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How to model a Birthday Cupcake In Cinema 4D http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2012/02/how-to-model-a-birthday-cupcake-in-cinema-4d/ http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2012/02/how-to-model-a-birthday-cupcake-in-cinema-4d/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:55:59 +0000 The Gorilla http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/?p=10410 Continue reading →]]> post thumbnail

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

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In this tutorial Simon will show how to work (or play-around) with Thinking Particles to build event-based particle systems. He also shows how to combine TP with mograph so you can create a particle system then add a more complexity to your animation with your favourite Mograph-effectors.

Example

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]]> http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2012/02/how-to-use-thinking-particles-mograph-together/feed/ 58 How to Build A Brick Road And Other Texture Ramblings http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2012/01/how-to-build-a-brick-road-and-other-texture-ramblings/ http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2012/01/how-to-build-a-brick-road-and-other-texture-ramblings/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:29:02 +0000 The Gorilla http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/?p=10316 Continue reading →]]> post thumbnail

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 Chris down the yellow brown brick road of C4D rendering. Sorry, that was cheesy.

Tutorial Preview

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In part 2 of this looping series, I show you how to seamlessly loop animations in Cinema 4D. Then, I show you the process on how I compress them into an Animated GIF. I included my Photoshop Action for automatically building Animated GIFs, too.

Download my Animated GIF Action for Photoshop

Visit DVDP

Visit Tiny Animations

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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

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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.

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]]> http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2012/01/how-to-use-the-proximal-shader-in-cinema-4d/feed/ 55 Intro to UVs in BodyPaint http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2012/01/intro-to-uvs-in-bodypaint/ http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2012/01/intro-to-uvs-in-bodypaint/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:52:09 +0000 The Gorilla http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/?p=10185 Continue reading →]]> post thumbnail

Today Chris unravels the complicated world of UVs. There is a lot to know about working with UVs. But today Chris will try and explain enough for the average user to start working with it and model a piggy bank.

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Visit the Tiny Animations Page

Yep, I have been making so many of these GIFs, I started a page to collect them all. Sure, this obsession with Animated GIFs might be a bit silly, but It get’s me playing with Cinema 4D and AE in a more simple way and it gives me an excuse to make animation without all the overhead and render time. Not sure what it is quite yet, but something “Clicked” in my head while playing with this new format. More to come.

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Chuck Anderson posted this site called DVDP in his twitter feed and I have been obsessed with it all weekend. I have been learning how to make things loop properly in Cinema 4D and how to make Animated GIFs using Photoshop. It’s been pretty fun.

I love the short turnaround time for something like this. Not a huge project or big render times. Just a way to try something fun and make it cool with as few frames as possible. I hope to do more soon.

Watch OrangeCubes GIF

Watch Puffy Sphere GIF

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Happy Holidays everyone. Things have been slow around the Greyscalegorilla office lately. Like many, we are preparing for holidays and enjoying friends and family. I hope you are doing the same. But, I figured I would put this list of holiday related tutorials and downloads together for when you just need a break from all the food, family and holiday action.

Happy Holidays from Greyscalegorilla!
Keep learning and having fun!

Holiday Tutorials

How To Make a Candy Cane Text Animation In Cinema 4D

Free Cinema Models: Holiday Pack

How to make Snow in C4D

Make a Black Friday Door Buster Ad using Cinema 4D and After Effects

How to Create Christmas Tree With Cinema 4D

Use Bodypaint and Cinema 4D To Make A Unique Snowflake Texture

Create a Christmas Tree with Xpresso

Magic Snow Plugin

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