| | | | 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 | | | | |
| | | | Stencil or Drill Spline/Path into a Polygon Object???
by Justin Vennes on Oct 27, 2009 at 10:51:08 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 | | | | |
| | | | Cinema 4D atom effect
by Brett McManus on Oct 27, 2009 at 6:28:48 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Hi
Im tryin to build an object like this (atom) :
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/01/24/9d/atom-brussels.jpg
the modelling is no problem, what I am tryin to achieve is to build it in a way that when i move one of the balls | | | | |
| | | | Particles and Rigid Bodies
by Mathieu Champagne on Oct 27, 2009 at 3:19:51 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Hello everyone,
So here is the premise for what I'm attempting to accomplish. I have a rain cloud that is hanging out above a live action character. The character pulls out an umbrella, opens it up, and the cloud (created in cinema 4d) begins to | | | | |
| | | | Re: Final Cut Server + LTO-4
by Craig RussillRoy on Oct 27, 2009 at 6:54:10 am
in the Apple Final Cut Server Forum
I used to use lto with retrospect with watch folders - horrible times !!! Try time navigator - fcs can't control the lto so you will need additional software
MINTedit
London, England
Mac Pro - 8gig ram - FCS 3 - CS4 - Cinema 4D
Film, Edit and | | | | |
| | | | Re: Announcing the Walk Designer for Cinema 4d
by Jannis Labelle on Oct 25, 2009 at 11:01:48 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Hi Adam, Thanks.
Yes it is something I will be selling but at the moment I am still developing it. It will come with some other helpers for doing the job so I don't have a deffinate idea about price and release date, but what I can say is that it | | | | |
| | | | Announcing the Walk Designer for Cinema 4d
by Jannis Labelle on Oct 25, 2009 at 9:56:31 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Hi Everyone, I am announcing my Walk Designer tool for Cinema 4d to the community. It a procudural generator of walkcycles and a fully animatable Ik rig. It is intended to help you generate any type of walk cycle from realistic kinds to cartoony, and | | | | |
| | | | Re: Need help with laptop
by Todd Kopriva on Oct 22, 2009 at 11:53:20 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I don't know about Cinema 4D, but that seems like enough RAM and a good enough processor to do basic After Effects work. (It's pretty similar to the laptop that I used for a lot of AFter Effects work until four months ago.) Just don't expect to use R | | | | |
| | | | Depth Of Field with alpha channel
by Marco Cardenas on Oct 22, 2009 at 12:08:47 am
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Does anyone know a work around in Cinema 4d for rendering depth of field through an alpha channel? I would just render out separate passes but for a few particular shots this is somewhat impossible. Or does anyone know a plugin besides enDOFin to do | | | | |
| | | | Cinema 4D (Rotating Camera)
by Jeff Clark on Oct 21, 2009 at 9:29:16 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
HELP! This is urgent!
In Cinema 4D... I have a camera aiming down at a logo on the ground. I want the camera to rotate (180 degrees exactly) to a logo in the sky. However, when I do this with two simple key frames the camera goes nuts and does ext | | | | |
| | | | Need help with laptop
by Desmond Troy on Oct 21, 2009 at 10:17:15 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hi,
I'm gonna replace my old desktop with a laptop and have a limited budget (about $1000). I was wondering if this can handle some minor AE and Cinema 4D work:
ASUS K70IO 17.3"
Processor: Intel Pentium Dual-Core T4300
RAM: 4096 Mb
Graphic | | | | |
| | | | Re: Any luck with Go To My PC/Mac?
by Craig RussillRoy on Oct 21, 2009 at 5:10:48 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Good Morning or evening
I use Teamviewer - simply the best FREE Remote application for MAC
MINTedit
London, England
Mac Pro - 8gig ram - FCS 3 - CS4 - Cinema 4D
Film, Edit and Deliver | | | | |
| | | | New Macs
by Craig RussillRoy on Oct 20, 2009 at 4:58:22 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
New imacs - Quad cores .... upto 16GB Ram
MINTedit
London, England
Mac Pro - 8gig ram - FCS 3 - CS4 - Cinema 4D
Film, Edit and Deliver | | | | |
| | | | Spooky Wall Tracking
by Chris Martin on Oct 20, 2009 at 11:46:37 am
in the Cinema 4D Forum
In this video tutorial, Chris Martin shows you how to create a hole in a wall and track it using Syntheyes and Cinema 4D. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Missing Textures / Low Memory: video.avi or video.mov
by Marwan Tannous on Oct 19, 2009 at 4:41:24 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
The file is a .mov or .avi I tried both
The file is used as a texture movie
when ever I try to render using net render I receive the following error massage
Missing Textures / Low Memory: video.mov
or
Missing Textures / Low Memory: video.avi | | | | |
| | | | Maxon Support
by Matthew McNulty on Oct 19, 2009 at 3:32:32 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
just wondering if there is any telephone support out there for Cinema 4D... i am having no luck getting reply's from the Maxon web site...
anybody else have issues with the support? | | | | |
| | | | Missing Textures / Low Memory: video.avi or video.mov
by Marwan Tannous on Oct 19, 2009 at 12:20:36 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Dear Sir's,
I have a problem when using net render im facing the following error
Missing Textures / Low Memory: video.mov
or
Missing Textures / Low Memory: video.avi
im using a windows 2008 server
i have installed.
Cinema 4d r11
QuickTi | | | | |
| | | | Rough Edit
by Craig RussillRoy on Oct 18, 2009 at 2:11:03 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Howdy MooCowers
I am looking for a workflow that I am racking my brain with ...
Without letting the cat out of the bag.
DigiBeta ingested to ProResHQ -> Transcoded to X264 BITC (Burnt in Timecode) -> Place on a website for streaming so a pro | | | | |
| | | | Flv file - Continuous play without controls
by Mike Waltmann on Oct 18, 2009 at 3:16:12 am
in the Adobe Dreamweaver Forum
Hi, I'm new at this and I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm trying to create a page that has an object that I created in Cinema 4D revolving in the heading of the page (like a globe revolving continuously).
I created an FLV file in After Effects, | | | | |
| | | | Re: rendering objects separately
by Adam Trachtenberg on Oct 17, 2009 at 5:06:18 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
I should add that there are a couple of render pass plugins that allow you to store various states (like visibility) and then batch render, which could save some time. Render Elements is one: http://adamswaab.wordpress.com/category/3d-software/cinem | | | | |
| | | | Re: professional logos
by Rick Dane on Oct 16, 2009 at 10:13:05 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
As far as shorter learning curve, I don't know that one program is better than the other since with 3D its about learning the concepts and then you can usually use any of the programs, I have heard that cinema 4D may be easier to learn than the other | | | | |
| | | | Re: professional logos
by Rick Dane on Oct 16, 2009 at 9:37:15 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I'm working on doing some of these types of logos... to do this you have to use a 3D software, 3ds max, maya, cinema 4d, etc, etc... these are done in 3D and can only be faked in other applications like photoshop and after effects if you aren't start | | | | |
| | | | Snowfall
by Jeff Clark on Oct 16, 2009 at 6:03:42 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Trying to create snowfall in Cinema 4D. I'm assuming I have to use the emitter, but can anyone help me get started please? Know any good tutorials by any chance?
Thanks!
Jeff Clark
Broadcast Designer | Animator
jeff.clark@nbcuni.com | | | | |
| | | | Re: Cinema 4D (Creating Clovers)
by Brian Jones on Oct 16, 2009 at 1:22:11 am
in the Cinema 4D Forum
You need to make a Cloner and put it in Mode/Object with Up Vector/None and Mode/Surface. MoGraph is really deep, you can do a lot by combining settings so there is no easy way to tell you, you have to do some tutorials and play with it to get a gras | | | | |
| | | | Re: Cinema 4D (Creating Clovers)
by Jeff Clark on Oct 15, 2009 at 4:09:58 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
I think I have MoGraph. I'm pretty sure it came with the Cinema 4D bundle we purchased, but I'm not sure how to use it. I'm a pretty quick learner if I have direction though. Think you could help?
Jeff Clark
Broadcast Designer | Animator
jeff.cl | | | | |
| | | | Lighting/shadow help
by Donna Arbogast on Oct 15, 2009 at 12:21:53 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Building a scene in Cinema 4D v 10.5. I have a sky object, but am unable to activate AO. It's grayed out. So I added an omni light; I've tried various settings but no matter what settings I try, the shadows are really harsh and unrealistic. Any s | | | | |
| | | | how to bake motions in cinema 4d
by peter lacalamita on Oct 15, 2009 at 1:48:58 am
in the Cinema 4D Forum
how do I bake motions in cinema 4d 10.1 ?
I'd like to retarget anims to different characters but IK doesn't translate so I need to bake I presume. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Cinema 4D (Creating Clovers)
by Jeff Clark on Oct 14, 2009 at 8:27:37 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
I think I have MoGraph. I'm pretty sure it came with the Cinema 4D bundle we purchased, but I'm not sure how to use it. I'm a pretty quick learner if I have direction though. Think you could help?
Jeff Clark
Broadcast Designer | Animator
jeff.clar | | | | |
| | | | 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 - 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 - 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 - 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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