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Demystifying Post Production: Plan! Shoot! Edit! Grade! VFX! (1/5)
 

Join the Maxon Training Team as we break down an entire production, covering planning, camera prep, shooting, grading, and workflows for adding VFX. We’ll be featuring short films by director Anthony Bari Jr, discussing the camera shoot, jumping into both technical and non-technical aspects, and sharing creative choices all through the projects.

We’ll be showing workflows and techniques for Adobe Premiere Pro, Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve, After Effects, Red Giant and Cinema 4D, whilst also sharing some of the challenges the crew had on set, and the creative solutions to overcome them.

Week 1: Plan
We will start from concept creation through gear preparation, shooting tests and the logistics that can cause a pivot from the original vision, and the importance of maintaining calm, clear thoughts while switching gears to keep others engaged in your vision. Joining us is producer Sammy Muñoz, as we discuss what makes up the elements of a successful shoot, including mapping out the production when plans change.

Project File: Plan! Shoot! Edit! Grade! VFX!

 
Maxon Training Team Aug 02 2022 64:55 215
#AskTheTrainer | Making of Grump in the Night
 

A special edition of #AskTheTrainer where we chat with Director Kris Theorin from Something’s Awry about the making of their excellent 3D animated short Grump in the Night, including techniques for ZBrush, Cinema 4D, Redshift and After Effects, including techniques for integrating mocap into the animation.

Watch the film here: https://somethingsawry.com/project/grump-in-the-night/

 
Maxon Training Team Jul 28 2022 90:06 123
How to speed up remeshing on volume meshes in Cinema 4D
 

In this Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz (@jonaspilz3d) shows how to speed up remeshing on volume meshes in Cinema 4D to make adjustments more interactive – simply by procedurally decreasing the polygon count in the Volume Mesher.

Free assets from the Cinema 4D Asset Browser used in this Quick Tip:
Bamboo - Bright - 50x50

Recorded in Cinema 4D S26.1.

 
Jonas Pilz Jul 28 2022 02:08 119
Demystifying Post Production Wonderful World of Particles, 4 of 4
 

Join the Maxon Training Team every Monday in July as we explore a wide variety of tools for creating particles in post-production, featuring Cinema 4D, Redshift, X-Particles, After Effects, Particular, Houdini, and Unreal Engine.

We’ll cover a brief history of particles, explore workflows for different situations, show unconventional creative treatments, and help you transfer your particle knowledge across multiple tools.


Week Four

In the final week, Chad will introduce us to the world of Houdini, as well as how to create basic particle simulations there.

We will learn about shelf tools (which are similar to presets) and how to modify them, as well as infusing points with velocity and other particle attributes.

We will then take a very brief look at lighting and rendering using Redshift in Houdini. And we’ll wrap up by hopping over into Unreal and taking a quick look at creating particles natively there using its powerful Niagara system.

Project Files: Wonderful World of Particles

 
Maxon Training Team Jul 26 2022 78:07 91
Max On Color | Exploring Saturation
 

In this episode, Max and Diego explore some various available methods to tweak the saturation to spice up your image.  Oftentimes, simple basic adjustment like cleverly adding saturation is what you need to add that “Oomph” to your grade. 

So, join us in this episode of Max On Color to learn more about various different methods to add saturation to your image.

 
Maxon Training Team Jul 21 2022 86:35 79
How to reroute wires in the Node Editor in Cinema 4D
 

In this Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz (@jonaspilz3d) shows how to reroute wires in Cinema 4D’s Node Editor to clean up the node graph. You will learn how to create rerouting knots, how to connect and disconnect wires and even how you can use them for branching.

Free assets from the Cinema 4D Asset Browser used in this Quick Tip:
None, but you should definitely check them out!

Recorded in Cinema 4D S26.1.

 
Jonas Pilz Jul 21 2022 01:37 78
Demystifying Post Production: Wonderful World of Particles - Part 3 of 4
 

Join the Maxon Training Team every Monday in July as we explore a wide variety of tools for creating particles in post-production, featuring Cinema 4D, Redshift, X-Particles, After Effects, Particular, Houdini, and Unreal Engine.

We’ll cover a brief history of particles, explore workflows for different situations, show unconventional creative treatments, and help you transfer your particle knowledge across multiple tools.

Week 3
This week will be a melding of past and future particles in Adobe After Effects as we stroll down memory lane. Chad will take us through the particle systems that are native to After Effects, and the effects he used to create using tools from pre-Particular times. Understanding the functionality of older solutions such as Foam, Shatter, and the Cycore particle effects can help us get more out of newer tools. He will then bring us into the modern era with some easy and powerful tricks using Trapcode Particular.

Project Files: Wonderful World of Particles

 
Maxon Training Team Jul 19 2022 73:34 81
#AskTheTrainer | UVs
 

Join us for another exciting #AskTheTrainer session on Thursday 14th July 2022 at 8am Pacific, as Cinema 4D Master Trainers Noseman and Jonas Pilz are going to talk about UV workflows in Cinema 4D.
Make sure to prepare some questions!

 
Maxon Training Team Jul 14 2022 79:42 83
How to smooth topology while keeping surface details in Cinema 4D
 

In this Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz (@jonaspilz3d) shows how to smooth topology while keeping surface details using the Brush and Magnet tools in Cinema 4D. You will learn about the difference between Smooth and Relax mode.

Free assets from the Cinema 4D Asset Browser used in this Quick Tip:
None, but you should definitely check them out!

Recorded in Cinema 4D S26.1.

 
Jonas Pilz Jul 14 2022 01:36 100
Hands-on with Maxon: Cinema 4D Level-up - Working with Redshift
 

Welcome to a brand new Hands-on with Maxon Workshop, designed to boost Cinema 4D Artists to the next level of their 3D journey. This series is aimed at designers with an initial understanding of Cinema 4D and over six weeks will dive deeper into the essentials of working with; Modeling, Simulation, Motion, Redshift, and much more.

Throughout these 2-hour sessions Elly and Matt will guide you on your 3D journey where students are invited to follow along with project-based lessons across a wide range of Cinema 4D Tools. Get unlimited access to scene files, assets and session recordings, but not only that, all registrants will benefit from an extended Trial of Maxon One for the duration of the course.

Part 6 - Working with Redshift
- Lighting (Dome Light, HDRI, Area Lights)
- RS Camera
- Node Materials
- C4D Node Editor vs RS Shader Graph
- Steampunk Material
- Render Settings Overview

Project Files Download: https://bit.ly/HOWMaxon_LevelUp

 
Maxon Training Team Jul 14 2022 90:00 137
Demystifying Post Production: Wonderful World of Particles - Part 2 of 4
 

Join the Maxon Training Team every Monday in July as we explore a wide variety of tools for creating particles in post-production, featuring Cinema 4D, Redshift, X-Particles, After Effects, Particular, Houdini, and Unreal Engine.

We’ll cover a brief history of particles, explore workflows for different situations, show unconventional creative treatments, and help you transfer your particle knowledge across multiple tools.

Week 2
Cinema 4D Master Trainer Lionel Vicidomini shows you how to get up-and-running with INSYDIUM X-Particles, including a general overview, getting set up, practical examples, and combinations with Redshift to create stunning visuals. We’re also joined by X-Particles legend Bob Walmsley, answering questions and adding essential insights.

Project Files: Wonderful World of Particles

 
Maxon Training Team Jul 12 2022 70:33 92
Demystifying Post Production: Wonderful World of Particles - Part 1 of 4
 

Join the Maxon Training Team every Monday in July as we explore a wide variety of tools for creating particles in post-production, featuring Cinema 4D, Redshift, X-Particles, After Effects, Particular, Houdini, and Unreal Engine.

We’ll cover a brief history of particles, explore workflows for different situations, show unconventional creative treatments, and help you transfer your particle knowledge across multiple tools.

Week 1
Master Trainer and particle expert Lionel Vicidomini kicks off the series by looking at the variety of methods you can use natively in Cinema 4D to create and manipulate particles, including standard particles, forcefield, particles on a spline, and clever ways to use the MoGraph tools. You’ll see that Cinema 4D is a very capable tool for creating amazing scenes of dancing particles!
(this is the version with better fps on the recording)

Project Files: Wonderful World of Particles

 
Maxon Training Team Jul 11 2022 69:15 93
Demystifying Post Production: Voyages Across Applications (Part 4)
 

Join Maxon Trainers Chad Perkins, Elly Wade and Lionel Vicidomini every Monday in April, as they Travel The World, exploring how to move content and data in and out of multiple Maxon tools and applications.

Week 4 – Cineware in After Effects
In the final and very special episode of this series, we’ll adventure together as this session will take place LIVE from NAB 2022 in Las Vegas! Chad will look at a plethora of ways to bring everything together using the wide collection of Red Giant tools as a Premiere Pro editor. We’ll look at adapting presets, using MOGRTs with Trapcode tools to control particle systems from right from within in Premiere Pro, and explore a host of powerful Red Giant tools for motion graphics and visual effects that are native to Premiere Pro. Vacation: all we ever wanted!

 
Maxon Training Team Jul 11 2022 41:04 80
Max On Color | Color Bootcamp - Demystifying ACES with Cullen Kelly Part 2
 

Max On Color | Color Bootcamp - Demystifying ACES with Cullen Kelly

Joining us in this episode of Max On Color, colorist and image scientist Cullen Kelly shares his experience of the ACES Color Management framework. This is your chance to learn and interact with Cullen directly, find out more about ACES, and how you can incorporate it in your next color grading project.

Picking up from where he had left off on the previous episode, Cullen Kelly will be discussing about some very interesting topics such as:
• The challenges of the AP1 primary set
• The ACES 1.3 gamut compression algorithm
• Using LUTs, LMTs, and implementing looks within ACES
• The drawbacks of tonemapping in RGB
• What’s on the horizon for ACES 2.0

Cullen Kelly is a Los Angeles-based senior colorist and image scientist with credits including the 2021 Oscar-nominated short film Feeling Through, series for Netflix and HBO, and brand work for Microsoft, Kellogg’s, and Sephora. A thought leader in motion imaging, he shares his knowledge through his YouTube channel, writing and speaking engagements, and private consultation. He’s also the creator of Colloid, a set of custom color grading tools used by many of the world’s top colorists and facilities. With a background in image science as well as the arts, he’s passionate about the intersection of the creative and technical, and its role in great visual storytelling.

https://www.cullenkellycolor.com/

 
Maxon Training Team Jul 07 2022 90:00 73
VFX and Chill | Return of the VFX TIMER!!!
 

It’s VFX on a time limit!
Seth is out this week, so Hashi does a suggestion box episode with a timer. Your visual effects suggestions, DONE - in 20 minutes!

 
Red Giant Jul 07 2022 90:00 539
How to attach simulated cloth to other objects in Cinema 4D
 

In this Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz (@jonaspilz3d) shows how to attach simulated cloth to other objects in Cinema 4D using the Cloth Belt tag. This way you can create ribbons and flags on a stick, dress a character with a skirt, and much more.

Free assets from the Cinema 4D Asset Browser used in this Quick Tip:
Bamboo - Bright - 50x50

Recorded in Cinema 4D S26.

 
Jonas Pilz Jul 07 2022 03:00 497
Hands-on with Maxon: Cinema 4D Level-up - Working with Color
 

Hands-on with Maxon: Cinema 4D Level-up - Working with Color

Welcome to a brand new Hands-on with Maxon Workshop, designed to boost Cinema 4D Artists to the next level of their 3D journey. This series is aimed at designers with an initial understanding of Cinema 4D and over six weeks will dive deeper into the essentials of working with; Modeling, Simulation, Motion, Redshift, and much more.

Throughout these 2-hour sessions Elly and Matt will guide you on your 3D journey where students are invited to follow along with project-based lessons across a wide range of Cinema 4D Tools. Get unlimited access to scene files, assets and session recordings, but not only that, all registrants will benefit from an extended Trial of Maxon One for the duration of the course.

Part 5 - Working with Color
- Different Color Possibilities in Cinema 4D/Redshift
- Vertex Color
- Vertex Maps & Vertex Data in Redshift (Vertex Attribute Node)
- MoGraph Color
- Color User Data in Redshift
- Color Blending and Masking (Material Blending)
- Color with Lights & Volumetric Lighting

Project Files Download:

 

 
Maxon Training Team Jul 05 2022 90:00 411
Demystifying Post Production: Wonderful World of Particles - Part 1 of 4
 

Join the Maxon Training Team every Monday in July as we explore a wide variety of tools for creating particles in post-production, featuring Cinema 4D, Redshift, X-Particles, After Effects, Particular, Houdini, and Unreal Engine.

We’ll cover a brief history of particles, explore workflows for different situations, show unconventional creative treatments, and help you transfer your particle knowledge across multiple tools.

Week 1
Master Trainer and particle expert Lionel Vicidomini kicks off the series by looking at the variety of methods you can use natively in Cinema 4D to create and manipulate particles, including standard particles, forcefield, particles on a spline, and clever ways to use the MoGraph tools. You’ll see that Cinema 4D is a very capable tool for creating amazing scenes of dancing particles!

 
Maxon Training Team Jul 04 2022 69:22 313
How to replace one material with another in Cinema 4D
 

In this Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz (@jonaspilz3d) shows two ways of replacing materials in Cinema 4D. One way will the original materials in the Material Manager and the other will replace and delete the original material.

Free assets from the Cinema 4D Asset Browser used in this Quick Tip:
KB_PipeCorner_C
KB_Pipe_G
KB_Hexagon_E
KB_Geometric_E
KB_Cross_F
KB_Connector (various)
KB_Pipes_B
KB_Pipes_E
Parquet 03 - Bamboo - Planks
Gold
Concrete 12 - Rough - Texture

Recorded in Cinema 4D S26.

 
Jonas Pilz Jun 30 2022 02:11 238
Hands-on with Maxon: Cinema 4D Level-up - Working with Motion
 

Welcome to a brand new Hands-on with Maxon Workshop, designed to boost Cinema 4D Artists to the next level of their 3D journey. This series is aimed at designers with an initial understanding of Cinema 4D and over six weeks will dive deeper into the essentials of working with; Modeling, Simulation, Motion, Redshift, and much more.

Throughout these 2-hour sessions Elly and Matt will guide you on your 3D journey where students are invited to follow along with project-based lessons across a wide range of Cinema 4D Tools. Get unlimited access to scene files, assets and session recordings, but not only that, all registrants will benefit from an extended Trial of Maxon One for the duration of the course.

Part 4 – Working with Motion
- Understanding Vertex Maps
- Vertex Map Possibilities
- Vertex Maps with MoGraph
- Voronoi Fracture Object
- Recreate Tendril/ESPN Floor Fracture Scene
- Combining Voronoi Fracture and Dynamics
- Dynamics with Collisions
- Dynamics and Voronoi Fracturing with Fields

Project Files Download: https://bit.ly/HOWMaxon_LevelUp

 
Maxon Training Team Jun 30 2022 90:00 314
#AskTheTrainer | Meet The Trainers | June 30, 2022
 

Join us for a special #AskTheTrainer session on Thursday 30th June 2022 at 8am Pacific, as the Maxon Training team share some stories and insights from their professional life, and answering questions related to their production disciplines.

 
Maxon Training Team Jun 30 2022 80:42 132
Demystifying Post Production Sculpt! Model! Render! Composite! (4/4)
 

Join us live every Monday in June as the Maxon Training Team lead you through a creative 3D project, taking you from the initial sculpt to the finished composite. We’ll be sharing essential techniques in ZBrush, Cinema 4D, Redshift and Red Giant plug-ins in After Effects, providing timesaving tips to help you make eye-catching creative visuals.

Week 4:
In this session, VFX Artist Chad Perkins takes the project elements conceived and rendered by Ana Carolina and Elly, and composite them in After Effects. You’ll learn how to combine AOVs in After Effects, including working with Redshift light groups, how to use the depth pass to matte particles in Trapcode Particular, how to use the source Cinema 4D file through Cineware and Mir to create additional passes that can be used as layer maps in Particular, as well as other quick and simple techniques to add polish and bring the render to life.

Download project files from the Demystifying Post Production sessions:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kb9d61axjuvxxhs/AADWVbO35A85kUA2fSbMMosDa?dl=0

 
Maxon Training Team Jun 27 2022 63:31 160
VFX and Chill | VFX Royale VI
 

Learn compositing tricks in After Effects, editing tips in Premiere Pro, techniques for quickly building a scene in Cinema 4D, cloth simulations in C4D, and more as Seth, Hashi, and Michael make fictional characters have pretend fights!
RuPaul (from RuPaul’s Drag Race) vs. the Demogorgon (from Stranger Things)
Tim Allen (as Tim the Tool Time Taylor from Home Improvement) vs. Chris Evans (as Captain America from the MCU)
Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) from Home Alone vs. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) from The Shining

 
Red Giant Jun 24 2022 90:00 381
#AskTheTrainer | Working with Axes
 

Join us for another exciting #AskTheTrainer session on Thursday 23rd June 2022 at 8am Pacific, as Cinema 4D Master Trainers Noseman and Jonas Pilz are going to talk about advanced axis workflows in Cinema 4D. Although this seems to be a very basic topic, you will be surprised about all the things you can do with axes.

 
Maxon Training Team Jun 23 2022 81:14 278
Hands on with Maxon: Cinema 4D Level-Up - Working with Simulation
 

Welcome to a brand new Hands-on with Maxon Workshop, designed to boost Cinema 4D Artists to the next level of their 3D journey. This series is aimed at designers with an initial understanding of Cinema 4D and over six weeks will dive deeper into the essentials of working with; Modeling, Simulation, Motion, Redshift, and much more.

Throughout these 2-hour sessions Elly and Matt will guide you on your 3D journey where students are invited to follow along with project-based lessons across a wide range of Cinema 4D Tools. Get unlimited access to scene files, assets and session recordings, but not only that, all registrants will benefit from an extended Trial of Maxon One for the duration of the course.

Part 3 – Working with Simulation
- New Simulation Tools (S26); Rope and Cloth
- Other Simulation Tags; Rope Belt, Connector and Collider
- Project Settings (Simulation Settings) for Errors
- C4D’s Native Particle Emitter
- Forces and Field Force Object
- Redshift Object Tag (Rendering Particles)

Project Files Download: https://bit.ly/HOWMaxon_LevelUp

 
Maxon Training Team Jun 23 2022 90:00 455
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