Category: Cinema 4D

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How to Make An Animated Title Sequence in Cinema 4D and After Effects

Vimeo asked me to do a tutorial for their excellent Vimeo School series and I said “heck yes!” It’s all about how to make a fun animated title using Cinema 4D and After Effects. In Lesson 1, we build the … Continue reading →

December 20, 2011 and filed in After Effects, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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Use Bodypaint and Cinema 4D To Make A Unique Snowflake Texture

Happy Holidays! In this short video, Chris (while wearing a Santa hat) shows you how to make a unique snowflake texture using Bodypaint.

December 14, 2011 and filed in Chris Schmidt, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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Cinema 4D to After Effects Tutorial: Plasma TV

In this tutorial, I will show you how to prepare a cinema 4D scene file for export to After Effects. First, we will model, light and animate a simple flat-screen TV. Then, we will export the scene to After Effects … Continue reading →

December 12, 2011 and filed in After Effects, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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How To Light Your Scene With A Custom HDRI and Global Illumination

In this tutorial Chris Schmidt shows you how to create a custom HDR material to light your scene by using GI, Layer Shaders, and the often missed illumination setting in materials.

December 6, 2011 and filed in Chris Schmidt, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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My Lighting Challenge Render: Lighting and Texturing an iPhone 4S

In this video, I show you how I built my render for the first GSG Lighting Challenge from a couple months ago. First, I show you some of the ways I figured out how to light the scene and then … Continue reading →

December 2, 2011 and filed in Cinema 4D, Light Kit Pro, Tutorials, Video
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Use Sprites to Build A Fast-To-Render Particle System in Cinema 4D

In this tutorial, Chris shows you how to build a particle system using sprites. First, Chris makes simple geometry that is forced to face the camera to create the illusion of a more complex object. Then, he uses particles, Mograph, … Continue reading →

November 30, 2011 and filed in Chris Schmidt, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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Threadless Fuzzy Type using Cinema 4D Hair

Mig asked me to render some fuzzy type for a Threadless page he was working on. Of course, I said yes. I rendered out the type in Cinema 4D using the Hair module. Then, he colored it and made it … Continue reading →

November 29, 2011 and filed in Cinema 4D, Design, My Work
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How to Add Caustics In Cinema 4D

In this video, I will show you how to set up some simple caustics on a scene. Caustics allows light to bounce off of reflective objects and go though refractive objects to produce realistic light patterns. Caustics can take a … Continue reading →

November 28, 2011 and filed in Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video, Visual Learning
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Xpresso Part II: Building a Picture Frame

A follow up to Intro To Xpresso. Here we create an Xpresso driven picture and frame. We get to do a little more math, explore the Range Mapper node, create more User Data, plus lot’s of little tips and tricks … Continue reading →

November 22, 2011 and filed in Chris Schmidt, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video
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Intro to Xpresso in Cinema 4D

In this video, Xpresso wizard Chris Schmidt guides you though a gentle intro for Xpresso in Cinema 4D. From set driver/set driven all the way through making your own custom user data and controlling everything in a single Xpresso tag.

November 15, 2011 and filed in Chris Schmidt, Cinema 4D, Tutorials, Video