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C4D cloth 2023 (PROJECT FILES)

C4D cloth 2023 partB (VIDEO TUTORIAL)

Happy new year everyone!

I hope you had some well deserved time off and came back refreshed and feeling creative! Or technical! Whatever floats ur boat :)

Second part of 2023 cloth exploration. I will increase the complexity with each part so in the end you have an idea of how to approach different setups + steps to debug cloth issues.

Very happy to be here for one more year and very grateful for the support, love and kind words you send me from time to time. I also wante...

C4D cloth 2023 partA (VIDEO TUTORIAL)

Hey friends!

In the dusk of 2022, I bring you the first case study that I did with the new C4d. I intended to do a Houdini grain/snow tutorial as xmas bonus but unfortunately I am sick for the last 3 weeks. It was hard to switch gears again as lately I am on top of c4d to catch up with all the updates. But, I hear you, more Houdini content will come soon-ish.

I wish everyone happy holidays and a happy new year!
With love, creativity, curiosity, less stress, more fun, less wor...

Implications of AI as is (NOT A TUTORIAL LOL)

Hey guys,

This year instead of shinny balls and snow shaders, I decided to do a different type of video and have a monologue about the heated concept of AI :) As you might be aware I was one of its most early adopters with beta access to various tools. I already posted some first impressions few months back here

I think having these talks from time to time is super importa...

C4D cloth 2023 (SNEAK PEAK)

PART1 PART2 PART3
2022-12-08 14:03:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Complex flowers part11 (VIDEO TUTORIAL)

And yes! With those cool little hacks I am concluding this big series!
I know some of you wanted more, some might be bored though!

I think its time to move on -for now- as I wanna do an extended series on new c4d cloth and art direction. Plus I got a lot of personal/commercial work that I want to breakdown. Plus nexus, plus pyro, plus whatever is coming soon-ish.
Honestly while I love c4d new updates, trying to catch up has been killing me haha. I also wanna do some more houdin...

Complex flowers part10 (VIDEO TUTORIAL)

Happy month everyone!

In these last 2 parts of this endless series, let's see how we can manipulate keyframes/alembic files in as efficient ways as Cinema4D allows us. I found some very interesting hacks to have good viewport performance while working with alembics.

Cu in the next one!

3 year contest winners!

A week has passed and here are the results:

This years winners are Angeliki Hristoff https://www.instagram.com/hristoff_/  and Kousha Motamedi https://www.instagram.com/koooshaaa/

1 year octane license / 500 rndr points and 3 month xp fused license. Congratulations guys, beautiful stylefra...

XP Nexus: Grains (VIDEO TUTORIAL)

I had to record this in between the flowers cause u know what happens? I do rnd and then I forget all about it and i have to remake it haha. The amount of updates is vast lately and I barely catch up myself!

So here it is our first Xparticles new Nexus tutorial + how to render grains in new versions of Octane. Nexus is a new addition to xp that uses gpu acceleration. Its super fast and therefore art directable.

I will do some case studies over time but honestly all you need to k...

Cinema 4D 2023.1 is out!

Hey everyone,

New c4d came out yesterday and if you dont know what the fuss is all about go check Rocket Lasso latest 2023.1 features video.

The main thing in this release is an integrated pyro system for smoke and fire that works with every other dynamics on top. As you see in the cover image I did a quick example where I advect splines.
We ll go into that when I ll do breakdowns but meanwhile I strongly urge you to update. Maxon has been surprising us with last 2 great rel...

3 year contest nominees!

I wanna thank so much all the participants. Your submissions have been wonderful and I had such a hard time to pick only 5 artworks.
Therefore I cheated and I picked 7 haha!

That being said, let's give it a week for voting. Can't wait to see what you guys decide!

Please download attachments to see the artworks, pole doesnt allow me to add photos

Cheers!

Complex flowers part9 (VIDEO TUTORIAL)

A brief look and comparison between Taiao and Forester.

I use both depending the occasion but I would really prefer to add more features in each so we can use either or.

Project files for everything is found here 

ps. specifically for "part8.zip" check the hidden layers.
There are various Xparticles setups in there too that I didn't have time to break d...

Complex flowers part8 (VIDEO TUTORIAL)

Happy month everyone!

More floweeeerssss haha!
I promise! Few more parts this month and then I am jumping to another subject. As interesting as flowers are I wanna also explore other things at this point.

But till then more explorations from modelling to alembics to Taiao and Forester!

Stay tuned!
T.

Complex flowers part7 (VIDEO TUTORIAL)

Hey hey,

I am close to wrapping up the flower explorations, although it can take forever as i love the subject and there are millions of things we can do :)

Till then though one more part. This time regarding rendering realistic leaves in Octane.
FYI, since a lot of people ask, those principles apply in every engine. Shading and lighting are software agnostic skills. Material theory and light approaches are everywhere same.

Project files are updated in the same 2022-10-21 11:54:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Complex flowers part6 (VIDEO TUTORIAL)

Same approach but way more procedurally in newest Cinema4D 2023.
I think this is the best update since R20. While I haven't tested it in production just y et, I urge everyone to update.

This version introduces many new stuff that will change (in a much much better way) how we work in c4d from here onwards.

I hope you are as excited as I am :)

Complex flowers part5 (VIDEO TUTORIAL)

Let's explore how to control dynamics with precision via keyframes. This approach is for s26 Cinema4D, kind of "old way" of doing things, but not everyone is on the latest version. So this can come in handy in many cases plus is a good intro to 2023 new animation dynamic controls.

Let me know what you think!
Cheers

3 year Patreon anniversary contest!

3 years old already!!

Time flies by so quickly and I never expected how warm the motion design community would hug my efforts. From the bottom of my heart a huge THANKS to everyone that has been here all this time!

I tried to get some sponsorship for this anniversary, so here we go:

a) An Xparticles Fused license for 3 months.
b) An Octane license for 1 year + 500 RNDR points

I would normally just give these out but Patreon guid...

IBC 2022 (VIDEO TUTORIAL+PROJECT FILES)

Hey friends,

For those who kept asking, here is my latest presentation for Maxon.

As a bonus for Patreon, you will also find attached all the project files I used in the presentation (plus some extra ones that I didn't have the time to showcase).
All done in S26.

If you need more info about specific aspects of this project let me know, as I was thinking to do some octane tutorials on that one.

Waiting on your feedback :)

Cheers,
T.

IBC 2022 "Proceduralism for art directors"

Hey everyone,

Your 42 year old buddy that looks 26, is gonna present in IBC 2022 for Maxon. It is the 4th time I present for Maxon and I couldn't be happier after 2+ years without live events.
I will breakdown a title sequence we did 2 years ago and didn't have a chance to talk about it in Patreon so far: https://motion-punk.com/Coyote

This Friday 8th and Saturday 9th of September...