Self Proximal Effect
Tips & Tricks, Textures, Procedural – by: base80
October 7th, 2007
This trick comes from George Drakakis. It is a nice way to render your mesh and has endless possibilities.
Continue readingTips & Tricks, Textures, Procedural – by: base80
October 7th, 2007
This trick comes from George Drakakis. It is a nice way to render your mesh and has endless possibilities.
Continue reading →Work in Progress, Tips & Tricks, Textures, PhotoMatch V.2, Particle (classic) – by: base80
October 18th, 2007
This a double tutorial. It is about camera matching and about classic particles.
We will have a look at how to use a picture to make a movie, a variation on a “Ken Burns Effect”.
The theme of the tutorial is the famous Sony Bavia ad.
See the whole movie (.mov 24mb) HERE
Continue reading →Particle (classic), PyroCluster – by: base80
October 31st, 2007
Well this is something new for me, PyroCluster tutorials. I’ve noticed there are not many tutorials on PyroCluster online, so well I think I can do some.
This tutorial covers the basic setup to see a puff. Like this:
Continue reading →Hair, Particle (classic) – by: base80
October 31st, 2007
I am having a lot of fun combining several techniques in Cinema4d. This time I combine Hair and particles.
The result in this case is some kind of fireworks.
MoGraph – by: base80
October 31st, 2007
Wow, I am so happy with this trick. The Trailing Taillights at last. For ages I have been looking for a solution for animating this trailing lights effect and now I found it. This solution is 100% automatic and stretches according to the speed of the object.
Continue reading →MoGraph – by: base80
November 3rd, 2007
This is the third method for connecting cables. This time I am using the Tracer object of Mograph.
This is by far the easiest method and the fastest one too.
Xpresso, Tips & Tricks, Textures, Procedural – by: base80
December 15th, 2007
It’s the time of the year to do another Blinking Lights setup. I made this one for an online client and I will explain how its done.
Continue reading →Tips & Tricks – by: base80
January 23rd, 2008
There are some things you never pay attention to, this time it is the “Remote” post effect.
The manual says that “Remote” will automatically launch an application at the end of a rendering and pass the rendered image to it.
So here is what I did.
Continue reading →Xpresso, Tips & Tricks – by: base80
April 24th, 2008
Here is a little workflow tip that saves time and lets you sleep while rendering a batch of images.
Lets say you have a scene with multiple cameras and you want to render them all without selecting every camera manually.
Procedural, Hair, MoGraph – by: base80
July 22nd, 2008
Sorry for the long absence… But here is a new tutorial about Cinema4d.
This time of year we have to mow the lawn. Maxon has a great tutorial about that, but I wanted to go a bit further.
This setup mows the grass with a dynamic spline. So there is no pre-determined path.
We’ll be using Hair and Mograph’s Tracer to accomplish the following effect.