How to Use the Symmetrize Command to Speed Up Modeling in Cinema 4D
Jonas Pilz offers tips to mirror geometry in Cinema 4D using the Symmetrize command. Mirroring and creating symmetry is a way to reduce the number of things you have to model in 3D. With Maxon
View ArticleHow to Generate Random Values With Octane in Cinema 4D
SilverwingVFX shows different ways to generate random values with Octane, perfect for shader-building. Hot off the heels of his last tutorial that showed how to randomize texture offsets to create...
View ArticleHow to Render Pyro in Cinema 4D
Jonas Pilz shows how to create a Pyro material to instantly make a Pyro sim look great. New to Maxon Cinema 4D is a new Pyro system that lets you easily create fire, smoke, and explosions in
View ArticleHow to Get C4D Pyro Rendering With Octane
SilverwingVFX shows a couple of ways to render Cinema 4D 2023.1 Pyro with Octane Renderer. A new version of Octane has a native capability to render Cinema 4D Pyro sims, but you can do it with
View ArticleHow to Paint With Pyro in Cinema 4D
Elizabeth Steinberg shows how to make colorful ink and liquid effects with Pyro in Cinema 4D. Check out this new tutorial from Friends of Motion (Elizabeth Steinberg) that shows how to paint with Pyro in
View ArticleHow to Create a Sticky Logo Effect With Cloth in C4D
CG Shortcuts uses the new unified simulation tools in C4D to create and splat anything on a wall. Regarding dynamics, having a unified system where you can share all the features among tools is essential.
View ArticleWorking With Cryptomatte in Cinema 4D, Octane, and After Effects
SilverwingVFX shows how to set up Cryptomattes in Cinema 4D under Octane and work with those in After Effects. Cryptomattes changed how AOVs get made by automating a lot of the setup process....
View ArticleHow to Easily Use How to use Symmetrize with Radial Symmetry in Cinema 4D
Jonas Pilz shows how to use Symmetrize command with Radial Symmetry in Cinema 4D by defining the correct source slice. Mirroring and creating symmetry is a way to reduce the number of things you have
View ArticleHow to Make Cloth-Based Landscapes in Cinema 4D
Jacob Torres shows how to use C4D dynamic tools to make cloth-based landscapes in Cinema 4D. Cinema 4D 2023 recently added a unified dynamics system, and things like cloth, fluids, and more became more...
View ArticleCheck Out This Overview of the Render Layer System in Octane
SilverwingVFX offers insights into the Render Layer System in Octane under Cinema 4D. SilverwingfVFX (Raphael Rau) covers an overview of the render layer system in Octane Render. Don’t confuse Render...
View ArticleHow to Work With ACES Color in Octane C4D
New Plastic shows how to work with ACES colorspace in Octane under Maxon Cinema 4D. Once you have a color management pipeline like ACES, everything changes. You’ll never work in sRGB again. Check out this
View ArticleHow to Create Braided Rope Sculptures in Cinema 4D
3DBonfire shows how to make hyper-realistic braided rope sculptures in Cinema 4D S26 and higher. This new tutorial from 3DBonfire (Markus Gonser) covers how to work with the latest iterations of the...
View ArticleHow to Bake Textures, Noise, and Gradients With Octane and C4D
SilverwingVFX dives deep into baking textures in Octane, showing when and why to perform these tasks in a workflow. All 3D DCCs will allow you to perform some kind of baking operations. Here,...
View ArticleCheck Out This Hard-Surface Zremesher Workflow in Cinema 4D
Polygon Pen shows how to work with zRemesher in Maxon Cinema 4D for hard-surface workflows. One of the first things Maxon did with the acquisition of Zbrush was to pull out zRemesher and bring it
View ArticleHow to Create the Northern Lights With Cinema 4D
Daniel Danielsson shows how to use the standard renderer in Cinema 4D to create a Northern Lights effect. This new tutorial from Daniel Danielsson covers creating an Aurora Borealis effect in Cinema...
View ArticleHow to Simulate Clone Objects With Proxies in Cinema 4D
Maxon’s Jonas Pilz shows how to simulate clone objects using proxy geometry in Cinema 4D. Everything is coming up sims in C4D now that dynamic tools got some updates. Check out this new tutorial from...
View ArticleHow to Extract Anything in Octane as an AOV
SilverwingVFX shows how to extract textures (or anything) from the Node Editor to AOVs with Octane and Cinema 4D. SilverwingfVFX (Raphael Rau) keeps the spirit of the ‘quick tip’ with this short...
View ArticleHow to Work With an Octane Z-Depth Pass in After Effects
New Plastic shows more uses for a Z-Depth pass from Octane than the classic Depth-of-Field blur. Z-Depth or Z passes are great for tweaking a render in post or composite. Usually, a Z-Depth pass is
View ArticleWorking With Octane’s New One-Click ACES Solution in Cinema 4D
SilverwingVFX looks into working with Octane Render’s new one-click solution for ACES in Cinema 4D. This new tutorial from SilverwingfVFX (Raphael Rau) shows off one of the latest features in Octane, a...
View ArticleHow to Create Collision-Triggered Dynamic Fracturing in Cinema 4D With...
Expresso Mechanic TV shows how to trigger the Voronoi Fracture Object in Cinema 4D using a combination of Xpresso and Python. Dynamics are a blast, usually. Still, if you need to art-direct a shot to
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