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How to Create Morph Targets out of Sculpting Layers
 

Learn how to create Morph Targets out of Sculpting Layers in Cinema 4D.

In this Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz shows you the workflow of using Cinema 4D’s Sculpting to create face poses. You will learn how to export your sculpts to the Pose Morph tag so you can set keyframes for them.

Recorded in Cinema 4D S22.

 
Jonas Pilz Jul 30 2020 02:25 157
How to Quickly Draw a Live Selection using Move, Scale, and Rotate Tools
 

Learn how to quickly draw a live selection using the Move, Scale and Rotate tools in Cinema 4D.

In this Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz shows that you can simply right-click and drag to create a live selection when you are in the Move, Scale or Rotate tool in Cinema 4D. This workflow comes in very handy during modeling.

Recorded in Cinema 4D S22.

 
Jonas Pilz Jul 23 2020 00:52 293
How to Move and Rotate a Single MoGraph Clone with Viewport Handles
 

Learn how to move and rotate a single MoGraph clone with viewport handles in Cinema 4D.

In this Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz shows you how to move and rotate a single MoGraph clone with viewport handles. You will learn how to use the Formula effector to address a specific clone and attaching it to the effectors position and rotation. This is a useful technique that gives you very precise control over a single clone.

Recorded in Cinema 4D S22.

 
Jonas Pilz Jul 16 2020 02:53 338
Creating a Coral Reef: Series Overview
 

Use Cinema 4D to create a Coral Reef scene

In this series, we will use Cinema 4D to create a Coral Reef scene using Volumes, Hair, Standard Particles, Thinking Particles and Mograph.

 
Vic Garcia Jul 15 2020 00:44 516
Creating a Coral Reef: Building a procedural coral asset using Volumes
 

Create Coral asset using Volume Builder and Volume Mesher

Download the Project File Here: Coral Reef Project File
In this lesson, I’ll show you how to create Coral using a mix of splines, sweep object and Volume builder. We will add detail to the coral using a Random Field and then mesh the coral using the Volume Mesher.

 
Vic Garcia Jul 15 2020 06:52 197
Creating a Coral Reef: Animate Coral with Cloth Tag and Mesh Deformer
 

Use Mesh Deformer and Cloth tag to animate coral

In this lesson, we will use Mesh Deformer on low resolution cage that will be used to drive the animation of the high resolution coral mesh.  We will then use a cloth tag on the low res cage to create an organic dynamic simulation for the high res coral mesh.

 
Vic Garcia Jul 15 2020 06:01 125
Creating a Coral Reef: Loop Coral Animation using the Point Cache Tag and Time Track
 

Use Point Cache tag and Time Track to loop Coral animation

In this lesson, we will create a short 100 frame looped animation for the coral using the Point Cache tag.  We’ll then bake out the animation to Point level animation keyframes and loop the animation using a Time track. 

 
Vic Garcia Jul 15 2020 08:47 113
Creating a Coral Reef: Building the Reef using the Cloner Object and multiple Volumes
 

Use Volume and Displacer object to build Reef Terrain

In this lesson, we will build the reef terrain using a cloner object and multiple volumes to get a very organic look for the terrain.  We’ll finish adding details to the terrain using a displacer object.

 
Vic Garcia Jul 15 2020 09:41 110
Creating a Coral Reef: Populate Reef with coral using Mograph multi-instances
 

Populate Reef with coral using multi-instances

In this lesson, we will populate the reef with coral using mograph multi-instances. We will use the coral we have already created along with some additional coral assets I have included to clone along the surface of the reef.

 
Vic Garcia Jul 15 2020 10:24 112
Creating a Coral Reef: Using a Vertex Map to drive hair and texture growth along the reef surface
 

Using Vertex Map to create Hair on Reef Terrain

In this lesson, we will create a vertex map that will be used to drive Hair growth along the reef surface that will serve as flowing algae.  We will also create a moss like texture and use the same vertex map to restrict it to only appear under the algae.

 
Vic Garcia Jul 15 2020 12:21 112
Creating a Coral Reef: Create underwater bubbles with a Particle Emitter, Cloner Object and Volume
 

Create underwater bubbles using Emitter, Cloner and Volume

In this lesson, we will create some underwater bubbles using standard particle emitter, Cloner Object and Volume.  We will then cache the bubbles out to Alembic which will allow us to easily offset the start time of the bubble animation.

 
Vic Garcia Jul 15 2020 16:04 99
Creating a Coral Reef: Animating a Fish using Deformers and a Vertex map
 

Animate Fish using Deformers and Vertex map

In this lesson, we will use a combination of Bend Deformers and a Jiggle Deformer to animate a fish that will be used to populate our reef scene.

 
Vic Garcia Jul 15 2020 08:54 108
Creating a Coral Reef: Populating the Reef with Fish
 

Create Shoal of Fish

In this lesson, we will use the Standard Emitter along with a Mograph Cloner and Effectors to animate a Shoal of Fish for the scene.

 
Vic Garcia Jul 15 2020 16:14 100
Creating a Coral Reef: Create a School of Fish with Thinking Particles
 

Create School of Fish

In this lesson, we will use Thinking Particles and the Cloner object to create a school of fish for the Reef Scene.  We will create an emitter that will allow the school of fish to loop around a spline. We will then cache out the animation and bring it into the Reef scene. 

 
Vic Garcia Jul 15 2020 23:07 98
Creating a Coral Reef: Lighting the Reef Scene
 

Light the Coral Reef Scene

In this lesson, we will work on Lighting the Coral Reef scene.  We will add some environment lighting along with some subtle god rays as well.

 
Vic Garcia Jul 15 2020 21:13 91
Creating a Coral Reef: Adding Reflections and Finalizing the scene
 

Adding Reflections and finalizing the scene

In this lesson, we will work on adding reflections to the scene using a Sky Object and HDRI map.  We will then fine tune some materials and wrap things up.

 
Vic Garcia Jul 15 2020 11:34 95
How to use the new Loop Selection Option in Cinema 4D S22
 

Learn how to use the new Loop Selection options in Cinema 4D S22.

In this Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz shows you how to use the Loop Selection tool in Cinema 4D S22. You will quickly notice how useful the new options Stop at Selection, Stop at Non-Quad and Stop at Poles are in certain situations.

Recorded in Cinema 4D S22.

 
Jonas Pilz Jul 09 2020 02:30 331
How to Quickly Toggle Viewport Filets in Cinema 4D S22
 

Learn how to quickly toggle Viewport Filters in Cinema 4D S22.

In this Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz shows you how to quickly toggle Viewport Filters in Cinema 4D S22. First, he shows that it’s now possible to undock the Filter menu and later you will learn how to set up shortcuts for Viewport Filters.

Recorded in Cinema 4D S22.

 
Jonas Pilz Jul 02 2020 01:06 337
How to quickly copy Viewport Effects over to the Render Settings
 

Learn how to quickly copy Viewport Effects over to the Render Settings in Cinema 4D S22.

In this Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz shows you how to quickly copy Viewport Effects including anti-aliasing settings over to the Render Settings with a single click.

Recorded in Cinema 4D S22.

 
Jonas Pilz Jun 25 2020 01:15 405
NAB 2020 Tips: Using the Correction Deformer
 

In this NAB 2020 Tip, I will give you a quick overview of how to use the Correction Deformer in order to add details to a simple, joint based, Character Animation, using the Sculpting Brushes.
For more information on the Correction Deformer please also watch this great Video by Edna Kruger: An Artists Guide to All Deformers: The Correction Deformer

 
Athanasios Pozantzis Jun 24 2020 09:01 524
NAB 2020 Tips: Using Effectors Without Cloners
 

In this NAB 2020 Tip, I will show you a few ways to use an Effector without applying it to a Cloner or Matrix Objects. First we will use it as a Deformer, and then using the Fracture Object, so that we can affect individual Objects as if they were cloners.

 
Athanasios Pozantzis Jun 24 2020 06:20 417
NAB 2020 Tips: Using Camera Coordinates from Text Files
 

In this NAB 2020 Tip, we will see how to import positional and rotational data from text files, to use with Cameras and other Objects. For example, if you have data from a Camera Motion Control system that provides position and rotation coordinates, what you would need to do to prepare it for import, use Spines as data containers and XPRESSO to transfer that data to the Camera.

 
Athanasios Pozantzis Jun 24 2020 13:08 372
How to Quickly Delete an Animation Track
 

Learn how to quickly delete an animation track using a shortcut.

Sometimes keyframes are set on the wrong parameter by accident. In this Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz shows you how to quickly delete an animation track using a shortcut.

Recorded in Cinema 4D S22.

 
Jonas Pilz Jun 18 2020 00:53 371
CV-PlaneSmart -  Updated Overview
 

CV-PlaneSmart, is a Plugin for Cinema 4D, that allows you to import Photoshop Layered files and automatically places each layer or Group on an individual 2 Dimensional card, and distributes them in Z space. It also does perspective correction, layer animation using Fields, and will make any relevant workflow, extremely easy. It comes as a tool and a Generator, which allows you to work in a procedural, non destructive way.
Title Animations, Motion Typography, 2.5D Placard Animations and much more can be made easily with CV-PlaneSmart.
In this Video, let’s take a look at how it works, and what you can do with it

 
Athanasios Pozantzis Jun 17 2020 16:43 440
Smoothly Reconnect UV Islands in Cinema 4D S22 – UV Weld & Relax
 

Learn how to smoothly reconnect separated UVs using UV Weld & Relax in Cinema 4D S22.

In this Quick Tip, Darrin Frankovitz shows you how to, quickly and naturally, reconnect UVs that have been separated by using the new “UV Weld & Relax” command in Cinema 4D S22.

Recorded in Cinema 4D S22.

 
Darrin Frankovitz Jun 11 2020 01:51 444
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