| | | | Re: Cinema 4D Separating Letters in Text
by Adam Trachtenberg on Nov 19, 2009 at 3:21:32 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Yes, it's pretty easy.
* Select the extrude object and run the "make editable" command. That will result in three objects (sides and two caps);
* Select all three and run the "connect" command. That will combine the three objects into one o | | | | |
| | | | Cinema 4D Separating Letters in Text
by Andree Franks on Nov 19, 2009 at 8:57:32 am
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Hey,
I am a bit new to Cinema 4D, so don't bash on me toooo soon! X)
I need to separate the Letters after creating a text and applying the Extrude tool. So I can animate each letter individually.
What is quicks and safest way to do so?
Than | | | | |
| | | | Explosions
by Jack Mora on Nov 18, 2009 at 7:01:06 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
I want to create a video of a person recording themselves in front of a camera for a blog. This takes place in a Japanese courtyard with a pagoda in the background. Out of the blue, I want a missile to crash into the pagoda causing flying debris and | | | | |
| | | | Free Update for CINEMA 4D R11.5 and BodyPaint 3D R4.5
by randy johnson on Nov 18, 2009 at 4:08:30 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Just thought I would share this:
Free Update for CINEMA 4D R11.5 and BodyPaint 3D R4.5
MAXON delivers over 300 fixes and improvements.
http://www.maxon.net/en/news/singleview-default/article/free-update-for-cinema-4d-r115-and-bodypaint-3d-r45.ht | | | | |
| | | | Cannot install RealFlow plugin! Please Help!!
by Scott Murray on Nov 17, 2009 at 3:43:18 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Hey,
I can't seem to install the NextLimit RealFlow plugin, I have copied the required folder into my cinema 4d plugins directory but nothing is happening, when I launch my Cinema 4D R10.5 there is nothing within the plugins tab.
Please help, i | | | | |
| | | | Re: How do you creat a 3D Spaceship from scratch?
by Steve Roberts on Nov 16, 2009 at 2:22:37 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Swift 3D from Electric Rain might be the thing.
Google SketchUp might also do the job... or it might not.
I like Cinema 4D, which is very user-friendly in many ways, but may be too much for your needs at this time. They should have a demo ...
T | | | | |
| | | | Frame Rate Conversion From C4D to After Effects
by Ron Moore on Nov 15, 2009 at 4:20:52 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
What is the best workflow to convert a 30fps Cinema 4D composition to ensure a 29.97fps rate (720 X 480) QuickTime file? Many times I just render out the 30fps .mov file from C4D, then take it into AE and change the frame rate to 29.97, provided I d | | | | |
| | | | Re: Liquid pouring into create text
by eyal Shtark on Nov 15, 2009 at 5:05:28 am
in the Apple Motion Forum
Hi
i think you are looking for something more like this tutorial:
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/martin_chris/liquid_logo.php
it is possible to do in motion with some help from masks and emitters but to really get the effect
you n | | | | |
| | | | Re: Cinema4d R11.5 to Ae CS4
by Dave Glanz on Nov 14, 2009 at 3:23:12 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Check the folder Maxon / Cinema 4D / Exchange Plugins / After Effects
That's the latest plugin that you want to put into your After Effects plugins folder.
http://www.daveglanzproductions.com | | | | |
| | | | Re: slow renders on fcp+nehalem
by Craig RussillRoy on Nov 12, 2009 at 6:46:41 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I had the exact issue with internal raid -2 month old disk failed - do a permissions on the main drive and send the renders to main drive to see if faster - it might also be a permissions issue with the render folder - worse case dump preferences ... | | | | |
| | | | 3D model movement within live footage, where do I start?
by Scott Green on Nov 12, 2009 at 3:41:46 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
OK, so I want to model a futuristic weapon/gun in Cinema 4D and film a real life character moving with the weapon ie. walking holding the weapon with both hands from a side view and then turning towards the camera with the weapon.
But where do I s | | | | |
| | | | Re: AutoDesk Smoke 2010 on MAC
by Craig RussillRoy on Nov 12, 2009 at 10:43:22 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I am totally for it - I mean look how many Hardware 8 cores running 64bit are out there - I am expecting a KONA hook up for I/O so it would make AutoDesk a small fortune - It's the PricePoint that is the Ket - If Apple were to bring out Final Cut Ext | | | | |
| | | | Free animated logo
by Dave Navarro on Nov 12, 2009 at 9:25:55 am
in the JOBS Offered - Low/No Pay Forum
I have a few free days after the Thanksgiving holiday and I'm looking for 1 or 2 businesses that could use a 4 to 10 second animated logo for their web site or other promotion. No charge. The purpose is to add to my reel.
If you are interested, | | | | |
| | | | AutoDesk Smoke 2010 on MAC
by Craig RussillRoy on Nov 11, 2009 at 9:46:27 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Well this is going to put the cat amongst the birds
SMOKE 2010 is running on OSX - a Brilliant finishing tool
http://www.fxguide.com/qt/1700/smoke-on-mac-yes-its-for-real
MINTedit
London, England
Mac Pro - 8gig ram - FCS 3 - CS4 - Cinema 4 | | | | |
| | | | Re: By popular demand...
by Ron Lindeboom on Nov 11, 2009 at 6:42:42 pm
in the CatDV - NEW ! Forum
You don't have to have all or even many of the answers, Jiggy. Our Cinema 4D forum, for example, was started by a guy who was willing to talk about what he did know -- which at the time wasn't much, as he had just bought the program.
There are for | | | | |
| | | | Re: Zoom Extents All
by Mimoza Hoti on Nov 11, 2009 at 10:03:10 am
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Hello!
Hello,please can anyone help me,on my problem with cinema 4d,i am trying to open my file of AutoCad 2010 in cinema 4d,i transfered my file of AutoCad 2010 in dxf file,but when I open it in cinema 4d r 11.5,I cannot find my object,i can not | | | | |
| | | | Re: Cinema 4D Folding paper with two axis
by Brian Jones on Nov 10, 2009 at 8:06:08 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
I think bones are not going to work since you can't turn off the interactions that occur since more than one bone is trying to affect the same part of the paper. I don't know if the new Skinning/Joint method will be different as I haven't played with | | | | |
| | | | Re: Camera Griptools - Plugin released
by Jan van Akker on Nov 10, 2009 at 2:00:42 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Update:
Camera GripTools - MIDI - now for Windows & Mac.
Camera GripTools MIDI enables you to use a wealth of MIDI hardware with Maxon CINEMA 4D. Applying the “Camera GripTools concept”, this plugin offers all functionality and control modes | | | | |
| | | | Cinema 4D Folding paper with two axis
by Tiago Rosado on Nov 9, 2009 at 1:22:54 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Hello!
I usually work in Cinema4D for architecture visualization but a week ago i came across with a issue in a a small animation of a folding paper. As my rigging knowledge is a little bit spartan, after a few days trying to find any post related | | | | |
| | | | Re: Kit
by Craig RussillRoy on Nov 9, 2009 at 12:27:34 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Thats where I got it from ! HA
MINTedit
London, England
Mac Pro - 8gig ram - FCS 3 - CS4 - Cinema 4D
Film, Edit and Deliver | | | | |
| | | | Kit
by Craig RussillRoy on Nov 9, 2009 at 9:22:36 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Hey guys where apart from eBay is a good place to sell edit gear in london ?
MINTedit
London, England
Mac Pro - 8gig ram - FCS 3 - CS4 - Cinema 4D
Film, Edit and Deliver | | | | |
| | | | Re: Mocca align tool
by Cactus Dan on Nov 8, 2009 at 4:00:43 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Howdy,
A Joint's Z axis must be aligned to the next joint down in the chain (its child joint) before applying IK to the joint chain. This is what the Align tool does.
The reason for this is because of the internal rotation order of Cinema 4D, | | | | |
| | | | importing into iMovie vs Final Cut 7
by Chris Gen on Nov 7, 2009 at 6:07:24 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum
Hi, I'm new to this forum and Final Cut Pro.
I need an advise about importing movies into FCP in the fastest way.
I am a Youtube partner and I need to make one video a week about traveling in Japan.
So far I've been using iMovie9 for all of | | | | |
| | | | Can't render simple shapes
by Brian Thuok on Nov 6, 2009 at 8:47:28 am
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Forgive me, I'm a brand new Cinema 4D user. I'm trying to render out a simple blobish shape. It's just a sphere with HYPERNURBS and METABALL properties applied. But when I render to a TIFF sequence, only the sphere ends up rendering. Do I have to act | | | | |
| | | | Re: ncoding FLV through QT conversion
by Craig RussillRoy on Nov 5, 2009 at 5:46:42 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Hi micheal
I believe the flv plugin cones with flash installation ... I think it's been a while since I installed flash - check on the laptop for apps that are not on the tower hope this helps - I use visualhub which does batch encodes and awesome | | | | |
| | | | Re: cardboard box
by Robert Barnwell on Nov 3, 2009 at 11:00:15 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Im a newb and Im trying out how to do this exactly. I cant seem to find any tutorials on how to do this. I have a flat image of the box in illustrator. I imported it into cinema 4d. But I cant seem to figure out how to get the bends correct. How I ch | | | | |
| | | | Re: Dropped Frames ( 7 seconds).
by Matt Geier on Nov 3, 2009 at 6:05:12 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum
Fabrice
The likelyhood that your storage is too slow is very possible. It may certainly have enough of the needed bandwidth, but if the storage isn't able to read/write/ and respond fast enough, you'll experience this.
It happens a lot in Sha | | | | |
| | | | Re: tabs are gone
by Brian Jones on Nov 1, 2009 at 9:22:16 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
click on the icon in the upper left corner (that's lit) under the word file, in the menu that pops up change the bottom choice from User Menu 1 to Cinema 4D Menu | | | | |
| | | | Pursuing Motion Graphics as a Career
by Emily Scollon on Oct 30, 2009 at 4:41:51 pm
in the Motion Graphics Forum
I currently work as a mostly digital artist. I color storyboards, and have an illustration background. I started with Cinema 4d and recently started with After Effects, and love it. I think it is where I want my career to go, but would love user op | | | | |
| | | | COW: What an EXCELLENT Animation -- Check this out...
by Ron Lindeboom on Oct 30, 2009 at 5:49:26 am
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Hello Everyone,
Sven Hauth posted a great animation that he created using Cinema 4D and Bodypaint, and you can watch it here...
If you would like to make comments on the movie page or rate it with your vote, please visit the page in our Vid | | | | |
| | | | Re: Fog on Cinema 4D
by Adam Trachtenberg on Oct 29, 2009 at 12:12:48 am
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Probably the best way would be to use a spot light with volumetric light. Put the light below the city, shining straight up, and exclude the ground from the light. Err, I can't actually remember if there was light exclusion in 9.5, come to think of | | | | |
| | | | Fog on Cinema 4D
by stephan deloustal on Oct 28, 2009 at 5:49:09 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
I'm trying to create fog (more like dust) around a futuristic looking city using Cinema 4d v9.5.
How can I proceed? Are there any tutorials showing me how to do it?
Thank you | | | | |
| | | | Re: motion vs. after effects
by Shawn Miller on Oct 28, 2009 at 12:14:38 am
in the Apple Motion Forum
I think it depends a lot on what you want to do. The good and bad thing about AE is that it's a great motion graphics tool that's good for VFX work and okay for compositing. I don't know much about Motion, but I get the sense that's mostly used for m | | | | |
| | | | Stencil or Drill Spline into a Polygon Object???
by Justin Vennes on Oct 27, 2009 at 10:53:54 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Hello all,
Cinema 4D V11
I'm going to try and explain this as best I can but forgive me it this sounds confusing. Let's say I have a box polygon and I want to take a circle path and "Stencil" or "Drill" the shape of the circle into the box so t | | | | |
| | | | Cinema 4D | Fracture Text Breaking News Open
In this tutorial, Broadcast Designer Jason Brown will show you how to use the fracture object feature in Maxon's Cinema 4d to make a quick Breaking News open when you are pressed for time.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Jason Brown |
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| | | | Red Giant plug-ins | Recreating a Classic 1950's Science Fiction Show Opening
In this episode of Red Giant TV, Chad Perkins shows you how he built the various elements he used to re-create of the opening sequence from the classic sci-fi TV series, the Twilight Zone. In the tutorial Chad gives you tons of valuable hints and techniques for use in Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator and Maxon Cinema 4D.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Chad Perkins |
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| | | | Cinema 4D | Cinema 4D 9.6 and MoGraph
In this article, Mylenium is taking a long hard look at Cinema 4D and the new MoGraph module. When Maxon revealed it at NAB this year, everybody was excited and we are trying to find out, if it lives up to people's expectations.
Review
Author: Mylenium |
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| | | | Cinema 4D | Texturing A Head in Cinema 4D
In this tutorial, Jannis Labelle demonstrates texturing a head in Cinema 4D and Bodypaint. Jannis says this is the tutorial that he wished he had when he first learned about texturing a mesh. He's written this tutorial so that others won't have to go through the headaches that he went through. This is not a tutorial for beginners.
Tutorial
Author: Jannis Labelle |
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| | | | Cinema 4D | The Cinema 4D 9/9.1 Handbook
In this article, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Todd Groves reviews The Cinema 4D 9/9.1 Handbook (Graphics Series) by Adam Watkins and Anson Call and published by Charles River Media; Book & CD-Rom edition, 426 pages, Copyright 2005, ISBN: 1584504021 and writes, ''...the moment I dove into it, I soon breathed a sigh of relief. Adam wastes no space between the front and back cover.'' and ''Though Adam indicates that The Cinema 4D 9/9.1 Handbook is 'best for beginners' most any user of Cinema 4D of any level of expertise will most likely find useful and helpful information inside the covers of this book''
Review
Author: Todd Groves
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| | | | Cinema 4D | Greg Serafin reviews: Cinema 4D The Artist's Project Sourcebook
Greg Serafin reviews CINEMA 4D: The Artist's Project Sourcebook written by Anne Powers, and published by CMP Books, 368 pages, July 2004, ISBN: 1-57820-242-6, and finds it to offer instruction and inspiration for users of Maxon's Cinema 4D, a powerful 3D modelling, animation and rendering software application. Often an high-end app may prove intimidating to the newbie and yet the advanced user may seek more complex uses and desire further instruction. Anne Powers provides to a broad audience an excellent and interesting textbook manual. In one sentence: If, like yours truly, you are that kind of a person for whom reading manuals sits somewhere close to the end of your priorities list, then this book is for you
Review
Author: Greg Serafin |
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| | | | Cinema 4D | Cinema 4D import: Simple Color Correction
With AfterEffects 5.5, Adobe has truly delivered C4D users an excellent solution to assembling all of your 3D pieces. Cinema 4D and AfterEffects are a very powerful combination, and in this 3-part tutorial series, Thorn shows you how to get started in the world of multipass.
Tutorial
Author: Thorn |
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| | | | Cinema 4D | Building a Stable Soft IK Leg Rig using Cinema 4D R8 Mocca
After going through Maxon's Mime Mocca tutorial, Cactus Dan discovered that when he moved the controllers around, the rig didn't behave as he expected. He was quite discouraged and found himself almost at the point of giving up on Mocca and Soft IK, but needless to say, Cactus Dan is not one to easily give up. In this tutorial, Cactus Dan Libisch shares what he learned by working through the problems.
Tutorial
Author: Cactus Dan Libisch |
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| | | | Cinema 4D | Rigging a sun for facial animation in Cinema 4D
In this tutorial, Sven Hauth will discuss the task of facial animation, and the methods that Cinema offers us to deal with it. Facial animation in this case means that he will primarily talk about animating the mouth - once you can do this, you can apply the same concepts to any other part of the face or whatever you would like to animate. After finishing it, you should be able to make your own characters talk and express emotion.
Tutorial
Author: Sven Hauth |
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| | | | Cinema 4D | Using the SplinMotion Plug-in to build an Animation Rig in Cinema 4D XL6
This article will demonstrate how to set up the SplinMotion Plug-in to build an animation rig allowing you to animate a fire hose by moving only one null. The article will not focus on the modeling or texturing aspects of the project as they're really not important, but rather the rig used to animate the spline from which the firehose is formed. This principle can be used to animate any spline based model.
Tutorial
Author: Mark Simpson |
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| | | | Cinema 4D | Vector Logo to 3D Logo
In this tutorial, Broadcast Designer Jason Brown will show you how to knock out a vector logo from Adobe Illustrator into a 3D logo in Maxons Cinema 4D. The tutorial also touches on basic texturing, lighting and animation.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Jason Brown |
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| | | | Cinema 4D | How to Control Keyframed Animation with XPresso
In this article, John demonstrates the use of XPresso to control playback of keyframed animation in Cinema 4D. This functionality is not built into the program, and the Time track in the timeline is inadequate for many situations. John looked for a solution and found a surprisingly straightforward method.
Tutorial
Author: John Starr Dewar |
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Podcasts | | | | 3d animation tutorials podcast
MAXON CINEMA 4D - MoDynamics
In this video tutorial podcast, Creative COW leader Chris Martin takes a look at MoDynamics in Cinema 4D 11.5. | | | | |
| | | | 3d animation tutorials podcast
MAXON CINEMA 4D - Spooky Wall Tracking
In this C4D video tutorial podcast, Chris Martin shows you how to create a hole in a wall and track it using Syntheyes and Cinema 4D. | | | | |
| | | | 3d animation tutorials podcast
MAXON CINEMA 4D - Tracking a 3D Object
In this video tutorial podcast, Chris Martin shows you how to track a 3D object onto a live action video shot using Syntheyes and Cinema 4D. | | | | |
| | | | 3d animation tutorials podcast
MAXON CINEMA 4D - Fracture Text Breaking News Open
In this C4D tutorial, Broadcast Designer Jason Brown will show you how to use the fracture object feature in Maxon Cinema 4d to make a quick Breaking News open when you are pressed for time. | | | | |
| | | | 3d animation tutorials podcast
MAXON CINEMA 4D - Vector Logo to 3D Logo
In this C4D tutorial, Jason Brown will teach you how to convert a vector logo from Adobe Illustrator into a 3D logo in Cinema 4D. This tutorial also touches on basic 3d texturing, lighting and animation. | | | | |
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