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HDRI Light Kit Pro Demo Tutorial

The Gorilla — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:43:28 +0000

I’m really excited to announce my new product called HDRI Light Kit Pro. It’s a kit for Cinema 4D that lets you quickly create studio lighting for your scenes and renders. Check out the demo above where I show you some of the tools, kits, and studios that come with the product. Or, visit the promo page where there are more examples and videos. I have been working on this for over 5 months now and I’m so pumped to show it to everybody. Thanks for watching.

Buy the GSG HDRI Studio Light Kit Now

CS Tools – Flicker

The Gorilla — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:24:47 +0000

Posted purely for historical accuracy. It’s not the most useful of the CS Tools, but you may find a reason for it? Campfires? Candles? Disco Party? What are your ideas?

If you make something cool with Flicker, please post it in the comments will ya?

How to Install the CS Tools

Download the CS Tools Here

Watch all of the CS Tools Tutorials

How to Make the 2010 Winter Olympics Ice Cube Event Bumpers Part 2

The Gorilla — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:36:02 +0000

In This tutorial, we finish the Olympics Ice Cube tutorial in After Effects where we use fractal noise, blurs, glows, photos, text, and curves to complete the animation, compositing and color correction.

Final Animation

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How to Make the 2010 Winter Olympics Ice Cube Event Bumpers Part 1

The Gorilla — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:03:35 +0000

In this tutorial, I show you how to make the ice cube bumpers that have been popular on the NBC’s presentation of the olympics. I show you how to build an ice cube using material displacement, refraction, transparency, reflection, and specular highlights. I also cut out a photo of a snowboarder to add to the ice cube logo. Then, we animate the rotation of the ice cube and prepare it for After Effects where we will add the rest of the elements for the final piece.

Reference Olympics video of what we are making (US Only… Sorry)

Photo By Darkmatter

Part 2 Coming Soon…

How to make a Cascading Text Animation With Cinema 4D and After Effects – Part 2

The Gorilla — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:28:28 +0000

In the second part of this tutorial, we color correct and composite our final animation in After Effects using a combination of blending modes, luma keys, blurs, vignettes, glows, and gradients.

Final Render

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How to make a Cascading Text Animation With Cinema 4D and After Effects – Part 1

The Gorilla — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:27:09 +0000

In this tutorial, I show you how to make a fun cascading text effect shown below using Cinema 4D. Mograph, shader effectors, step effectors, and extrude nurbs. I also show you how to light the scene by using some reflective white cards and my upcoming Studio Light Kit.

Based on this animation

Final Render

Watch Part 2 Here.

CS Tools – Easy Cam

The Gorilla — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:00:00 +0000

How to Install the CS Tools

Download the CS Tools Here

Watch all of the CS Tools Tutorials

Intro to the NURBS Tools in Cinema 4D

The Gorilla — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:08:15 +0000

In this episode, I go though how to use the NURBS tools including, Hyper Nurbs, Extrude Nurbs, Lathe Nurbs, Loft Nurbs, Sweep Nurbs, and the Bezier Nurbs tools. I use nurbs tools to help me model basic objects and to help with animation.

Stopping Time: How to make the Matrix Effect in Cinema 4D

The Gorilla — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:11:21 +0000

In this tutorial, I show you how to stop time in your Mograph Dynamic renders. I call it the “Matrix Effect” where time stops or stands still for a moment before it starts again. I’ll show you how I use the Project Settings to control the speed and timing of an explosion.

The Final Result

How to make a Dynamic Chain with Cinema 4D

The Gorilla — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:51:51 +0000

In response to a question from: ITV Teacher

With help from This tutorial and CG Society.

Final Result