Category: Chris Schmidt

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The Cinema 4D Tutorial For Absolute Beginners

In this tutorial, Chris starts from the VERY beginning and very briefly cover a lot of topics. The goal here is that a brand new user can get their feet wet and create a very basic final render that includes … Continue reading →

April 11, 2012 and filed in Chris Schmidt, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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How To Make A Clover Field With Hair

Today, Chris shows you how to make a clover field from scratch using a really fun little technique with Cinema 4D’s hair tools. Great for just whipping out a whole bunch, or specifically placing each one in the perfect spot. … Continue reading →

March 13, 2012 and filed in Chris Schmidt, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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Cinema 4D Dynamics Connector Series: Tank Treads

In this tutorial Chris will show you how to put together entirely dynamic tank treads. Then, he will also show you how to build some nifty rock terrain for your new tanks to play in. Inspiration for this tutorial is … Continue reading →

March 9, 2012 and filed in Chris Schmidt, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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Cinema 4D Dynamics Connector Series: Cardan

In this second video in the connector series, Chris focuses completely on the Cardan Connector. Mainly by making a spinning spiked ball of destruction. The ideas for using the Cardan connector were a bit sparse. If anyone knows of some … Continue reading →

March 1, 2012 and filed in Chris Schmidt, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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Cinema 4D Dynamics Connector Series: Hinge

Welcome to the first of the Connector Series. This first one focuses completely on the Hinge Connector (And some motors). We will walk through creating a dynamic briefcase, a toy snake, and a walking robot. Chris had some fun and … Continue reading →

February 22, 2012 and filed in Chris Schmidt, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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How to Make Interesting Water Shapes Using Caustics and Displacement

In this tutorial, Chris shows you an old technique he uses to make cool caustics based animations. He also talks about speeding up test renders, displacement, and some special lighting settings. Enjoy! Final Render

February 16, 2012 and filed in Chris Schmidt, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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How to Model a Birthday Cupcake In Cinema 4D

Ingredients Star Spline Circle Spline Cog Spline Loft Nurbs Displacement Deformer 5 Lights About 20 nulls And a dash of Subsurface Scattering Render and Enjoy! Sample Video

February 7, 2012 and filed in Chris Schmidt, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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How to Build A Brick Road And Other Texture Ramblings

Today, Chris Schmidt shows us how to make a realistic brick road using Cinema 4D using Mograph tools and noise textures. He also goes over how to texture the bricks using displacement to make them jagged and random looking. Follow … Continue reading →

January 24, 2012 and filed in Chris Schmidt, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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Explode and Shatter With Cinema 4D And Cloth Dynamics

In this video, Chris shows you how to quickly explode and shatter objects using Cinema 4D’s Cloth Dynamics. Do you like this guy as much as I do? You can follow Chris on twitter, here. Example Animation

January 18, 2012 and filed in Chris Schmidt, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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How To Use The Proximal Shader in Cinema 4D

In this video, Chris Schmidt shows you how to setup and use the Proximal Shader to set up different special effects and texture tricks. There are some really fun examples in this one.

January 10, 2012 and filed in Chris Schmidt, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video