Posted purely for historical accuracy. It’s not the most useful of the CS Tools, but you may find a reason for it? Campfires? Candles? Disco Party? What are your ideas?
If you make something cool with Flicker, please post it in the comments will ya?
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It might be cool for something like sparkles from a cut wire or anything like that.
You could use it for like light effects in a pool. Looked very pool-ish when you changed the colors to blue.
Thank you for the lessons Nick !!!!!!!!
You can use it to smash open a walnut. Ooga Booga.
The second i saw the lights i thought of the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” where the little “ships” is flying over the road.
I don’t have time to do more than this right now, so sorry about the bad tex and rendering. Maybe someone can make something better.
Thank you Nick for all your great tut’s!
Cheers Jakob.
http://vimeo.com/9889094
You could use it for fireflies or something alike.
One could make a crimescene, indoors, then through the window comes the flickering of lights from police and ambulance?
or you can use it for dust particles like this:
http://yfrog.com/bcbild17p
it’s just a quick test, so the lighning (of the particles) isn’t perfect yet.
@Nick: Keep it up man! I’ve learned a lot in the last year!
Greetz Roger
Have a really crazy idea! Will work on it after this project I’m on.
Thanks! Been installing and checking CS Tools, real useful!!!
Thanks again!
I put “flicker” inside the ice cube from the tutorial just to see what would happen. I changed the colors to shades of blue. It turned out pretty interesting.
http://www.vimeo.com/9899062
Simon, this one is for you. I animated the ice material’s displacement/noise and put the “flicker” below the surface to make a pool. Very rough, but you get the point.
http://www.vimeo.com/9901214
hi guys, i have a question, it’s a bit off topic though..
in cinema 4D, i have an animated element, i can loop it, using the command “Functions” – “Track After” – “Repeat” , now, how can i “bake” this animation, so that i can change and randomize the keys (break the curve to create a more natural loop)
thanks!
andrea
http://yfrog.com/4elooppj
got it ! sorry..it was probably just a bug..like..i needed to restart the application!
now its working !
just select the object in the timeline and click Bake Objects
If you export in after effect with an external compositing tag and applies particular to lights. I think you get something nice.
Hi Nick!
I was just watching one of your old Photoshop tutorials in which you mentioned something about ’8bit vs 16bit’… Could you elaborate on that? Basically: pros and cons of 16bit…!?
Thx!
I decided to play around with the lovely randomness of this tool and have a Mograph tracer attached to it. Both of these are new to me so I just had some fun with it and the result ended up looked pretty sweet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qZzx-KjT6w
that’s the best one yet!
agreed it’s beautiful
good idea Chris !!
Very cool idea and a great sketch too!
farout the best I have seen here.
I was going to attempt the same thing, but I had my splines reversed and this is what happened, I guess random motion would have worked but I thought it looked sexy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfIdtGLEHQg
hi again man i like your tutorials in special thinks bevel tutorial: year brazilian have a power!
so i look the tutorial and i look some things in video “hdri lighting kit” hwere i download that? please help us!
The Lighting Kit should be out in March sometime. Very soon, I hope.
i used the Flicker in onjunction with some AE CC lens distorters.Te resul i getting interesting
http://www.vimeo.com/9910969
i meant conjunction
Henk – the video is private…
oops, forgot..thanks oscar
Hey,
what do you think of the ‘house of the year’ titles on http://www.whitenoisestudios.com/work/motiongraphics
? It’s a show running on the BBC in northern Ireland at the minute.
its cool..but the camera animation is so so..
it moves too fast and those pannings made me sick
Overall I like the work in it, I think that you should cut it in half and snap it up. Like Andrea said, those pan across moves could be toned down. Speed up some of the animations, Re-render the logo animation you have at the end and sprinkle a teaser of it through out. Just my 2 cents.
Thanks for the tips Nick.
I know you did a tut on the installation of CSTools. Could you refresh the same for 11.5? That one is a bit tricky. Thanks
I liked the idea to use flicker for fireflies, so I took 30 minutes to have a go….
http://www.vimeo.com/9934989
What about using it to add some shine to your bevels? Or use it for a blair witch lights chasing you through a forest animation…
Ohhhh, I like the bevel idea…
I might try the bevel idea for this project i’m working on right now… we’ll see…
happy you like the idea.
Off topic but how do I add my photo to your site here?
with Gravatar.com I think. I’m still struggling to get it to work propperly.. Let’s see if it works with this comment!
Damn, mine isn’t working either.
Obviously yours (and mine) works now!! I’ve been having lots of confusion with it, but after setting the rating of the icon (changing it to.. PG or G or whatever) it just appeared.. Confusing. Still have problems at other sites though..
WHAT A USELESS PLUGIN!! A WASTE OF TIME!
Tell me about it…
Hey Nick, I have Just used the Flicker on this 3D animation for Kaplan as an ‘inspiration plasma sphere’.
I also used a lot of other CS tools such Sine Null (of the sphere bobbing up and down), Spring Null (for the text) and MoCam (for the some of the camera shots) Love ‘em!
Website link – http://bit.ly/aA58oc
Vimeo link – http://www.vimeo.com/9758079
Cheers,
Matt
Hey Matt, I like the Global part where you see the world as a whole, some other parts could be brighter like that scene (less shadowy I guess)
Oh, and great animation!
Thanks Hein
Hey Nick,
I noticed in this tutorial that you have some additional icons on the left side of your C4D. Would you mind sharing with us what they are, what they do, and where you got ‘em?
Thanks,
J
I used it on a disco ball, I didn’t want to use a light caustic on it and have the light coming out off the ball instead.
Last piece of the short reel : http://www.vimeo.com/7859352
This is great. thanks for the tutorials Gorilla.
Thanks, Flip!
Hey Nick,
something for you and the community to ponder on for these shot breakdowns…
Quite curious how this could emulated in C4D
1) Water droplets
2) Ground break into a vortex
http://vimeo.com/8235579
Great work! I’ve always wanted to learn Houdini. How’s the learning curve there?
I wish it was mine
I came across this on a forum and thought i’d post it here for any feedback.
Never really touched the software but heard the hype when matrix came out.
I think for this perhaps REAL FLOW may be needed on water dynamics then imported back into C4D for further work.
Im thinking DIY Flash Frames, Ambient lights for more organic fluid type simulations to just add that extra bit of surrealness.
Im using the CS_tool Cluster.. im replaced the figures with different items and now they wont render in the picture viewer.. any reason why this might be happing?
I don’t think it is that stupid.
It can be a time saving tool no?
what about:
* lightning flashes at night.
* going medieval on it with torches etc.
* old cinema projector effect dash retro stuff
just thinkin’ out loud
great job gorilla!
downloading your lighting toolz, 1,4 gig’s a big one
I used CS Flicker to create a flickering candle’s lighting in a project a few years back. It ended up winning a Bronze Telly. So, it’s got good uses.
Here’s a little test I did that incorporated flicker, If you understand expresso, this has the potential to be an incredibly useful tool, the only problem being that to make it REALLY useful, you basically have to rewire the plug-in to suit your needs, but it’s a great starting point and can save considerable work with what is already created in the xpresso tag.
http://www.vimeo.com/11094533
Thanks for your time going through all of the CS-tools, this one included! Randomness is not to laugh away
Thanks for watching, Thomas!
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Hey! This tool is actually very good. I wish I’d found it before for a inside club scene I made for a client a couple months ago where I had to animate all the lights by myself. Tedious!
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I’d really need the flickering of this tool but what makes it useless for me atm is that you dont have the usual light settings like visible light. Or maybe its just my inexperience and the solution is obvious.
Any ideas Nick?