jssuarez

Update Jan 2025

Cyber Monday week savings!

Starting today through December 06 enjoy a 40% discount on my products including The Business Side of Freelancing - Back Office Operations which will help you navigate the business and admin side of being a freelancer in the 3D, Motion and Design industries.

My materials packs also include this 40% OFF.

Patreon Memberships are 20% OFF for the first month so now it's a great time to join!

Use code 9A14A for products in my shop.

41 HPE Soccer Ball Effect

Hope you guys enjoy this one!

Update for upcoming tutorial

Hey everyone!

Quick update here. The above is another recently finalized project with Goodbit studios.

I got to do some creative direction, design and animation for the soccer ball section and I'm going to be breaking that down soon, hopefully this week.

Below is my original contribution to the video before my booking ended, glad to see a good amount of it made the final edit!

 ...

40 Beauty Product Stills: Sol de Janeiro Breakdown

Happy Halloween!

In this video we talk about lighting this Sol de Janeiro beauty product in a couple of scenarios and I give you some tips that I find useful for these types of renders.

Enjoy!

Upcoming content

Hey everyone!

Hope you are all doing well!

This project recently came out publicly and I can finally talk about it. It was for Sol de Janeiro and some massive screens in London. I was in charge of the 3D of the products, the animation and some After Effects work as well.

It's been a minute since I've done product renders, so I think this is a good opportunity to showcase/breakdown how I approached the renders for these 3 products.

We'll look at materials and lighting, ...

39 Embroidery/Stitching on Custom Shapes Part 02

Hope you are all having a good start to the week!Here's part two of the embroidery/stitching tutorial where I'll show you how I approached the wavy effect and the vertical threads.

Be sure to check out part 01 for the rest of the effect.

Enjoy!

38 Quicktip: No Dynamics Art Direction

Hello everyone!

Here's a super quick tip that I think it's very useful to know. No dynamics involved but art directable object to object collisions!

It's pretty simple but yeah hopefully useful!

Cheers!

37 Marshall Styleframes Breakdown

Hello everyone!

In this video I'll break down two of the styleframes I created as a personal project with the Marshall Speaker.

These were made in Octane so hopefully this is interesting to you.

Enjoy!

Random Marshall Exploration

Hey!

I know it's been quiet over here., and I'm sorry about that!

I spent a month traveling and going back home to be with family which I hadn't seen in 7 years. Much needed break!

These are some images I worked on for a project that never saw the light of day and wanted to share.

These are made in Octane.

If you guys are interested, I may do a breakdown, however, my Octane license expired so I'll have to see if I can use a trial version or just show the ...

36 RECREATE: Creative Studio - TBD Video Bridge Reveal Shot

In this video I attempt to recreate a shot from Creative Studio's TBD video.

I breakdown the animation and do the lighting/shading in real time, so you'll see my mistakes, and problem solving I do to get as close as possible to the reference.

Here's the link to the project from Creative Studio -TBD Explainer Series :: Behance 2024-06-04 01:45:40 +0000 UTC View Post

35 Legion Video - Breakdown Part 03

Here's the last part of this series!

In this video I go over the post production in After Effects. Hope you guys enjoy!

Finally figured this one out!

I know it's been a while since I did the threading tutorial but finally had some time to sit down and finish this up with some nice fabric flow and the addition of the vertical threads which I think add a lot to the effect.

I did have to slow the effect down a little bit so the viewer can digest what's happening.

Which one did you like better?

Of course full breakdown or part 02 is coming soon!

34 Legion Video - Breakdown Part 02

In part 02 of this breakdown series I'll open each C4D file and give you guys an overview to the elements that make each scene.

33 Legion Video - Breakdown Part 01

It's been a minute since i've done a commercial project breakdown so here's part 01! 

In this part we'll focus on the back end of the project, the brief, initial styleframes and pitch and fun things like the contract.

Legion XIII

Latest video I worked on for the LIV Golf League for the reveal of their Legion XIII team. 

This was a SUPER fast turnaround project but it was fun (at times) working on it.

Let me know in the comments if you guys would like to see an overall project breakdown to explain how it went.

Or, if there's specific shots you'd like me to go more in depth. Depending on the interest I might do that as well.

Cheers!

32 Embroidery on custom shapes

Let's take a look at how to create threads for embroidery on custom shapes and animate the threads.

I'll go over the theory and the technique behind generating the proper geometry for the threads, animate them and light and shade the scene. We'll also use Hair for a more organic look.

Teaser January 2024

Happy new year everyone!

I've been experimenting with knitting in Cinema 4D and I know there's millions of tutorials out there about this but I think where mine sets apart is in creating threads for custom shapes like this.

After all, it's not the same to create a knitting animation with a procedural/simple shape like a plane versus something custom like a client logo, which is very specific.

Bare with me as I just had my second child and between that, work and sleepless nig...

Thank you thank you!

Wanted to drop a quick note and say thank you to every single one of you that has supported me here on Patreon.

I really hope you all enjoy the content and know that your support means a lot to me!

More to come in 2024.

Cheers!

31 Deep dive into Takes

In this video we'll go all in into Takes and I'll show you how I use them for stills and animation alongside with Tokens.

If there's any specific questions you have about Takes please let me know! 

The Take system is very powerful and useful and I want you all to be comfortable using it!

Quick poll about benefits

Looking for ways to add more value to my Patreon and I want to know:

Would having access to a Discord be valuable to you?

I'm also open to any comments/feedback of things you think would make this Patreon better...

How can I help?

Hey everyone!

Just had a baby last week so I'm taking some time to enjoy being with him and adjusting to having a newborn at home but I wanted to check in with everyone here and ask, how can I help?

Is there any questions about any back-office stuff or maybe a certain technique in C4D?

Maybe it is an advice I can give you on a specific situation you are going through?

Let me know!

Back-Office Operations - Teaser for upcoming video

I'm almost done with the presentation!

Here's a preview at some of the topics I'll be covering but I also decided to include a Q&A at the end so I can answer specific questions you guys might have, especially the new Patreons.

So please if there's any questions you have about the business/management side of freelance post them here so I can select them and include those in the presentation.

So far I have around 90 slides plus I'll be doing some live demo stuff so I'm pac...

Upcoming content

Hey everyone!

I've been hard at work experimenting with part 02 of the Hair series but to be completely honest I need more time especially because I want to figure out controlling the hair animation and share my findings with you.

So I decided to pivot and work on something I've been wanting to do for a while.

Im working on a video (or couple of videos. Not sure yet) where I go over many concepts and topics related to freelancing and I also share how I approach many of the...

TheraFace Mask by Therabody

Hey everyone!

Wanted to share a new film I worked on recently with some amazing artists.

Some real proud moments on this one 🙌

Credits:

Agency:

DNGR | @dngr.ltd

Creative Director:

Sloan Anderson | @sloan.elliot

Art Director:

Gonzalo Miranda | @gonzzzalo.m

Additional Art Direction:

Jesus Suarez | @j.ssuarez

Animat...

29 Hair Beauty Shots - Part 01

Hello!
Here's the new video for this month. We will be talking about this shot made in Cinema 4D with the Hair Module and Redshift of course.

I'm calling this part 01 because my plan is to make other shots and even animation with Hair and break those down so stay tuned for upcoming videos.

However, this video is ALL about the shot you see below, from start to finish.

Thank you to all of you for your continued support! 

2023-09-29 16:46:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Hair explorations

Hey everyone!

Just a quick post to let you know this month's video will most likely be about hair beauty shots. Kind of like the ones you see on shampoo ads.

I wanted to share a tease of how the images are looking. I REALLY want to animate these but it's taking super long to figure out and to render so I might have to split it and do it next month.

But that's TBD!

Asset Inspector Quicktip in Cinema 4D

Very short and to the point but important to know!

28 Hair Tips + Rug Breakdown

In this video I show you some of techniques that I've used while working with Hair in Cinema 4D and Redshift and I also breakdown this Rug I recently did as a personal exploration to learn more about Hair in 3D.

It's a bit long but as always, please enjoy and let me know you thoughts!

And as a bonus this month I'm including the working C4D file in case you are interested (minus any GSG textures) 2023-08-09 02:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Hair in C4D and Redshift

Hey everyone!

Hope you are all having a nice start of the weekend. This month's video will be about hair in Cinema 4D and Redshift!

Redshift has been a lot more stable lately and I had to work on a commercial project that involved hair so I figure out a bunch of stuff about working with hair in C4D. I think there's going to be a lot of nice tips and tricks in this one.

Stay tuned!