. Working with symmetry can save a lot of time, especially modeling characters or even hard surface models. There are a...

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How to Create and Connect C4D Nodes at the Same Time

Jonas Pilz shows how you can create and connect scene nodes in C4D all at once. Most apps will allow you to work with nodes, and while the premise is always the same, some will

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How to Snap UVs to Pixels in C4D

Jonas Pilz shows how you can get pixel-perfect accuracy in C4D when Aligning UVs. A new Maxon quick tip tutorial shows how easy it is in C4D R23 to get pixel accurate with placing UVs against an

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How to Create a Linear Color Workflow With Cinema 4D and Redshift

LFO Design looks into color space, color management, and linear color workflow. Color management is something that we all have to look after, and while ACES is the latest and greatest workflow, linear...

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How to Resume Renders With Corona in Cinema 4D

With Corona Renderer, you can stop and resume a render even when you closed the file. Corona Render has functionality that allows you to continue a render, that on its face, seems ordinary but is

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Some of the Ways You Can Control Camera Focus in Cinema 4D

Jonas Pilz shows a few ways that you can control camera focus in C4D. There are only a couple of things that need to happen to get that highly-sought-after bokeh and cinematic depth of field.

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How to Create Natural Lighting With Octaneand C4D

Nick Medukha shows how you can quickly achieve natural and realistic lighting. Lighting never really works out how you first think, yet creating realistic, believable lighting doesn’t have to be that...

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How to Quickly Project a Spline On an Object in C4D

The Pixel Lab shows an easy way to project a Spline in Cinema 4D. There are a lot of uses for being able to project a spline or a curve onto geometry in 3D. Projecting

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