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How to UV Unwrap and Relax a Humanoid Character
 

First, we look at the three main things we need to select; UV Polygons, Edges and UV points.

We start with the head by selecting its polygons, then choosing where the seams are using the edges, fix some points to keep it roughly the same and then unwrap.

There are a couple of different algorithms that are available within Cinema 4D, LSCM and ABF. Now whilst ABF is the more modern, it is a tad slower, but is especially good at organic shapes. LSCM involved less distorted UV polygons, so they match their original shape better, but I’ve found they don’t necessarily produce the best map.

In about 15 minutes I manage to get the basics of a simply humanoid character unwrapped.

 
Matt Umney Aug 19 2019 18:01 24 Open Access
 
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How to Create an Office Space: Part 1 - The House Builder
 

Learn how to quickly create an office space in Cinema 4D in this three-part, 40-minute tutorial. First, you’ll build the basic room layout using Cinema 4D’s House Builder. Next, you’ll add doors and windows that you can customize to suit your needs. Lastly, you’ll add content such as desks, computers and toilets, and render shots of the office.

In Part 1, you’ll use the House Builder to create the basic office layout. You’ll learn how divide the space into separate rooms, and how to add openings for doors and windows. You’ll learn how to apply a style to each room that instantly applies preset textures to the floor, walls and ceiling. You’ll also learn how to create your own style presets.

 
Matt Umney Aug 14 2019 15:57 139 Open Access
 
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How to Create an Office Space: Part 2 - Doors and Windows
 

Learn how to quickly create an office space in Cinema 4D in this three-part, 40-minute tutorial.

In part 2, you’ll add doors and windows using the Content Browser. These objects come with many settings that you can adjust. For example, the Window object has settings for the number of vertical and horizontal dividers, as well as their width and depth.

 
Matt Umney Aug 14 2019 10:52 46 Open Access
 
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How to Create an Office Space: Part 3 - Content Browser Objects
 

Learn how to quickly create an office space in Cinema 4D in this three-part, 40-minute tutorial.

In part 3, you’ll add content to the office space. You’ll find out where and how to add various architectural filler items to the scene, such as desks, chairs, and even toilets! You’ll use Symmetry and Instance to more easily handle multiple objects of the same kind. And you’ll create a number of cameras to view the office from different locations. You’ll switch on Ambient Occlusion and Global Illumination for more realistic rendering, and you’ll render out a few different shots.

 
Matt Umney Aug 14 2019 13:43 46 Open Access
 
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How to Light an Interior
 

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to light a room realistically in Cinema 4D.

First, you’ll open a room scene from the Content Browser. Then, you’ll add a Physical Sky object to simulate natural light coming in through the room’s windows.

Next, you’ll get the windows to act as GI Portals (openings in walls through which light enters the room).

You’ll switch on Global Illumination in the Render Settings so that the light will bounce and spread around the room realistically. And you’ll switch on Physical Render for more accurate results.

Finally, you’ll adjust a few of the Global Ilumination settings to ramp up the realism and prevent areas from harsh overexposure.

 
Matt Umney Aug 12 2019 10:26 140 Open Access
 
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How to Transfer a Weight Map over to another Object
 

Learn how to transfer a weight map over to another object.

In this Cinema 4D Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz shows you how to transfer the weights in a vertex map over to a MoGraph selection in order to trigger some dynamics simulation with it. Thanks to Fields being a unified weighting system all over Cinema 4D, this technique also works with any other kind of weight map or selection. Give it a try!

 
Jonas Pilz Aug 08 2019 01:57 108 Open Access
 
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How to Create a Product Visualization Background
 

In this video, we look at how to create a product visualisation background.

We start with a simple disc and add a material with a gradient alpha channel to it.

Then we add a background with a nice luminant material to it.

We create a standard Sky object and add an HDRI.

Using compositing tags we stop the sky from being seen by the camera, or by transparency, and also add a composition background to the disc. This means that it will be self-luminant but allow shadows to be cast.

Adding in a light for shadows, we add Global Illumination to help light the entire scene.

 
Matt Umney Aug 06 2019 05:35 173 Open Access
 
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How to Snap a Manual Tracker back to the Tracked Pattern
 

Learn how to snap a manual tracker back to its initial tracking pattern.

In this Cinema 4D Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz shows you how to snap a manual tracker back to its initial tracking pattern. This technique comes in handy when you want to track a feature in your video footage that is covered by another object for a couple of frames.

 
Jonas Pilz Jul 25 2019 00:53 178 Open Access
 
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Exploring a Character Rig: Part 1 - Walk Cycle
 

In this beginners tutorial we will look at a Character rig and look at the things that make it go! All the controllers and buttons, sliders and movers that mean you can move your character and bring it to life. It won’t make you an expert but I hope it does give you a good starting point if you have never explored this type of animation before.
You will first be directed around a simple Character Rig. You will explore its controllers and how they effect the movement of key areas of the body. You will then explore it’s sliders and how Cinema 4D’s PoseMorph tag allows you to control facial expressions. You will then look at how Cinema 4Ds Xpresso has been used to help control fingers. Finally you will use Cinema 4D’s Automatic Keyframing to produce a simple walk cycle.

 
Matt Umney Jul 24 2019 49:01 279 Open Access
 
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Exploring a Character Rig: Part 2 - Waving
 

This is the second tutorial to be followed after the character animation walk cycle one.
In the second part, you will experiment with the rig to produce an animated wave. You will learn about the principles of animation called Anticipation and Follow through. These help to give more realistic movement to your characters.

 
Matt Umney Jul 24 2019 23:14 106 Open Access
 
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How to use a Video as a Texture
 

In this tutorial, you’ll be adding a video texture onto an object. This is great for simulating things like TV screens and monitors.
You can use a QuickTime movie, AVI or image sequence and add it to the selected object or polygons.
You’ll learn how to control when the video plays in your animation, and which frames are played back. For example, you can loop a range of frames.

 
Matt Umney Jul 22 2019 09:46 221 Open Access
 
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How to Create a Seamless Backdrop and Lighting
 

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a seamless white background for your Cinema 4D renders, and how to light effectively. You will use a Bezier Spline and Extrude Object to produce the smooth background. You will then add Area and Spot lights to control the ambient lighting. You will finish off by adding Ambient Occlusion and Global Illumination to your render settings.

 
Matt Umney Jul 17 2019 10:44 259 Open Access
 
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How to Auto-rename Text Objects
 

In this video, we learn how to make Cinema 4D change the object name of a text object, based on the text in the text box.

 
Matt Umney Jul 15 2019 01:16 185 Open Access
 
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How to use one Filter Layer in Multiple Volume Builders at once
 

Learn how to use a single volume filter in multiple Volume Builders at once.

In this Cinema 4D Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz shows you how to use a single Smooth Filter in multiple Volume Builders at once by utilizing a volume filter object. Of course, this also works for the Reshape Filter. It is a powerful way to keep more complex volume setups easy to adjust.

 
Jonas Pilz Jul 11 2019 01:13 182 Open Access
 
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Brushstroke Animation: Brush Bristles dynamic Setup & Baking
 

Create a life “like” 3d brush stroke using volume modeling tools.

This 4 part series will show you how to create a 3d brush stroke in which the paint is transferred from the brush bristles onto the surface of a canvas. In this example the “canvas” is a 3d model of the Cineversity “C” logo. This method uses alembic baking, mograph caches, and hair dynamics caches for a faster workflow on older machines.

For more information on Volumes in R20 check out: New in Cinema 4D R20: Volumetric Workflowand Cinema 4D Volumes Reference Series: Volume Builder

 
Darrin Frankovitz Jul 10 2019 07:09 283 Open Access
 
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Brushstroke Animation: Matrix Object & Selection Field Setup & Cache
 

Create a life “like” 3d brush stroke using volume modeling tools.

This 4 part series will show you how to create a 3d brush stroke in which the paint is transferred from the brush bristles onto the surface of a canvas. In this example the “canvas” is a 3d model of the Cineversity “C” logo. This method uses alembic baking, mograph caches, and hair dynamics caches for a faster workflow on older machines.

For more information on Volumes in R20 check out: New in Cinema 4D R20: Volumetric Workflowand Cinema 4D Volumes Reference Series: Volume Builder

 
Darrin Frankovitz Jul 10 2019 07:06 230 Member Access
 
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Brushstroke Animation: Creating the Paint Geometry
 

Create a life “like” 3d brush stroke using volume modeling tools.

This 4 part series will show you how to create a 3d brush stroke in which the paint is transferred from the brush bristles onto the surface of a canvas. In this example the “canvas” is a 3d model of the Cineversity “C” logo. This method uses alembic baking, mograph caches, and hair dynamics caches for a faster workflow on older machines.

For more information on Volumes in R20 check out: New in Cinema 4D R20: Volumetric Workflowand Cinema 4D Volumes Reference Series: Volume Builder

 
Darrin Frankovitz Jul 10 2019 06:48 166 Member Access
 
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Brushstroke Animation: Animating Paint Off the Brush
 

Create a life “like” 3d brush stroke using volume modeling tools.

This 4 part series will show you how to create a 3d brush stroke in which the paint is transferred from the brush bristles onto the surface of a canvas. In this example the “canvas” is a 3d model of the Cineversity “C” logo. This method uses alembic baking, mograph caches, and hair dynamics caches for a faster workflow on older machines.

For more information on Volumes in R20 check out: New in Cinema 4D R20: Volumetric Workflowand Cinema 4D Volumes Reference Series: Volume Builder

 
Darrin Frankovitz Jul 10 2019 09:20 186 Member Access
 
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How to Create Secondary Motion with Soft IK
 

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create secondary motion in Cinema 4D using Soft IK, where parts of a character, like antennae, hair or floppy ears, wobble and bounce automatically as the character moves.
You’ll look at how to create Soft IK, and how it can be applied to a character. First, you’ll produce your character from a Sphere, using Extrude to give it details, and a Subdivision Surface to smooth it out. You’ll add a little bit of colour to make it stand out.
Then, using the Joint Tool, you’ll create the necessary joints for your character, then bind them together. Creating an IK Chain comes next, followed by adjusting the settings in the Dynamics tab to allow you to get that perfect secondary motion.

 
Matt Umney Jul 03 2019 10:48 610 Open Access
 
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How to use the Lightbox
 

In this video, we look at the Lightbox scene setup. Which can be found in the content browser for Cinema 4D Visualise and Studio.

 
Matt Umney Jul 01 2019 04:57 739 Open Access
 
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How to Create Simple Seamless Texture Mapping
 

Learn how to create simple seamless texture mapping.

In this Cinema 4D Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz shows you how to create simple seamless texture mapping using triplanar projection in a node-based material.

 
Jonas Pilz Jun 27 2019 02:52 574 Open Access
 
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How to Adjust Keyframe Interpolation
 

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to adjust keyframe interpolation in Cinema 4D - i.e. how to control what happens to an object’s animation between the keyframes. By default, Cinema 4D applies ease-in and ease-out to the motion of objects, meaning that they will speed up at the start and then slow down at the end. You can change this by adjusting an F-Curve (Function-Curve).
First, you’ll have a quick run-through of how to record keyframes in Cinema 4D. Then you’ll access the F-Curve, which controls the animation between the keyframes. You’ll adjust the F-Curve to radically alter away from the default ease-in and ease-out, such as to get an object to move at constant speed.

 
Matt Umney Jun 26 2019 11:33 525 Open Access
 
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How to Customise Menus in Cinema 4D
 

In this quick tip, learn how to create your own custom menus for Cinema 4D.

 
Matt Umney Jun 24 2019 02:00 427 Open Access
 
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How to Adjust Node Interfaces using the Resource Editor
 

Learn how to adjust interfaces for material nodes by using the Resource Editor.

In this Cinema 4D Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz shows you how use the powerful Resource Editor to adjust node interfaces to your liking. He will explain the Resource Editor quickly and then tweak some of the parameter interfaces in a node group.

 
Jonas Pilz Jun 20 2019 02:28 469 Open Access
 
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How to Create Underwater Lighting
 

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the complex light patterns that form under water, using a technique that renders very quickly.
Although Cinema 4D supports caustics, which recreates the underwater lighting effect very accurately, the downside is that it can slow down your render times considerably due to the complex calculations involved.
Here you’ll learn how to create fake caustics that render fast, to recreate the amazing light dance that appears on the ocean bed or swimming pool floor. You’ll also pick up a few tips on how to quickly create and texture underwater terrain.

 
Matt Umney Jun 18 2019 10:27 697 Open Access
 
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