Cineversity

Join Cinema 4D expert instructor Joe Herman for a comprehensive six-part webinar series that will show you how to use the world-class rigging tools in Cinema 4D. Follow Joe on Twitter & Instagram: @JoeHermanArtist

Episode 5: More on the Character Object and Features

- Animation tips with the Character Object rig
- How and when to switch between IK and FK using the Character Object rig
- Using CMotion on a Character Object rig

Download project files and course outline: https://bit.ly/HOWMaxon_Files_Rigging

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Rigging is a crucial skill to have in the field of computer animation, enabling you to animate fully articulated 3D characters, anthropomorphic forms, mechanical objects and more.

This series will start with the fundamentals and progress to accomplished rigging concepts, including point weighting, constraints, FK, IK and pose morphs. It will also cover other important topics such C-Motion, C4D’s powerful tool to generate cyclical motion, and the Pose Library, a critical tool for performing character animation.

Get comfortable with rigging in just 6 weeks! These 2-hour sessions are designed for artists with little to no experience in rigging and will be run inside of Cinema 4D R25, with sample project files and assets provided. Attendees are invited to follow along with the techniques shown throughout the session, however they are also recorded and available to re-watch in your own time.

Join Maxon Trainers Chad Perkins, Elly Wade and Vincent 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 1: Cineware MoGraph Transitions
In our maiden voyage, our travel buddy Lionel Vicidomini will show us how to quickly create amazing MoGraph transitions, and then create variations of them using the Take System. We’ll then pack our bags and take all of these variations on over to After Effects where we can access them via Cineware.

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

In this April Fool’s episode, Hashi and Seth pretended to cover invisible effects, but instead added dinosaurs to a Hollywood musical!
Learn more about Universe Raptorize: https://www.maxon.net/en/article/new-addition-to-universe-adds-reptilian-flair-to-tom-cruises-performances

Join us for a special #AskTheTrainer session on Thursday 31st March 2022 at 8am Pacific, as the Maxon Training team talk about their own paths into the industry, sharing some stories and insights, and answering questions related to their production disciplines.

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Join Cinema 4D expert instructor Joe Herman for a comprehensive six-part webinar series that will show you how to use the world-class rigging tools in Cinema 4D. Follow Joe on Twitter & Instagram: @JoeHermanArtist

Episode 4: Character Rigging and The Character Object

- Basic rigging of IK legs and feet
- Creating a walk cycle
- The Character Object
- Building the rig
- Binding and Adjusting the rig

Download project files and course outline: https://bit.ly/HOWMaxon_Files_Rigging

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Rigging is a crucial skill to have in the field of computer animation, enabling you to animate fully articulated 3D characters, anthropomorphic forms, mechanical objects and more.

This series will start with the fundamentals and progress to accomplished rigging concepts, including point weighting, constraints, FK, IK and pose morphs. It will also cover other important topics such C-Motion, C4D’s powerful tool to generate cyclical motion, and the Pose Library, a critical tool for performing character animation.

Get comfortable with rigging in just 6 weeks! These 2-hour sessions are designed for artists with little to no experience in rigging and will be run inside of Cinema 4D R25, with sample project files and assets provided. Attendees are invited to follow along with the techniques shown throughout the session, however they are also recorded and available to re-watch in your own time.

In this Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz (@jonaspilz3d) shows how to adjust the scale of a whole project in Cinema 4D. This can be helpful when you open projects with incorrect scale or modelled something without caring about scales in the first place.

Free assets from the Cinema 4D Asset Browser used in this Quick Tip:
Cheese.c4d

Recorded in Cinema 4D R25.

Join Maxon Trainers Elly Wade, Lionel Vicidomini and Dustin Valkema as they dive into some exciting techniques using Redshift. Throughout this four-part series the team will breakdown interesting new ways to increase your Redshift rendering skills. From rendering particles and volumes, to building complex layered materials and even jumping into sub-surface scattering!

Elly Wade guides us through working with Subsurface Scattering inside Redshift, in an easy to understand and artistic way. She looks at creating some stylized textures and discover how object size and lighting are essential factors when working with Subsurface Scattering.

Project Files: https://bit.ly/RaiseyourRedshiftGame

It’s the third VFX Royale! Hashi, Seth, and Michael spin the wheel to find out what fictional characters they’re gonna make fight! Tom Hanks, John McClane, Invisible Man, Predator, Alien, and a shaggy dog! Let’s fight!

Join us for another exciting #AskTheTrainer session on Thursday 24th March 2022 at 8am Pacific, as Cinema 4D Master Trainers Noseman and Jonas Pilz are going to talk about the basics of the powerful Fields system. Driven by your questions, they will explain what Fields are and where in Cinema 4D you can use them.

In this Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz shows how to bring up the help documentation for any parameter in Cinema 4D.

Free assets from the Cinema 4D Asset Browser used in this Quick Tip:
Breaking Connector.c4d

Recorded in Cinema 4D R25.

Join Cinema 4D expert instructor Joe Herman for a comprehensive six-part webinar series that will show you how to use the world-class rigging tools in Cinema 4D. Follow Joe on Twitter & Instagram: @JoeHermanArtist

Episode 3: Constraints & C-Motion

- Intro to C-Motion
- Using C-Motion to make the bird wings flap
- Rigging an anthropomorphic character with FK arms and IK feet
- Creating a controller
- How to set up squash and stretch on IK bones
- Using C-Motion to create a walk cycle for the character

Download project files and course outline: https://bit.ly/HOWMaxon_Files_Rigging

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Rigging is a crucial skill to have in the field of computer animation, enabling you to animate fully articulated 3D characters, anthropomorphic forms, mechanical objects and more.

This series will start with the fundamentals and progress to accomplished rigging concepts, including point weighting, constraints, FK, IK and pose morphs. It will also cover other important topics such C-Motion, C4D’s powerful tool to generate cyclical motion, and the Pose Library, a critical tool for performing character animation.

Get comfortable with rigging in just 6 weeks! These 2-hour sessions are designed for artists with little to no experience in rigging and will be run inside of Cinema 4D R25, with sample project files and assets provided. Attendees are invited to follow along with the techniques shown throughout the session, however they are also recorded and available to re-watch in your own time.

Join Maxon Trainers Elly Wade, Lionel Vicidomini and Dustin Valkema as they dive into some exciting techniques using Redshift. Throughout this four-part series the team will breakdown interesting new ways to increase your Redshift rendering skills. From rendering particles and volumes, to building complex layered materials and even jumping into sub-surface scattering!

Master Trainer Dustin Valkema walks us through his workflows on building complexity in materials using Redshift inside Cinema 4D. Dustin discusses how he approaches material building and his methods behind the task. Be ready to learn some fun workflow tips and tricks to create surface and color breakup, as well as complex masks to make the most out of your material creation process.

Project Files: https://bit.ly/RaiseyourRedshiftGame

A special VFX and Grill episode where Hashi, Michael, and special guest Elly Wade from the @Maxon Training Team react to your VFX clips!
Sorry it cut off suddenly at the end, blame Hashi’s internet. But at least we finished with a great shot!

In this short follow up video Max is explaining how to use the test images from Max On Color | Color Bootcamp inside DaVinci Resolve.

The main idea of the test is that it is better to do adjustment to our image in a bigger color space rather than in a smaller color space.
Don’t forget to download the project files and test your tool in the setup.

In this Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz shows how to reset parameters to their default values in Cinema 4D. He explains multiple ways to reset single parameters as well as all parameters of an object in one go.

Free assets from the Cinema 4D Asset Browser used in this Quick Tip:
Banana - Push Apart.c4d

Recorded in Cinema 4D R25.

Join our resident Maxon colorist and ICA instructor Maximus Raharjo, as he hosts a fortnightly grading show, showcasing looks, techniques, tips, settings, LUTs and workflows, designed to help you learn more about color correction and grading. Max will feature industry guests who will also share how they approach the grading process, providing invaluable production information, helping you to become a better colorist.

This time, Max and Chad will be joined by Dr. Sassi in a very special episode of Max On Color - Color Bootcamp.

In this Color Bootcamp episode, the trio will explore various technical aspects and terms which you often found when dealing with color management.

Color Bootcamp is a sub series of Max On Color dedicated to demystifying complicated technical color aspects and workflows to make it more digestible.

Download the project files: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hw8ozzwogcrgxjz/AABkhb7kapc5dgs4yMXA1N44a?dl=0

00:00:00 Waiting Loop
00:05:48 Welcome
00:08:02 Housekeeping
00:08:36 Hello Chad!
00:09:42 Intro
00:13:20 8, 16, 32 Bit depth
00:14:36 __ 8 bit/channel [integer]
00:17:39 __ Retro Indexed color
00:18:57 __ 8 bit-banding
00:19:33 __ 16 bit/channel [integer]
00:20:28 __ 32 bit / channel [float]
00:23:38 __ Example linear light blur
00:28:27 Q Blooming only in 32bit/ch/float
00:30:00 Five little explorations
00:32:58 __ Chromaticity diagram
00:34:19 __ Example “white” [1]
00:36:59 __ Example “Rainbow” [2]
00:39:42 __ Example “Color Clipping” [3]
00:41:42 Q Why don’t I see different colors
00:50:52 __ Example “Color Energy” [4]
00:54:36 __ Example “Detail Energy” [5]
00:56:45 Q Converting to a new color-profile
01:02:18 __ How to use the test images in DaVinci Resolve
01:03:05 Q Gamut volume/space visualization
01:10:31 __ ACES v REC 709 Example [1]
01:17:49 __ ACES v REC 709 Example [2]
01:19:18 __ ACES v REC 709 Example [5]
01:20:37 Spoiler for the next bootcamp
01:24:34 Thank you and ask Q!

Join Cinema 4D expert instructor Joe Herman for a comprehensive six-part webinar series that will show you how to use the world-class rigging tools in Cinema 4D. Follow Joe on Twitter & Instagram: @JoeHermanArtist

Episode 2: Point Weighting

- Explanation of Point weighting
- Binding a mesh to joints
- The Weight Tag
- The Weights Manager
- Painting weights
- Applying weights
- Normalization
- Using the Mirror Tool to mirror bones and weights
- Fan bones

Download project files and course outline: https://bit.ly/HOWMaxon_Files_Rigging

Rigging is a crucial skill to have in the field of computer animation, enabling you to animate fully articulated 3D characters, anthropomorphic forms, mechanical objects and more.

This series will start with the fundamentals and progress to accomplished rigging concepts, including point weighting, constraints, FK, IK and pose morphs. It will also cover other important topics such C-Motion, C4D’s powerful tool to generate cyclical motion, and the Pose Library, a critical tool for performing character animation.

Get comfortable with rigging in just 6 weeks! These 2-hour sessions are designed for artists with little to no experience in rigging and will be run inside of Cinema 4D R25, with sample project files and assets provided. Attendees are invited to follow along with the techniques shown throughout the session, however they are also recorded and available to re-watch in your own time.

00:00:00 Welcome
00:00:58 Topics, Extra bits!
00:02:11 Today’s topics
00:04:00 Housekeeping
00:07:02 Recap part 1
00:08:36 Edge-flow
00:11:41 __ Topology
00:13:40 __ Scan example
00:15:41 __ Re-topologies
00:18:30 Subdivision Surface [SDS]
00:22:54 Q How detailed for re-topologies
00:25:13 Q Keep SDS or convert it
00:26:50 Weighting
00:29:04 __ Icon into the GUI*
00:30:21 __ Joint Tool
00:32:13 __ Binding Automatically
00:34:58 __ Weight Manager
00:38:22 __ Normalization
00:39:44 Q Colors shading from joints
00:41:32 __ Binding manually
00:58:12 Fan Joint, Bone
01:06:55 Q Vertex Painting [01-30-53]
01:07:16 Q Fan - Constrain
01:13:38 Q Size of the Fan Joint
01:15:36 Q Intermediate rotation joints
01:18:18 Claw Rigging Symmetry
01:24:01 __ Mirror Tool [axis variations]
01:27:11 __ Naming Tool [$N]
01:30:53 __ Manual Weighting
01:37:02 __ Symmetry Weighting [naming R_ L_]
01:40:50 __ Symmetry Weight later [-to+ ;copy]
01:47:52 __ Adding User Data
01:50:40 __ XPresso
01:59:23 __ Adding IK
02:05:25 __ Preview to part 3 [hand over]
02:06:44 Q Muscle Object, Pose Morph option
02:11:54 Q Pole and Rotation
02:13:34 Joint move without mesh move
02:16:35 Readjusting Bind Position
02:17:10 Pose Morph Bulge
02:21:29 Next week [part 3]
02:27:03 Thanks and see you in part 3

*To remove icon: Command Manager, check the Edit Palettes, then double click on the icon that needs to be deleted.

Join Maxon Trainers Elly Wade, Lionel Vicidomini and Dustin Valkema as they dive into some exciting techniques using Redshift. Throughout this four-part series the team will breakdown interesting new ways to increase your Redshift rendering skills. From rendering particles and volumes, to building complex layered materials and even jumping into sub-surface scattering!

Creating and rendering fire, smoke or water is a difficult and challenging task. In this session Master Trainer Lionel Vicidomini will show you how to render volumes with Redshift, using Cinema 4D’s in-built tools as well as using the X-Particles plug-in from INSYDIUM.

Project Files: https://bit.ly/RaiseyourRedshiftGame

00:00:00 Welcome
00:00:39 Housekeeping
00:02:52 Files and Materials
00:04:26 Today’s Topic
00:05:05 Example overview
00:07:24 Sky Cloud Volume
00:07:32 __ Creating a base object
00:09:26 __ Volume, RS mat., light
00:11:35 __ RS Material, RS Render
00:14:21 __ Random Field, Voxel Size
00:18:16 __ Light adjustments
00:20:04 __ Rendering
00:20:32 __ Voxel math, Look development
00:26:10 __ Adding more objects
00:28:52 Q Cloud Animation
00:31:18 Q Cloud Color
00:34:10 Export VDB, Volume Object
00:38:18 __ RS Material, Cloner
00:39:08 __ Randomize Pos. Rot, Scale
00:40:55 Clouds along Spline
00:43:32 Q Which AOV for clouds
00:44:37 Q Creating god-rays with clouds
00:47:04 Q Animation in VDB
00:47:58 Q Collision and VDB
00:49:18 Q VDB and standard render
00:51:20 Water Simulation X-Particles
00:52:05 __ Scene set up, Helix, XP
00:55 45 __ xpFlowField, Spline, Curl
01:03:15 __ xpOpenVDBMesher
01:05:01 __ RS render via Vertex
01:06:27 __ RS Material, RS Dome Light, HDR
01:09:20 __ Water and Motion Blur in RS
01:13:33 Q Motion preview
01:15:05 Q Water and Thinking Particles
01:16:20 Q Motion Blur In Post
01:17:58 Q One or two materials
01:18:57 Q Fire in the project files
01:23:02 Thank you!
01:23:43 See you next week

Hashi and Seth recreate VFX from Movies and TV - all LIVE! This week, it’s Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness! Multiverse of Madness is also what our bosses call this show anyway, so it’s not much of a stretch.

In this Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz (@jonaspilz3d) shows how to use the Phong Break Selection tool in Cinema 4D. You will learn how to set it up to select planar surfaces, round holes in objects as well as all corner edges with a single click.

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

Recorded in Cinema 4D R25.

Join us for another exciting #AskTheTrainer session on Thursday 10th March 2022 at 8am Pacific, as Cinema 4D Master Trainers Noseman and Jonas Pilz are going to talk about MoGraph Effectors in depth. You will learn unexpected techniques and combinations that will bring your MoGraph knowledge to the next level.

00:00:00 Waiting Loop
00:01:13 Welcome
00:03:16 Today’s Topic
00:04:19 Housekeeping
00:05:05 Effectors quick intro
00:06:00 __ Plain Effector
00:07:30 __ Parameters
00:08:33 __ Transform Space
00:10:40 Quick Intro to some Effectors
00:10:41 Delay Effector
00:12:09 Formula Effector
00:14:31 Inheritance Effector
00:16:59 Python Effector
00:17:36 Random Effector
00:20:59 ReEffector
00:23:18 Shader Effector
00:24:19 Spline Effector
00:25:06 Step Effector
00:25:56 Target Effector
00:26:49 Time Effector
00:27:30 Volume Effector
00:27:59 Q Avoid overlaps or collisions
00:29:40 Formula Effector in depth
00:32:10 __ Formula overview
00:33:10 __ Modulo function
00:35:40 __ Selective use [ID]
00:37:20 __Transform Space Effector
00:39:48 Sphere package
00:40:14 __ Random Effector
00:40:57 __ Push Apart Effector
00:44:14 Effector as Deformers
00:49:00 Formula u and v
00:52:27 Push Apart Effector [radius]
00:56:14 Modula in Selections
00:57:28 Voronoi Fracture, Target Effector
00:59:28 __ ReEffector to the rescue
01:01:19 Q Distribution on a Spline
01:06:18 Time Offset Animation Fixed, Loop
01:08:28 __ Offset via Field
01:09:53 __ Chair Example, Linear Field
01:10:30 __ Frame max value, Strength Slider
01:12:47 Housekeeping
01:14:12 Thanks and see you next time

Hands-on with Maxon: Intro to Rigging - Part 1 (of 6)

Join Cinema 4D expert instructor Joe Herman for a comprehensive six-part webinar series that will show you how to use the world-class rigging tools in Cinema 4D.

- What rigging is and why you need it
- Scope of the course
- What are joints?
- Making Joints and joint hierarchies
- Rigging a mechanical model (swivel lamp) without point weighting
- Aligning joints
- Applying parent constraints to bones
- Introduction to forward and inverse kinematics (IK and FK)

Download project files and course outline: https://bit.ly/HOWMaxon_Files_Rigging

Rigging is a crucial skill to have in the field of computer animation, enabling you to animate fully articulated 3D characters, anthropomorphic forms, mechanical objects and more.

This series will start with the fundamentals and progress to accomplished rigging concepts, including point weighting, constraints, FK, IK and pose morphs. It will also cover other important topics such C-Motion, C4D’s powerful tool to generate cyclical motion, and the Pose Library, a critical tool for performing character animation.

Get comfortable with rigging in just 6 weeks! These 2-hour sessions are designed for artists with little to no experience in rigging and will be run inside of Cinema 4D R25, with sample project files and assets provided. Attendees are invited to follow along with the techniques shown throughout the session, however they are also recorded and available to re-watch in your own time.

00:00:00 Welcome
00:03:14 Today’s Topic
00:07:23 Introduction
00:08:50 Joint Tool
00:11:10 __ Hierarchy
00:14:02 __ Axis direction
00:15:25 __ Adding and branching
00:19:34 Symmetrical setup
00:20:15 __ Symmetry Object
00:21:42 Create and Adjust
00:22:33 Q No Root Null
00:23:51 Q Hot keys up/down hierarchy
00:24:26 Q Joining Symmetry
00:26:18 Mechanical – Forward Kinematic [FK]
00:28:58 __ Constructing the Rig
00:31:10 __ Naming the Joints
00:33:44 __ Bone Display, Size
00:37:15 __ What means Forward Kinematic
00:40:10 __ Adding functionality, Base
00:50:08 __ Recap
00:51:51 __ Front tilt, Base
00:54:26 __ Adding Master Controller
00:55:43 Inverse Kinematic, lamp [IK]
00:58:58 __ IK set up
01:01:51 __ Extending with an FK “tool”
01:02:55 __ Adding a Goal
01:03:30 __ Adding a Pole Vector
01:06:01 __ Follow a Locomotive Wheel
01:09:31 Q Weighting Vertices
01:11:06 Q IK always on the first joint
01:13:42 Q Rigging straight or bend
01:16:47 Q Preventing intersections
01:19:30 Adding IK to the Lamp
01:23:41 __ Goal/Pole in/outside the rig
01:25:53 Constraints Tags
01:27:24 __ Transform
01:30:08 Hand off to an Animateur [TD]
01:36:01 __ Creating Controllers
01:45:47 Animate the lamp rig
01:48:02 __ Ball Dynamic
01:49:10 __ Freeze and reset
01:51:43 __ Set keyframes and poses
01:54:39 Recap
01:55:35 Q Rigging Animals
01:59:06 Q Character Object
02:02:32 Next Episode
02:04:49 Thanks and good bye

Join Maxon Trainers Elly Wade, Lionel Vicidomini and Dustin Valkema as they dive into some exciting techniques using Redshift. Throughout this four-part series the team will breakdown interesting new ways to increase your Redshift rendering skills. From rendering particles and volumes, to building complex layered materials and even jumping into sub-surface scattering!

In this session Master Trainer Lionel Vicidomini will show you the many ways to render particles with Redshift, using the standard particles in Cinema 4D as well as X-Particles from INSYDIUM. But what would be particles without trails? Tracing the path of the particles, you will learn how to achieve beautiful results using Redshift, recreating some iconic looks.

Project Files: https://bit.ly/RaiseyourRedshiftGame

00:00:00 Welcome
00:00:43 Series Overview
00:01:15 Housekeeping
00:03:41 Files
00:04:10 Today’s Topic
00:05:35 Head X-Particles, RS3D
00:06:35 __ Head Preparation
00:09:49 __ X-Particles
00:12:22 __ xpTrail, XpTurbulence
00:15:26 __ Render Splines, RS
00:17:22 __ RS Material [Spline]
00:22:20 __ Spline, adjustments
00:27:17 __ Controll Color [Vertex]
00:30:36 __ xpColor [Falloff, Fields]
00:33:56 Q Move particles rnd along edges
00:36:00 __ Lifetime Trail Modifier
00:43:00 __ Rs Material, Light, Scene
00:48:43 Q Tell us about render-times
00:50:35 __ Spot light, Environment
00:53:27 __ Bokeh [DOF]
00:57:54 Q Variations of heights
00:59:40 Q Render Settings on GI
01:00:57 Q Speed up Geometry calculations
01:02:45 Head native Cinema 4D
01:03:28 __ Matrix, Thinking Particles
01:04:18 __ Field Force, Vector, Random
01:07:10 __ XPresso
01:09:13 __ MG Tracer
01:10:35 __ RS Object
01:14:21 Thank you, see you next week.

This week, Hashi and Seth add dinosaurs to Mission Impossible. Join for roto, paint outs, color matching, and other THRILLING visual effects tasks that other tutorials are too chicken to show.

In this Quick Tip, Jonas Pilz shows how to reset the coordinates of objects in Cinema 4D. You will also learn how to adjust the default transformation of an object as well as how to reset the transformation in world space when an object is part of a hierarchy.

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

Recorded in Cinema 4D R25.