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27 Jaguar XKSS Breakdown

In this video I go over the breakdown for the renders I made featuring this awesome vintage vehicle.

As always I'll go over the full scene, lighting and materials. Hope you guys enjoy this one!

PS: I switched things up here and I didn't add a music track to the recording, let me know if you guys prefer it like this so you can play your own music in the background or if you dig the lo-fi beats I usually use.

Upcoming breakdown

This month I'll be breaking down the renders I made for the Pixel Lab Competition featuring a Jaguar XKSS. 

This one is Redshift!

Stay tuned for this one, should be out next week.

Demo reel feedback!

Hey Patrons!

Hope you are all enjoying the content.

I was thinking about next steps and I figured some of you may not know that I was a Teaching Assistant for School of Motion's course Demo Reel Dash and I've also been a mentor on what used to be Mograph Mentor.

That's just to say that I've had experience providing feedback for demo reels and I wanted to see if you guys here would be interested in a video of me watching your demo reels and providing feedback. 

2023-05-26 22:22:54 +0000 UTC View Post

26 Coors Bottle Render (Octane) - Part 02

Alright here's the good stuff!

Composition, lighting, materials and post effects on this one.

This is my first Octane tutorial on here so please let me know what you all think. Hope it's good!

26 Coors Bottle Render (Octane) - Part 01

Here we go!

Part 01 is available to everybody. Short but sweet.

Enjoy!

Coors Banquet render (Octane Render)

Hello!

I know it's been quiet around here, I appreciate everyone's patience and welcome to all the new patrons this month!

If you guys like Octane, then you are in luck. I've been getting back into it lately and I decided to try out a bottle render this time and here's the result.

So, this month we are going to be looking into everything that went into making this render happen with C4D and Octane.

Still not sure if I will do it in two parts, but we'll see, I need to r...

Apologies!

Hey everyone, just a quick note to apologize for the radio silence. My whole family got hit with COVID and it's been non stop these past 3 weeks.

Between being sick, taking care of the my wife and daughter and working I've been slammed.

We are on the other side of it now, still recovering but yeah, feeling much better.

Thank you for your patience, more content coming soon.

Thank you!

25 Recreate: Tendril Cashapp Styleframe

Here it is!

My first long format video on Patreon. There was A LOT of votes for this on Instagram so I thought I'd give it a shot.

You'll see how I attempt to recreate this styleframe by Tendril Studio from start to finish with some Voice Over from yours truly.

I didn't put any music on this one so you can play your own while you watch.

Enjoy and as always, let me know your thoughts in the comments below!

How difficult is it to recreate a frame from Tendril?

The answer is simple: IT'S VERY DIFFICULT!

I've spent the past two days in R/D on this frame, trying to recreate it and see how I could attack it and man, it's been tough! I learned a ton in the process though.

I'd say the result is pretty close! There's a few things here and there that I would like to iron out but at some point we got to be able to say "enough is enough" and move on to the next thing.

I asked on my Instagram stories a while ago and people were interested in...

Easy AO pass in Cinema 4D and Redshift

Here's a quick tip I think not many people know about AO passes in Redshift.

Organized live posts

We all know that the way Patreon shows live posts is very frustrating to say the least, finding a post or quickly getting a birds-eye view of all the content is very difficult.

So, I've gone ahead and made it easier for you all to find my exclusive Patreon content in Notion.

Click on this link to get a grid like view (much easier to see) and you'll b...

24 Datsun Exploration

Hey hey!

Got a lot of questions about this one, so here it is! A quick Sunday exploration with this Datsun 1972 model. Always exploring moody lighting.

Enjoy and let me know any feedback/questions!

2023-03-11 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Checking in!

Hello everybody!

I want to say we are super close to hitting 100 Patrons and from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU!

I apologize for the radio silence recently. I moved to another state and just driving here took us 4 days plus then waiting for all our stuff to arrive, move everything in, etc... it's been a ride and I'm still unpacking but the office is all set up in the new place and I will get back on track in the following days.

Today I set aside a couple of hours to just...

Video Resolution Question

I just realized about an issue on Patreon where videos coming from Youtube won't play at the highest resolution possible but cap at 720 on the Patreon Mobile app.

Are you guys having this issue as well? I noticed this on another creator I support and it won't let me play videos higher than 720p but on the desktop it goes up to 1080p.

Let me know please

23 File Structure, Takes and Tokens

It can't be all just lighting, materials and animation right? I get questions about how I structure my folders for commercial projects and how I integrate takes and tokens to work smart and not hard.

So I thought it would be good to share this video which is more on the "admin" side of things but definitely something important to know and apply to your workflow.

Just a quick thank you note

I just wanted to take a moment and say THANK YOU to everyone on here supporting my content.

I really appreciate everyone's support and sincerely hope you are all finding the content valuable. Even though it's not easy to balance personal life, work life and Patreon life, I really try hard to provide good content for everyone here.

If you are currently a patron or have been in the past thank you very much for your support!

I hope this community grows in 2023 and I get to be ...

TEDx 2019

I was just updating my website and watched this again after a few years. Still to date one of the best projects i've worked on, especially considering I worked on this just as I was starting to use Octane and this was my first time working in a project of this magnitude with a team across the globe.

Thought I'd share it here with you guys in case some of you haven't seen it.

22 Softbody Inflation

Happy Holidays!

Here's the video for December. This time we are going over softbodies and mograph as well as lighting and texture.

I'm trying out the video natively in Patreon, please let me know in the comments how it's working on your end or if we should stick with Youtube embeds.

Thank you!

Happy Holidays!

I hope everyone is having a great time during these holidays.

I have new content coming soon! I just wrapped up a very demanding commercial project and I'm just taking a couple of days to be with the family.

In the meantime I wanted to offer all current Patrons a free download of my automotive shaders as a little holidays thank you gift.

Fun fact: these car shaders can also be used to shade Christmas Tree ornaments 😂

2022-12-25 17:38:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Chat with Styleframe Saturdays

Hello everyone!

I wanted to share this interview where I talk about my career and my work. Just came out today so take a look if you have a few minutes to spare and if possible support the Styleframe Saturdays podcast channel.

They have interviews with many other great artists and I recommend you watch them!

Let me know what you all think and if there's any questions.

Enjoy!

21 Simulated Cloth Grass - Part 02

In this video we'll go over the challenges I found for creating the realistic grass and all the different approaches I took until landing on the final result.

I'll also share some miscellaneous Cinema 4D tips and tricks.

Enjoy!

PS: I know the video gets blurry/pixelated in certain points where I'm moving quickly on the viewport. I'm still learning the ins and outs of OBS and I have updated the settings so all upcoming videos will be much higher quality

More cloth explorations

Hey everyone!

Wanted to share this exploration from the other night. I saw this on Stylo Creative's stories. They made something very similar in Houdini and I wanted to see if I could recreate it in C4D and I did!

Took a couple of hours but it's definitely a lot easier to do than in previous versions.

You guys interested in tutorials like this?

20 Simulated Cloth Grass

Here it is! 

In part 01 we'll go over the cloth sim and lighting. Part 02 will be about the grass.

Enjoy!

You can check this animation out here 

Simulations Galore!

Hello everyone!

Hope you are all having a nice weekend. Here's a little preview of what's coming this month. I've been hard at work experimenting with simulation stuff and I think the results are great. Finally I'm able to art direct cloth and soft bodies without losing my mind.

I also have another exploration from this series that's more particle related but it's not ready yet, so expect that to come soon. Just know that for that one we will explore X-Particles.

Whi...