Monthly Archives: March 2011

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How to Optimize Your Scene to Render Faster In Cinema 4D

An expensive new computer may make your renders 2-8X faster. But learn how to optimize your scene, and it can speed up your renders 10-100X. In this video, I show you some ways to optimize your scene in Cinema 4D … Continue reading →

March 31, 2011 and filed in Cinema 4D, Cinema 4D 12, Tutorials, Video
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Productivity and Space Camp: My Interview with Austinights

The guys at Austinights did an excellent job in letting me gab on about a bunch of crazy stuff while I was in SXSW. Listen to the interview here.

March 29, 2011 and filed in Interview, My Work, Speaking
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How to Make The AT&T End Tag Logo in Cinema 4D and After Effects Part 2

In part 2 we finish animating and composite the scene in After Effects using Lens Care, Curves, and Knoll Light Factory. We also do some basic parenting to try and fix a wonky camera move. Find out why it didn’t … Continue reading →

March 28, 2011 and filed in After Effects, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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How to Make The AT&T End Tag Logo in Cinema 4D Part 1

In this tutorial I show you how to make the new end-tag from the most recent AT&T commercials by using the Displacement Deformer, cloners, and sweep nurbs. In part 2 of this tut, we will head into After Effects and … Continue reading →

March 24, 2011 and filed in Cinema 4D, Cinema 4D 12, Tutorials, Video
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GSG Live Cast: Learning how to Copy and other ways to Play Guitar

Links Mentioned Mograph.net Thread “Taking It To Far” Click That Button nickvegas.tv

March 23, 2011 and filed in GSG Live
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AT&T End-Tag Tutorial Sneak Peek

New tutorial coming soon based on the excelent new AT&T work from Prologue (site)

March 21, 2011 and filed in Cinema 4D, Tutorials
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How to make A Dynamic Rope in Cinema 4D using Spline Dynamics, Cloth, or Soft-body Tags

In this tutorial, Simon shows you how to create dynamic dangling ropes in Cinema 4D using spline dynamics, cloth, and soft-body tags. Stay tuned for more tutorials from Simon. I love how he simple he makes more advanced tricks like … Continue reading →

March 14, 2011 and filed in Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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Help Japan

See the full post and more ways you can help at Signalnoise.com

March 12, 2011 and filed in News
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How to Use Thinking Particles in Cinema 4D Part 4 5 and 6

Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Watch Parts 1 2 and 3 About Chris Schmidt Chris Schmidt is a self taught Cinema4D user since version 6 in 2001. After teaching C4D for 4 years at Prairie State College and creating … Continue reading →

March 11, 2011 and filed in Chris Schmidt, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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How to Use Thinking Particles in Cinema 4D Part 1 2 and 3

In this series of tutorials, Chris Schmidt shows you how to set-up and use thinking particles for Cinema 4D. Thinking Particles is a powerful particle system inside of Cinema 4D. However, it seems not to be used as much as … Continue reading →

March 10, 2011 and filed in Chris Schmidt, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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De-sync Expressions Tutorial by Sebastian

In this short tutorial, Sebastian Bap shows you how he made the follow arrow effect from his popular animation, “Make it better” using After Effects and Expressions. Make It Better Animation (Example) You can see more of Sebastian’s work at … Continue reading →

March 7, 2011 and filed in After Effects, Tutorials, Video
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Denver and SXSW Meet-Up

As you may know, i’m in the middle of a road trip out west. But, in-between days of skiing and driving across the country, I’ll be hosting a few Greyscalegorilla meet-ups. I would love it if you could stop by … Continue reading →

March 5, 2011 and filed in News
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Introducing the GSG Free Cinema 4D Model Pack

So happy to announce the first version of the GSG Free Cinema 4D Model Pack. It’s a collection of models submitted by the GSG community that are copyright free and ready to be used in your project. I hope to … Continue reading →

March 3, 2011 and filed in Cinema 4D 12, Downloads, News
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Particles, Tracer, Xpresso. Oh My! Simon From Man Vs Machine is Making Tutorials

My good buddy Simon is also doing some excellent advanced Cinema 4D tutorials in between doing killer work for one of my favorite studios, Man Vs Machine. In his words… “Just interesting ideas that i come across when i try … Continue reading →

March 2, 2011 and filed in Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video