In part 2 of this tutorial we head in to After Effects to composite all the separate camera angles we rendered from Cinema 4D. We use pre-comps to set up the scenes and edit them together in another comp. Then, we do a final color correct and add motion blur to finish up the animation.
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HEY! First comment! I need to watch it still lol
cannot wait!
Hey There Nick… Awesome Part… But can anybody tell me what is the original font that is used to the adobe spot? please tell me guys… Thanks! More power Gorilla! and congratulations for being a married Gorilla!
Thanks for this second part nice, i am Second
Hey Nick! Thanx 4 this great tut again! Can you tell me where you got this cool blubby sound
If you want free sounds for your projects, something usefull is http://soundjax.com/
try it
Very nice again Nick!
Thanks for the tutorials as always, I appreciate it and also pick up a trick or two… fyi,( alt [ and alt ] )are great for trimming layers to edit in AE… also, instead of ( shift command / ) try ( command M ) to render comps
This is great Nick and very useful,
But one thing I would like to comment on is that the original had eyeball colour variations, How would this be achieved in Cinema 4D as I’ve tried using the colour shader effector to no avail.
I would do that by using different particles for each color. Just add more particles below the Emitter with different shaders.
Hey nick! just a quick question. What is this RSMB? looks awesome and WAY better than CC ForceMB. Is it free?
thanks a lot for another excellent tutorial!
Not free but it’s way worth the price. Here is some more info. http://www.revisionfx.com/products/rsmb/
Hey Nick Do you tell me your Mac’s Specs..
hey nick. i think you could have used abit of DOF here, which brings alot of credibility into the original spot. i also would recommend to use as less curves and cc layers a possible as it cranks up bending and infoloss. one way to do so would be a precomp with the CC layers which you then can drag into any comp and turn on continuous rasterisation. so for overall colour adjustments you just have to jump back into the cc precomp. peace!!
also, an edit function for the comment would be nice to get rid of my own spelling errors!! ; )
all the time i was wondering how did you do fade out at the end, and at the end you tell me that you will explain this in future
fade-out is all AE made? punching blacks first and then overall exposure down? btw. great tut!
there are several ways to do it, one is make use of the object buffer for the “5″, then in AE use luma matte to isolate the “5″ and fade it out or whatever you want to do with it
Hey Nick, you can use the Stage object from the Objects/Scene menu to switch cameras in the same scene. Once you’ve added a Stage object, click on the attributes manger and drag you camera to the camera field and add a keyframe.
Yep I too was gonna mention the
Stage Object… even made a little test render to show how it comes out.
This was 1 project file and 1 movie file rendered, with multipass and I object buffers.
It ends up being 1 file (which can limit your flexibility) but you can import the cameras in an AEC file. if you want to play with bkgs and particles or add external compositing tags for later AE use.
http://vimeo.com/26810328
I’m sure Nick is getting tired of hearing the Stage tag. Although it is pretty convenient, the problem I have is that you can’t go back n forth on the time line. Which means you can’t overlap. Unless there’s something I’m missing. (Probably) Nick was onto it in the first tutorial and someone confirmed it in the comments. Making different Render Settings presets for each camera allows you to Render all angles from just one file. Every camera angel gets it’s own Render setting preset. Then add them to the render que. Thanks again Nick for all you do.
I dont understand what you mean by this.. if your talking overlap on the cameras you can just adjust when you “take” the next camera. and render out those new frames (assuming you use a sequence rather than a single video file.) you can always just go back a render out the frames you need, either way works. At least with one sequence render you don’t have to wait for multiple camera files to render nor do you have to line them up later they’ll be in order already. In the end it doesn’t really matter just what you prefer in your workflow.
There is a tutorial here by Tim_Sheik
on how to set up the stage object:
http://www.c4dtraining.com/blog/?p=55
Hope it make your scene render easier.
for the third time…. what is the font of the original example? please somebody.. Thank you so much….
all i know is the same font as “Adobe CS5″ as they appear when you start up the software
Should be a Myriad Semibold
Adobe’s current corporate font is ‘Adobe Clean’.
Not publicly available I’m afraid
How i can make 5 to disappear, so that eyeballs collapse?
Instead of making the 5 disappear, keyframe static mesh on 1 frame and on the next set it back to automatic. The eyeballs will no longer be restricted to the 5.
better keyframe the dynamics tag from enabled to disabled
but would the spheres still collapse then? won’t they freeze in place?
ok nm , you meant the collision tag off on the 5. lol
was thinking about rigid one on the spheres.
: ) exactly
Fun stuff – Nick! I wonder if there’s a way to fake a liquid effect using this method (metaballs?).
very very thanks gorilla..^_^
have a nice day~
Hi Nick!
Very cool & usfull tutorial thanks a lot!!!!!
ey nick!^^ awesome tutorial!
so… i think we need a tutorial of fluids (srry for my english) idk how to e-mail you but i hope you read me xD, i tought that create a tsunami (mini) in cinema4d will be great, you are an aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawesome gorilla xD, thanks!!!
Hey Nick, great in depth tutorial there, it’s the little things that I really like to pick up on like ‘ooh, that’s what Fracture is for’ or a shortcut I have never used.
In the original there is a bit of depth to the iris (you were right about the iris by the way, believe in yourself more!) – how could that have been achieved… bump map??
on the original video, the eyeballs move when they emit. how would that be achieved?
There are a number of ways to do this. You can create an animated texture (video) and load it into the material. However the easiest way is by animating the UV position of the projected texture.Both options should work fine for this project.
Hey Nick,
How would you do this in C4D 11.5…I know it has something to do with the dynamics tags…but can’t quite figure out which ones.
Thanks and…and keep on keepin on!
Greg
Hey, very nice tut.
http://vimeo.com/26804527
Here’s what I got^^.
Hey Nick, do you have a link to your latest C4D layout?
You can download it here.
http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2010/09/what’s-new-in-cinema-4d-12-springs/
Thanks! In your latest tutorial you had no Dynamics icons in your layout that’s why I asked, or is that the only difference?
Final result off your tut Nick
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=183693815028550
greetings from holland
this is surely out of topic but I’m really curious bout how you render with small size and still maintain its quality and saturation, I already tried to render in H264 but it reduce the coloration. Can you give me the tip?
thanks
I just use quicktime to compress.
Nice tut Nick, i really like your after effects stuff and would love to see more of your AE workflows.
I just wanted to thank you for the tutorials. I just started trying out Cinema about a week ago and your site has been so helpful. Here is my eyeballs render. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuL7pQef1A4
Hey Nick,
Big question here. How do you handle learning and practicing your skills while not spending all your free time on the computer. My girlfreind has begun to hate ‘that silly 3d game’ with a vengence! But if I don’t learn, I don’t improve and if I dont improve then to me, all it will ever be is just a silly little 3d game passtime.
Help!
Hey Nick,
Great tutorial as always, tried to take it a bit further with a time constraint. Really like this style. You’re teasing us with that fade out comment at the end. Curious to see what that’s about.
Thanks!
http://vimeo.com/andyweak/aspheres
dump the girlie, it’s what i did.
then when you get money and access to places, they will come by the flocks.
Cool Beans. How about making them blink randomly or possibly all at once near the end?
That would bring about a level of creepiness often associated with disembodied eyeballs.
Just a thought
Nick! I just wanna thank you for all your tutorials. I started from scratch and your tutorials really gave me some basic skills. I made this in Cinema 4d just following your tuts.
Thanks a LOT!! here is the link if you wanna see it. Stay good! Wish you all the best!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSVheBPpH4w
Long live Tater.
Love your tutorials and you are definitely the cleverest gorilla I know
Took a take on Christians version and put my own spin on it. Thanks for all the help dude and I hope you like it 
http://vimeo.com/26877617
Just a quick note. The colours are a bit more intense than I liked as I had to compress before uploading to save time. The original is more muted
Also wish I had done a bit of dof but considering I only did it today and I am fairly a newb i don’t think its too bad 
each time i try o attempt this tutorial my c4d 12 crashes. any help can this be done in r11.5
Great Tut as always. really helpful, here is a link to a test i did based on this tutorial. Not to great but a good start. Thanks
http://vimeo.com/26928286
Sorry i forgot to mention i created in 11.5 a bit different though but same results.
Hey, I did it before Gorilla releases the tutorial
Check it out
http://vimeo.com/24866092
THANK YOU!
the dark version : http://vimeo.com/26867305
thanks a lot Nick !
Hey i also did one of those before! =)
very nice
http://elpix.deviantart.com/#/d3aw6ir
Awesome tutorial Nick! Thanks!
Hey Nick, thanks for all your tutorials.
(Sorry for my english, I’m brazilian)
I’m writing because I use an different way to change between these camera angles.
I use one single camera, set up the keyframes, go to the timeline in the F-curve mode, select them all and change the mode from “spline” to “step” (or alt+T).
This way, I can render all the angles at once, without having to create one camera for each angle, or even one scene file for each.
Anyway, I hope that I could help.
I’ve learned a lot with you, man, thank you so much!
And I have also bought the Light Kit Pro with the HDRI kit, and it’s awesome. Congratulations for that.
See ya!
Here is a version, kind of quick but it was fun to learn.
http://vimeo.com/26939219
just uploaded mine. attempted to execute the entire piece.
http://www.vimeo.com/26975344
Nice lighting on this one!
My attempt for this tutorial :p http://vimeo.com/26984005 I din’t try to make it a lot different because I am not gonna use this anywhere. It is just for my C4D and AE personal training. Now I will try some variations but I am happy with the overall result on this.
So here’s mine. Just for learning purpose i’d tried to be as close to the original as possible… http://vimeo.com/27002986
My version
http://vimeo.com/27023373
Thanks Gorilla!
Thanks for these tutes, Nick. I was able to use this technique for one of our new clients and the result was very well received.
Here is my quick shot at it! http://vimeo.com/27012205
Im rendering a more detailed variation as I type!!!
BTW Peace to the Gorilla!!!
Here another version you might like! http://vimeo.com/27053467
hah, funny
made something very similar some months ago,
watch this:
http://vimeo.com/16993395
Ei nick! just wondering what are the specifications of your mac it seem pretty fast!!
It’s a 12 core mac pro. It’s my hero.
Out of interest – once the eyeballs are contained, could you control the direction they all looked in unison? Would be a very cool/ creepy effect
Target effector might work for that one.
Hey just wanted to say thanks for the tut, slowly getting back in to C4D land and you’ve been a big help in getting me back on my feet!
thought i would share what i did with the knowledge, thanks gorilla. http://vimeo.com/27174952
Están muy buenos tus vídeos, gracias por compartir tus conocimientos de Cinema 4D
Señor Campbell.
You are awesome! I like watching your tutorials, they keep me focused! Thank you!
Hi Nick,
I am creating one like this and following your tutorials, all are going smooth but my only problem is the balls when starting to compressed each other they are like jelly intersecting to each other, and I have more balls falling out, not sticking to the “5″.
Could you please let me know how to fix it? Cheers!
Hi Nick,
i made the eyeballs but i have a problem,, i cant export [ aec ] files from C4D r12 to AE CS5.
i dont know why. u can see this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi35BEkgewo
hope u understand my english. cuz im arabic
Have u tried using file > import > choose import file….
yea i did,,
but its not working
thanks for your help
Maybe u can try and re-install the plugin if thats possible
otherwise, try google and fill the error codes.
i have that plugin in MAXON files
and i want to re-install it from here :
http://www.maxon.net/?id=1372
but i cant find the plugin for After Effects CS5 to CINEMA 4D R12 connection
i tried to search in google but i didnt find the Solution
The plugin comes with your version of cinema. Check the “Exchange Plugins” folder.
Cheers,
Nick
yea i know but it still dosnt work
i’ll try to re-install my AE
thanx 4 help
Hey nick! your tutorials are awesome!
quick question… nick do you have any idea how one would do this particle dynamics in order to create liquid? by parenting the a metaball to emitter, i tried making the metaball act the same way as the spheres in the stetic mesh… Please advice.
Hi Nick, thats for all your awesome tutorials. I learned alot from them.
Here’s my version based on this tut:
http://vimeo.com/27941508
Cheers!
Wynner from Malaysia
thats = thanks
I’ll remind myself not to type too fast…
Anyone knows how Nick make the end of his version? It’s looks like he dim out the lights?
Hey guys I am new to Cinema, I have v11.5 how can I make the text a static mesh in this version?
Hello everyone…. I got very inspired by this tutorial and decided to make an animation of my company’s logo using the techniques explained by Nick. Check it out -> http://vimeo.com/28330355
Forgot to select the “notify” option… now it’s on
Thank you for this cool tut!
here is my version of it:
http://www.vimeo.com/28571187
Another nice tut! Thanks Nick.
I’m using AE for 3 years now… And I learned the “show properties with keyframe” “U” shortcut today. What a shame..
Thanks!
Hey Nick!
Thanx for this Amazing tutorial
This is my interpretation
http://youtu.be/b7OmGf_OZxo
Greez From Switzerland
Hey Nick,
I have strange issue. For some reason not all of my spheres are rendering when I try to render out the full animation. The particular thing is, when I do a quick single frame render in the viewport, all the spheres are visible as you’d expect but whenever I send it to the render queue or the picture viewer I’m randomly missing chunks of spheres in parts of the text I’m forming.
Any suggestions?
Cheers,
Stephen
Hey Nick, Great tutorial as usual, I found this regarding multi-camera renders,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFRhvoUKe2M
Trying it out now, but form the previews it looks like it works a charm! I did find another way by using espresso, but I’ve yet to teach myself anything there yet…
Cheers
Ryan
Hey nick
here is my version of it:
http://vimeo.com/35490391
Hey Nick,
You are awesome.. thanks to you am learning Cinema 4D quickly and at ease…
Here’s a piece i made following this tutorial.
https://vimeo.com/36875224
Thanks a million.
Hey Nick,
Here’s how i took it to the next level (i feel)..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N0LF5DBENw
used strawberries instead of eyeballs.. and a jar instead of a number.
Let me know what u think.
Its because of you im into the 3rd dimension, thanks a million nick!
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Hello, I saw your tutorial and, in the render queue that you use, it is not necessary to save the file multiple times. You just have to create new settings in the render settings window, and put the same file multiple times in the render queue and selecting the setting you want to render. Thanks for the tutorial, it was great.
heeere we are….. i have some problems with the codec ;( i dont like the new vimeo new face ;(
https://vimeo.com/41336948