Model an iPod Nano

In this two part tutorial over at John Dickinson’s Motionworks, Grischa Theissen breaks down his process on modeling an iPod Nano in Cinema 4D.  This is a pretty long tutorial set, but Grischa really goes in depth and lets you watch his entire workflow from start to finish.  A pretty cool tutorial if you are just getting into modeling within Cinema 4D.

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Toon Drops

Everyone loves some Graymachine.  Harry actually hasn’t really done too many Cinema 4D tutorials, though he uses it quite a bit in his workflow.  This tutorial however, shows how he created his “toon drops” effect for his work on the Nickelodeon Teen Choice Awards  Promo Graphics.  He uses the Mograph Spline Wrap and Sketch and Toon to quickly and easy animate some 2d graphic elements.

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Cinema 4D’s Lights System

There is a new Cinema 4D training site on the horizon… aptly named C4DTraining.com.  They have a ton of tutorials over there, but one set of tutorials in particular caught my eye.  Its a three part series on everything to do with Cinema 4D’s Lights system.  You will first learn about the different types of lights, shadows and visible light.  From there move into some more intermediate knowledge such as the settings in the details tab of lights and how everything works.  Then finally finish it all off with how to use Link Active Object to look through your lights to make lighting the scene a bit easier, and also learn how to use the transparency channel of a material to make gobos or cuculoris.

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Liquid Logos

Chris Martin is new to the tutorial scene, but he has been rocking it lately with tutorials on Creative Cow as well as CGtuts+.  He specializes in Cinema 4D, RealFlow, and Syntheyes, and with this tutorial, he shows you how to make a sweet looking liquid logo using RealFlow inside of Cinema 4D.

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Stylish Liquid Type Logo

Since CGTuts+ launched a few months ago, there has been so many tutorials to come out of that website… well I really don’t have a punchline for that, so we’ll just leave it as is.  One of the most popular applications that gets requested though, is Cinema 4D, and for a tutorial to have awesome liquid using RealFlow, and also utilize some After Effects, well, its just a match made in heaven.  I don’t know if you guys know, but I also do the tutorial roundups over on CGtuts+, and just for you C4D fanatics, I got a massive roundup of your favorite app’s tutorials coming up very soon, so stay tuned!

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If you guys like roundups, I have a lot more where these came from… hit up VisualFXtuts.com for daily inspiration, news and things like that going on in the VFX/AE world, and look for my weekly roundups where we check around 300 sites and wrangle up all the tutorials that get posted during the week.  Here is the latest roundup: 2 Weeks = 114 Tutorials!

You can follow me on Twitter @toe_fur and follow my site @VisualFXtuts, and don’t forget to follow Nick too @nickvegas!

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Hey, everyone! My name is Topher Welsh. You might have seen me around the web a few places, but Nick has asked me to throw out a handful of tutorials every once in a while to let you all know about some of the other cool tutorials in the AE, C4D and mograph tutorials from around the web. So without further ado, let’s jump into it!

CC Cylinder

Garus Booth is relatively new to the After Effects tutorial scene, and his website really has an awesome look to it.  He has some AE, some C4D, and even some Photoshop and Illustrator stuff on there.  This tutorial though, deals with using CC Cylinder and providing some workarounds to give it a 3d look as well as integrating other elements in with it, and making it behave the way you need it to.

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A workflow with Soundkeys
John Dickinson is one of the more favored veteran AE artists out there on the web. Everyone at one time or another has benefited from his multitude of tutorials on Motionworks.  This tutorial however takes you through a boxing promo he worked on at Foxtel Australia, and shows you to use Trapcode Soundkeys to control the look and feel, as well as CC Glass and Trapcode Shine to give some awesome, unique effects.

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Running Man
I am always stoked to see something new from Shoaib Khan and his site, MaxAfter.com.  He generally deal with only 3ds Max and AE (hence the name MAX + AFTER), but in this tutorial he shows you how to apply Trapcode Form to some footage to create a 3d particle system of a running man.  Pretty rad, to say the least.

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Cinema to AE
Pariah Rob only has a few After Effects tutorials on his site, but has a buttload of C4D ones.  This tutorial though, shows you how to take C4D scenes and bring them into AE and apply some minor tweakage while in AE.

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Intro to Expressions
Now I know a lot of people don’t really dig the expressions side of After Effects, but it is something that you are just going to have to learn eventually!  Why not sit in on this session with Adobe After Effects Product Manager, Michael Coleman?  He is probably one of the best people to walk you through this, and with this recording from Adobe MAX he really covers a lot of ground in the hour available.

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If you guys like roundups, I have a lot more where these came from… hit up VisualFXtuts.com for daily inspiration, news and things like that going on in the VFX/AE world, and look for my weekly roundups where we check around 300 sites and wrangle up all the tutorials that get posted during the week.  Here is the latest roundup: 2 Weeks = 114 Tutorials!

You can follow me on Twitter @toe_fur and follow my site @VisualFXtuts, and don’t forget to follow Nick too @nickvegas!

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