After finishing the last tutorial I received several emails from other people showing how they approached spiral growth. This time I run through a variety of new ways to do the same thing and describe the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Methods Discussed
• Bend Deformer
• Extrusion Deformer
• Formula Object
• MoSpline
• CS_Recursive Spline
• FK/IK Joint Chain
Links
• xsDeformation
• [...]
Spiral Growth in Cinema 4D Part 2 With The Monkey
July 20, 2010
How to Keep Clones from Going Through the Camera in Cinema 4D
July 15, 2010
In this quick tip, I show you how to keep clones and particles from intersecting your camera during physics calculations.
Quick Render Just For Fun
Quick Cinema 4D Experiment: Marble Pop
July 8, 2010
Just playing around with some physics again. I used Cinema 4D with my HDRI Light Kit Pro for the window area lighting. I then used Frischluft Lens Care for the Depth of Field and Magic Bullet Looks for the color correction.
3D Render Time: 40 minutes
Total Project Time: 2 hours
Free iPhone 4 Model for Cinema 4D
June 24, 2010
Anders Kjellberg modeled a perfect iPhone 4 to prepare for the iPhone’s launch today and he is graciously giving it away over at his site. This will definitely come in handy for some upcoming iPhone App projects of mine.
Awesome Bonus: He lit the promo scene above with my HDRI Light Kit Pro. I’m honored!
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How to build Joint Chains for Spiral Growth with Cinema 4D and Xpresso
June 23, 2010
I’m so excited to present the first tutorial from the hyper-talented Mike “The Monkey” Senften. Well, not a tutorial exactly, but 45 minutes of pure knowledge about how to use joints, hierarchies, and Xpresso to build natural structures that are great for spirals, curls and golden section goodness. This is definitely a bit more advanced [...]
How To Make The Cherry 7up Look With Cinema 4D and After Effects Part 2
June 16, 2010
In part two of this tutorial, we finish up the lighting and animation in Cinema 4D and prepare our scene to render and for compositing in After Effects. In After Effects, I show you how to use Trapcode Particular, RS Motion Blur, Frischluft Out Of Focus, and Curves to composite the scene, add bubbles and [...]
How To Make The Cherry 7up Look With Cinema 4D
June 14, 2010
In this tutorial, I go though the process of making this Cherry 7up Animation. First, I show you how to model a simple cherry to use for the particle. Then I show you how to use the Mograph Cloner Object, Dynamics, Spline Effector, Global Illumination, and Linear Falloff settings to animate the scene. This is [...]
Ecko Artifaks Interview With The Monkey
June 11, 2010
I sat down with Mike “The Monkey” Senften of 4DThieves to talk about his latest 3D masterpiece, Ecko Artifaks. In the interview, Mike talks about the overall scope and design of the project and about how he pulled off some of these silky smooth animations. We also get some behind the scenes about the techniques [...]
How to use the Tracer Object in Cinema 4D
June 3, 2010
In this tutorial, I show you how to use the Tracer Object in Cinema 4D. The Tracer Object allows you to trace your animation or to connect clones together. I show you how to set up the Tracer Object with a Sweep Nurbs object to make dynamic lines in your composition.
Final Renders
ALL GSG FEED