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Just some Teaser Images for todays simple Design Lesson

Friends,

We start with a simple but very satisfying design lesson today. The goal is to educate your good taste and recognize, what... just looks beautiful and satisfying! The ingredients are pretty simple and inspired by the design work from studio Tendril. The math goes like this:

Glass Shaders + Procedural Shapes + Colorful Gradients = Design Magic

See you later.

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My Interpretation of a Studio Tendril´s "Microsoft 365" Design Element

Friends,

look at these playful/shiny/colorful design elements! It´s just one of the many ingredients that tendril used. But I thought for a first warm-up lesson tomorrow, I focus on something simple, before we go over to more complex design tasks.

How do you like my interpretation of these design elements?

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Study the Masters: Studio Tendril´s "Microsoft 365" Lesson 01

Friends,

this is the introduction to this course, which will be split up into several lessons throughout November.  I talk a little bit about art-direction and break down several shots here, but don´t worry: Pretty soon we fire up Cinema 4D and get our hands dirty (just a synonym to let it sound like hard work, when it´s actually just fun haha).


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Next Chapter of my Career and Tutorial this Friday


Friends! Bear with me, I needed to make some important decisions regarding my future life.

For example: I decided to not just have a girlfriend anymore, but finally make her my wife haha. (I just bought the rings yesterday and she´s been waiting for me doing the step for quite a while and now I finally feel ready for this lifetime commitment. Get married, build a family, have kids, move together, just entering a new chapter in my life. It took me s...

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I got inspired by "The Future Vision of Microsoft 365"

Friends,

I was asked by one of you guys, if I could make a course about this absolutely beautiful stunning piece of work...

Check this out! https://vimeo.com/448977720

https://tendril.ca/work/microsoft-365-future/

These shots are absolutely masterful and we should get inspired by some of these...

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Big Announcement for November tomorrow!

Friends,

If have got some awesome plans for November together with you guys. I have a feeling that... you will like this one;-).

See you tomorrow!

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Next Tutorial about: Cinema 4D 2024 or Insydium Nexus?

Just want to know, if for the next upcoming tutorial (will be there in the next couple of days) I should focus on....

 C4D native tools or if you want some Insydium Nexus Fluids/Particles magic?


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WAVES with Cinema 4D 2024 Rigid Bodies

A little inspiring technique for you;-).

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Got a Favorite?

Some results/inspirations from the new WAVES tutorial. 

Which one is your favorite?

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Interested in another tutorial tomorrow?

Simple question: If yes, push that lil´heart button:-).

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Cinema 4D 2024 Gemstones Rigid Bodies

Hi Friends,

Here is a simple but powerful workflow to create super nice costum rigid bodies!


Best,

Markus

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Delicous Nike Sports Cake with Nexus Part 02

Lets talk about how to make this whole shot beautiful!

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Cinema 4D 2024 CAKES and COOKIES

There is also a new free YouTube tutorial;-).

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Delicous Nike Sports Cake with Nexus Part 01

In Part 01 we set up the simulation. Part 02 -where we go through the design process- will be there by the beginning of next week.

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Some UpRes Magic is going on here

Choose your favorite: Do you prefer bigger chinks/pieces or the more detailed small-pieces version of this delicious granular snack? ;-) 

I´m recording the tutorial right now and will upload it later today.

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A couple more Versions as Inspiration

Just a couple more versions, so you feel inspired!

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Design your own Granular Snack Tutorial tomorrow

Friends,

designing these funny snacks/chocolate-bars was so much fun today! The tutorial will be there tomorrow, so that you can design/simulate your own ridiculous tasty snacks.

Which one is your favorite by the way?

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Granular Parcour Fun on Friday!

Hi Friends,

I hope you are not bored of granular simulations already, because I want to share one more  
tutorial about this topic on friday.

After this, I think we will have some Cinema 4D 2024 fun toghether.

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Upres Granular Simulations

Let´s upres!

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Up-Res Granular Sims Tutorial today

Let´s talk a bit about how to upres your granular simulations in this upcoming tutorial today.

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Granular Parcours

Hi Friends,

let´s have more Nexus Fluids fun this week , before we learn some new C4D 2024 features.

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Free Youtube Nexus / Rigid Bodies Comparison

Hi Friends,

this is just a very basic test, if I can recreate my latest Nexus simulation with Cinema 4D 2024 rigid bodies. I didn´t went too much into depth, but I will probably do exactly that in a later patreon-exclusive tutorial;-).

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Nexus Swirl Logo Reveal Part 02

And here is part 02;-).

Have a nice weekend everyone!

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Check out these beautiful Swirl Frames

Just wanted to show you, that you can get all kinds of beautiful shots out of one of these swirl simulations;-).

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Nexus Swirl Logo Reveal Part 01

Hi Friends,

this is part 01 of this mini tutorial series. Part 02 will be there very soon.

Best,

Markus

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Teaser: New Tutorial today

Hi Friends,

I will share a cool Insydium Nexus Swirl Tutorial later with you.

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I start my 30 Days Plan / Challenge tomorrow!

Hi Friends,

I like to create these little plans from time to time, so that I feel more in control of what I wanna do/achieve in a certain timeframe and I thought: Hey, I can share them with you and -at the same time- put a little bit of pressure on me to fullfill them;-).

Probably this is not very interesting for you at all but besides work, I also left my little other goals in the list. 

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Big Plans for October!

Hi Friends,

here is a little announcement video for October;-).

Thank you all for your support and see you soon!


Markus

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Granular Simulations are so much Fun

Expect some cool granular sim / NEXUS / granular-upres / rigidbodies stuff in the next days and weeks.

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Different Settings, different Results

As said, I´m testing NEXUS granular sims right now and share the knowledge and different setups soon. So much fun!

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