Happy Holidays From Greyscalegorilla

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Everyone! I made this video card especially for you to say thanks for being a part of the Greyscalegorilla community. I really appreciate every one of you who come watch tutorials, write comments, and hang out here on this little site of mine. This place wouldn’t be what it is without you!

A HUGE thanks to all of you who have helped Greyscalegorilla over this last year. It’s been a fun one. Happy holidays to all of you. Here is to another great year of learning and fun!

Cheers,
Nick

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  1. Jean-Paul says:

    Happy Holidays to you all :)

  2. Merry Christmas to you to Nick! Let’s create more beautiful animations in 2011!

    Kind regards,

    Joris van Nijnatten

  3. MarcyVF says:

    MARVIN GAYE!? YAY

    Awesome stuff! The snow and the gloss/glow/lught stuff was awesome. After effects?
    And how did you make that spline material with the white helix line things?

  4. This is looking mighty slick, Nick! And this isn’t a small site anymore. Merry Christmas, folks!

  5. Magic says:

    happy hollidays to you and everyone elso too!

  6. MarcyVF says:

    Yeah Merry Christmas Nick, dudes & dudettes!

  7. NoSuchThing says:

    Have a good one dude!

  8. shane says:

    Hi Nick,

    Thanks for all your tutorials this year. I look forward to more from GSG in 2011.

    I was working on my own Merry Christmas video card, below.

    http://www.youtube.com/designinch#p/a/u/0/XyoAwYqkhNA

  9. M.Puvan says:

    Happy holidays Nick & to everyone….and merry christmas….Enjoy ;)

  10. Chad says:

    Merry Christmas Nick! Thanks for all you do!

  11. Blooner says:

    Merry Christmas and a happy new year all!

  12. casperfc says:

    Merry xmas to all

    You are an inspiration to us all, Nick. And a funny guy to boot.

  13. Jim Musana says:

    Merry Xmas & a happy new year to you too mate! Looking forward to an awesome 2011!

  14. iMario says:

    Happy Holidays Nick, and thanks a lot to you!

  15. yappzai says:

    NICE!!! Merry Christmas to you too!!

  16. Ronny says:

    Thanks Nick! Happy holidays to you too!

    And I think a ‘thank you very much’ might just be in place here: Thanks for sharing all these tips and tricks and for investing so much of your time into helping others and doing this for free!

    I mean: there are a lot of sites out there that want people to pay for montlhy/yearly subscriptions and then deliver not as much tutorials as you, and way less educational.
    I can’t thank you enough for being so generous!

    You rock, man! Merry christmas!

  17. teto strikes back says:

    Merry Xmas Nick!!!! (tutorial pleaseeee!! :¬P)

  18. J.Sabbadini says:

    Merry xmas to you Nick and for all the GSG fans!
    :)

  19. yoDiii says:

    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year :)

  20. ali says:

    Merry Christmas to you all.. :)

  21. Ashcat says:

    ?:-3 merry Christmas

  22. blink creations says:

    Thanks Nick for all you do! I look forward to seeing the tutorial for this video!! ITS A MUST! ;)

  23. Niko says:

    Thanks nick !!
    Happy holidays to you and Merry christmas from France !!!

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  25. Freed says:

    nice likin it man

  26. S3B says:

    Merry christmas from France !!!!!!!!! and thanks for everything !

  27. JohnBon says:

    Thanks for the sweet tutorials

  28. Danielw says:

    “Glædelig jul” as we say i denmark :)

    And thx for making great products and tutorials :)

  29. Will says:

    Do i smell a new tutorial? :P

  30. substrata says:

    This has been a really good year for all of us for learning so much with your tutorials.
    You have a good Christmas and enjoy with your family and friends.

  31. Marcus says:

    Rightback at Ya! :)

  32. javier says:

    FELIZ NAVIDAD Y PROSPERO AÑO NUEVO NICK

  33. asymptoteell says:

    Happy New Year, Nick. Looking forward to next year’s tuts. Thanks for making them all free. They are honestly the best out there. Good luck.

  34. SteveTeeps says:

    Cheers for the vid Nick! Happy Holidays!

  35. león says:

    Yea!!! happy holidays & thanks so much Nick

  36. nezjoe says:

    Happy Holidays! Nick!!!

  37. stevie says:

    Happy Holidays and a good year Nick!

  38. Chris192 says:

    Same to you Nick, Same to you. :P

  39. karri says:

    Don’t stop what you’re doing, Nick!

    Thanks for all the tuts over the years and happy holidays!

  40. Tom Skelton says:

    Merry Christmas dude!

  41. THANX!

    YOU TOO!! AND OF COURSE EVERYONE ELSE TOO!

    CHEERSS

  42. MarcelMedia says:

    Happy holidays Nick….Thanks for the FREE tutorials

  43. Merry Christmas, Nick! I appreciate all of your tutorials and inspiration. My renders have improved 1000% this year thanks to you.

  44. Junior says:

    Merry Christmas and a big 2011. May everyone become way better VFX artists than they were in 2010.

  45. dj Lukasz says:

    Merry Christmas Nick!! It’s been an amazing 2010 and I can’t wait for 2011!

  46. Adam Schmisek says:

    Merry Christmas! Thanks for creating such a killer light kit! I have a new found love for cinema because of you and your tutorials. Can’t wait for all the great stuff in 2011!
    Cheers!

  47. Thanks Nick !
    And here is my card !
    (in french but it mean almost the same as you, lol !)

    http://vimeo.com/18014504

  48. Bruno says:

    plz tell us what studio set and defenitions you used!

    or, even better, make a tut from it!

    Happy Holidays!

  49. Matt says:

    Best wishes to you too !
    Funny to see how you made the ‘happy’; I tried to make an exact copy of your result a couple months ago but with another word :p
    I never managed to get the material properly twisted, http://img692.imageshack.us/i/howto.jpg/ .
    Could you tell me how you achieved that ?

    Greetings !

  50. AKEman says:

    Merry Christams to you Nick and all of your fans!

    Just wanted to tell you that I switched from PC to Mac mainly because of your great advertising and cinebench records and stuff like that… Yeah and also because as an entrepreneur I was able to lease it :)

    I’ve used my Mac Pro (8 core 32 Gb RAM) for couple of days now and I just love the OS and the raw computer power! You rock! Thanks for lobbying!

  51. ZaiZ says:

    Joyeux Noël et bonne année !!
    All best for all of you !

  52. Classicgamer says:

    Merry Chrimbo to all, and a huge big big thanks to Nick.

    Loved all these tutorials this year and now with the Light Kit & HDRI Studio it’s even better.

    All the best for Christmas & a happy & healthy new year & a prosperous 2011!!!!

  53. Dani says:

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you!! thanks a lot Nick, and thanks to everybody, ’cause this community really rocks :) !!

  54. Ro says:

    merry christmas nick!

  55. Niklas_75 says:

    Merry Christmas Nick! Thanks! :-)

  56. Michael says:

    Merry Christmas everyone! Thanks for the guidance here at GSG. See you in 2011!

  57. Viden says:

    Joyeux Noël et bonne année,
    Merry christmas and happy new year of all folks.
    ?????? ?????? ? ??????? ???? ??????

  58. Bjørnar says:

    Merry christmas!

  59. Freejo says:

    Merry Christmas to you too.

  60. Scott Melchionda says:

    Happy Holidays to you too Nick! I’ve really stepped up my C4D game since I started visiting GSG, thanks for all that you do!

  61. tonyrome says:

    Happy Holidays Gorilla! keep it real dawg!

  62. Zeb says:

    Happy holiday to you Nick, our favorite gorilla ;-) Have a rest and stay inspired !

  63. Cris says:

    Right back at you Nick!
    Happy “Gorilla” holidays all the way from Sweden!

  64. Fabrice Noel says:

    Happy Holidays Nick,
    thanks for tutorials !

  65. tchsam1 says:

    “Joyeux Noel & BONNE ANNEE 2011″To Nick ,Alexia and Every one Supporting The Gorilla!!!!! Peace

  66. Merry Christmas Mr Gorilla… cheers for sharing your mograph wisdom with all of us!!

  67. happy holidays to u too

  68. James Wicks says:

    Merry Christmas to you, Nick.
    Thank you for all you do to help us.

    Best,
    J

  69. Thomas says:

    Happy holdidays to you and everyone else here at GSG too! Enjoy the season with family and friends, and accumulate strength for next year’s tasks :)

    Thanks for all efforts, products and presentations of 2010; you’re awesome.

    God jul! from Norway
    ~Thomas

  70. Nelson says:

    I discover your site this year and visit it every week. Keep up the great work Nick, really appreciate the time & effort you put on it. Feliz Navidad!!!
    …Im gonna send you some hot & shiny caribbean weather via mail. :)

  71. alfath says:

    happy holiday nick…

  72. Ali Karim says:

    Merry Christmas To you To, Dude i was trying to make a video before you but i kinda over complicated it, that was great, you used some image based lighting on the happy??

    happy holidays

  73. Merry christmas Nick!

    It was an really nice year, learned a lot from you, also the products you made are very helpfull. SO HUGE respect, you deserve some hot chocolate, and a beer!

    You’re more then awesome.

    Thanks.

  74. ryanroehl says:

    Merry Christmas, thanks for helping me get a job!

  75. Merry Christmas and Flairy New Year Nick….Thank you for all your efford…and best wishes for 2011……Happy Holidays to everyone.

  76. Aditya says:

    Happy holidays Nick!

  77. Thomas says:

    Here’s a gift to all of you who hasn’t gotten it already; a tip I just got myself a few minutes ago.

    1. Make the Correction Object [under Deformers] a child of a primitive – e.g. a Sphere or Box
    2. Select the Correction Object
    3. Use Polygon, Edge or Point tool
    4. Voila! Edit as you please, but now you have the opportunity to go back to the primitive and work its parametric values.

    Great for those who enjoy working non-destructively.

    For all those who knew already this might be obvious, but for us who didn’t: I find this to be a great gift – almost worthy of a 5 sec submission on it’s own :)

    Have an even happier holdiday!

  78. ryanroehl says:

    If any one wants to make fancy snow flakes.. two cogwheels in a sweep nurb. A little render intensive though.

  79. Japes says:

    Happy holidays Nick! Thanks for the wonderful year of teaching us on Making cool shit and getting inspired not just on cinema4d but also in the craft of motion design and art!

  80. Trox says:

    NIck Happy Holidays and to the rest of The GSG community… thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge to the world :)

  81. KissThemAll says:

    Thanks Nick=)

  82. gemy26 says:

    Merry Christmas

  83. Line says:

    Merry christmas!! :) Thank you so much for all the great tutorials this year! They have helped me to get a new and exciting job!

  84. Steve says:

    Nick, enjoy the holidays, hope it gives you inspiration for a lot of tutorials in 2011. Gave it a try myself result at: http://vimeo.com/18041399. It’s in flemish (dutch) because it’s for friends and family, but my wishes go to all of you.

  85. BHMTH says:

    Best wishes to you Nick and to all the community around the Gorilla. It was my first (half) year with Cinema 4D and thanks to you all it’s been a great one.

    Thanks again for all the nice tuts and the great products you released along this year.

  86. Steve says:

    Merry Christmas, loving the light kit pro and the blog is always a great source of inspiration. (Tutorial on how to do the ‘happy’ type ;)

    Enjoy the Hols

  87. imaginario says:

    Merry Christmas Nick and thanks for your insight about 3d and the creative process.
    Keep on animating
    Cheers from Portugal

  88. Peedy says:

    HEY NICK!
    this is the character rigging I was talking about:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCyLTMHPny0&hd=1

  89. Pipo says:

    Thank you Nick, for your all-year gifts you give us ;)

  90. Wstlone says:

    Merci pour tout Nick!
    Bonnes fêtes de fin d’année à tous.
    Greetings from France

  91. Jeff Osborne says:

    Merry Christmas and a happy new year from London Nick.

    God Bless

    Jeff

  92. Seinfeld says:

    Merry Christmas to you Nick.

    And Merry Christmas to every1 else aswell :D .

  93. Billy J says:

    Merry Christmast Nick, and a wonderfully motion graphiced New Year!

  94. _Anibal C. says:

    Merry Christmas people! lot of work for the next year!
    Feliz Navidad a todos! …and thanks so much for the daily inspiration Nick.

  95. _Anibal C. says:

    Merry Christmas people! lot of work for the next year!
    Feliz Navidad a todos! …and thanks so much for the daily inspiration Nick!

  96. Nice render nick, see my Christmas Design : http://flic.kr/p/91Fg1z MADE IN CINEMA !

    UN SALUDO DESDE CHILE :)

    ANDAURSTUDIOS-

  97. Drunkey says:

    Feliz Navidad!!! Felicidades Gorilla tu sitio esta muy muy bueno!!! Gracias a ti por los tutos y que te la pases bien en estas fehcas con tu familia!!! Saludos desde Chiapas, México…

  98. Jørn says:

    Merry Christmas or as they say in Germany “Frohe Weihnachten” Nik!
    I really enjoy your tuts. Can’t wait for a new one. You have made me look into C4D more in the time I have known your site than in the whole time befor (R9)! Thank you again for those interesting, wellmade, & inspiering tutorials!

  99. Klas says:

    Thanks for a great website and a super year!
    God Jul och Gott Nytt År!

    //Klas

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