Make the Best Clay Renders with these Tricks, 3D Settings, and Materials

Tricks, Settings, and Materials for The BEST Clay Renders

We take materials seriously here at Greyscalegorilla, and we happen to have what we think are the best Clay materials in the world. BUT, the right material is only part of the battle, then you need to know how to make them look their very best.

In this video, Chad Ashley gives you all of his favorite tricks for better clay renders in Cinema 4D and Redshift.

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Greyscalegorilla member EJ Hassenfratz created this wonderful stop-motion animation using the Greyscalegorilla clay materials available in the Cargo app.

How to Create Stop-motion Claymation effects in Cinema 4D

In this tutorial E.J. Hassenfratz covers lots of useful techniques and tricks for speeding up your Redshift material and animation workflows. To get the best version of this effect, he will use the Clay Doh Material Collection along with our Cinema 4D animation plugin, Signal, both included in Greyscalegorilla.

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