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(Early Access) Controlling Growth Effects in Cinema 4D: Grass, Plants, ANYTHING!

Scene files and more! via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rocketlasso

In this tutorial for Cinema 4D Chris goes over methods to controlling growth effects as if a light was shining on the ground. From there it can additively grow, spread to edges, and create some crazy animations.


Time Stamps

00:00:34 - Catching up to the preset scene

00:01:28 - Basic Cloner & adding plants from...

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Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 24: Modeling/Sticky Dynamics (Replay)

Get bonus streams and scene files! Support Chris on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/RocketLasso 


Topics tackled:

00:00:26 New tutorial: Fast and Accurate Dynamic Chains AND Breaking chains! https://youtu.be/TFMG0_RfdO4


Game Gear Modeling 

00:01:51 General modeli...

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Cinema 4D Tutorial. Exploding Wood & Trees in C4D: Everything You Need to Know

In this tutorial for Cinema 4D we take deeper control over the Voronoi Fracture to control exactly how we want a tree or wooden object to explode apart!


Time Stamps

00:00:32 - Rocket Lasso Live: https://www.twitch.tv/rocketlasso or here on YouTube every Wednesday

00:00:45 - New home for Rocket Lasso Live Archives: 2020-06-23 19:49:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 23: Tree Shatter/SlinkyTube (Replay)

Get bonus streams and scene files! Support Chris on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/RocketLasso 

Topics tackled:

00:00:41 New tutorial: Spline-To-Surface Deformation https://youtu.be/9-xK5IpkEtw

00:02:14 Rocket Lasso Live Archive YouTube Channel! Subscribe here: 2020-06-19 19:57:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Cinema 4D Tutorial Part 2: Fast Accurate BREAKING Chains

Scene files and more! via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rocketlasso


In this tutorial for Cinema 4D we will use dynamics objects to create a realistic breaking chain! Follow up to THIS: https://youtu.be/ZjYYlV6vb58  tutorial.


Part 1: https://yout...

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Cinema 4D Tutorial Part 1: Fast Accurate Chains

Scene files and more! via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rocketlasso


In this tutorial for Cinema 4D we will use dynamics objects to create a realistic breaking chain! Follow up to THIS: https://youtu.be/ZjYYlV6vb58  tutorial.


Time Stamps

00:00:15 - New home for Rocket Lasso Live Archives...

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(Replay) OFF THE RECORD S2 EP21: Recording Chain Tutorial Follow Up

Recording a two part follow up for the dynamic chain tutorial

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Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 22: Mirror Box/Glass Shatter Dynamics/Squishy Foam Structure (Replay)

Topics tackled:

00:00:33 New tutorial: Dynamic Spline Deformations https://youtu.be/9-xK5IpkEtw 


Mirror Box! 

00:01:39 We are limited by Physical Renderer, so we only get the reflections INSIDE the box, but still cool.

Creator: Tested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6...

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(Early Access) Spline to Surface Cinema 4D Tutorial! PART 2: Explorations

 Scene files and more! via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rocketlasso

In  this tutorial for Cinema 4D we use Softbodies Splines and Field Forces  to cover the surface of any geometry in lines! Be sure to check out part  two for more explorations of the technique.

Time Stamps
00:00:32 - Change the geometry to anything!
00:01:28 - Two bit of geometry
00...

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(Early Access) Spline to Surface Cinema 4D Tutorial! Dynamics + Fields

In this tutorial for Cinema 4D we use Softbodies Splines and Field Forces to cover the surface of any geometry in lines! Be sure to check out part two for more explorations of the technique.


Time Stamps

00:43:00 - Create base geometry wit even poly counts using Volume Builder

00:02:51 - Copy and modify a second Volume to be low poly

00:05:29 - Making Splines via Hair Object

00:08:33 - Preparing the Splines with Softbody Dynamics

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Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 21: Sequins/Rippling Noise/Ribbon Folding (Replay)

 https://youtu.be/ltarJPVIG6w


Topics tackled:

00:00:11 NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL!!! www.youtube.com/channel/UCC9UqUlSKcwq5u6MxqocVzQ

00:01:08 New tutorial: Ferrofluids on Anything https://youtu.be/Lavix4Ww65Q

00:01:40 Support: 2020-06-05 20:41:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 20: Worm Skin/Gentle Splash/Water Bubble Pop (Replay)

 https://youtu.be/xsdpTpfG4mo

Topics tackled:

New Tutorial! Take Control Gravity Inside of Cinema 4D Tutorial: Fields Forces and Dominoes!

00:00:33 https://youtu.be/QOOvc7xIU1w


Interlocking Counter Rotating Mechanism.

00:03:17 Watch me struggle with Rails Spline...

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(Early Access) Cinema 4D Tutorial: FERROFLUIDS on ANY OBJECT!

 Scene files and more! via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com  



In this tutorial for Cinema 4D we will use various Field objects and Vertex Maps to generate ferrofluid spikes on pretty much any type of geometry you might have. 


Time Stamps

00:16:00 - New home for Rocket Lasso Live Archives: 2020-05-26 18:19:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 19: Yarn Growth/Breaking Chain (Replay)

Get bonus streams and scene files! Support Chris on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/RocketLasso 

Topics tackled:


Catch up with Rocket Lasso!
00:01:10 Tweets: https://twitter.com/RocketLasso
00:01:49 Insta: https:/...

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(Replay NAB) Ragdoll Characters and Dynamic Crowd Simulations in Cinema 4D

 Replay of my presentation from C4DLive's NAB show final upload from Maxon! 

If you are supporting at the Engineer level here is a link to the scene files : )

https://www.patreon.com/posts/ragdoll-scene-36287827

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(Early Access)Take Control Gravity Inside of Cinema 4D Tutorial: Fields Forces and Dominoes!

Scene files and more! via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com 

In this tutorial for Cinema 4D we will use Field Forces to take take control of gravity inside of C4D's dynamics system so we can defy gravity and have dominoes travel up walls and around twisting spirals, really anything we want to!

Inspired by Corridor Crew! If for some reason you are not already following them you should be: 2020-05-19 17:54:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 18: Ferrofluid/Spreadsheet->C4D/Floating Hairs (Replay)

Topics tackled:


Using Displacer with Displaced Noises _ Proximals in Realtime

00:00:47 Apparently Displacer can calculate displaced noises and Proximals way better than I thought it could!

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1qKqu8ppfg

Artist: richard lord https...

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(Early Access)Fields + Hair Cinema 4D Tutorial: Project 1

Fields + Hair Project 1. Instead of just the raw info, I build a little scene with a fish and some sea anemone to demonstrate some ways of using Vertex Maps to control and color Hair inside of C4D!

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:22- What is already prepared (fish 'model'/rock)

00:02:46- Adding simple looping movement to the fish

00:4:40- Using C4D Hair to build a sea anemone

00:9:47- Adding random moment to hair

00:13:34- Making Hair react to something moving nearb...

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Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 17: Kiwi Explode/Growth from 'light'/Crystal Pants (Replay)

Host: Chris Schmidt

Topics tackled:

Control the Length of Hair with Fields?

00:00:47 Control the Length of Hair with Fields via a Vertex Map! 


"Pixel Sorting" Type Style

00:05:00 Using Hair to extract the colors from an image and create stylish streaks.

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Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 16: Boole Modeling/Crack Clay/Hair Color (Replay)

Host: Chris Schmidt

Topics tackled:

Morphing Between Dissimilar Shapes

00:01:08 Morphing between dissimilar shapes. Morph defomer so we can control the where the transition happens with Fields. Using Decay to create a jiggle like effect. 

Reference: https://www.instagram.com/p/B-9e7kZBgA1/?igshid=99rj2g8dk5ni

Artist: fatcrimi...

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Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 15: Character Rigging (Replay)

Host: Chris Schmidt

Topics tackled:

Trying to make an Cloner "Emitter"

00:01:31 I go a little off the rails for this particular question to see I we can make a rig that behaves like and emitter.

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g313ZuX2gYA

Artist: Мария Микулич 2020-04-16 23:47:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 14 with guest RICK BARRETT (Replay)

Host: Chris Schmidt & Rick Barrett

Topics tackled:

Upcoming C4D Live Presentations

00:01:31 With the cancellation of NAB, Maxon is still doing presentations from C4DLive.com!

https://www.c4dlive.com/

I will be presenting on Wednesday April 22nd 2020 at 2:00PM (CST)!


A Stylized Tail Attached at a Set Point

00:12:14 Hard to ...

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Rocket Lasso Live Ep 13 Season 2 (Replay)

Topics tackled:


A Multi-layered Depth Map

00:00:36 A quick explorations of how to perhaps make a more complicated depth map. The reference is illustrated.

Reference: http://pic60.nipic.com/file/20150209/12799827_220520238000_2.jpg

Artist: liqilongqqq 2020-04-03 23:40:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 12 with guest E.J. HASSENFRATZ (Replay)

Three and half hour stream!


Topics tackled:

Intro: E.J. needs little introduction! He joins me as the first virtual guest!


Website - https://www.eyedesyn.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eyedesyn/

Twitter- https://twitter.com/ey...

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Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 11 (Replay)

Get bonus streams and scene files! Support Chris on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/RocketLasso 


Topics tackled:


QUESTION: How to keyframe an object that already has a softbody tag on it.

  • 00:00:48 Answer: You can't! But you can take the tag of for a bit...


Bubble Burst. No Plugins.

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Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 10 (Replay)

Host: Chris Schmidt

Topics tackled:

QUESTION: Can dissimilar poly counts be morphed into eachother? 

00:00:28 Answer: No, but you can perhaps match the point count by using a Shrinkwrap deformer!


A Final Fantasy-sque powerup. (Don't go too far)

00:02:22 Combining splines, clones, volumes. Big'ol mess...

Once the head of a powerful Noxian house...: 2020-03-13 21:37:47 +0000 UTC View Post

(Early Access) Creating and Controlling Wrinkles in Cinema 4D Tutorial Part 3: Car Reveal

 Notes to come... 

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(Early Access) Creating and Controlling Wrinkles in Cinema 4D Tutorial Part 2: Product Reveal

Part I: https://youtu.be/d0RN576MYWk 


Get access to bonus streams, scene files, and more. https://www.patreon.com/RocketLasso 


We get a bit more practical here with a product reveal! First creating the wrinkles, then yanking off the cloth!


00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:22- Preparing a spline...

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(EARLY ACCESS) Creating and Controlling Wrinkles in Cinema 4D Tutorial Part 1

How to get quick wrinkles for cloth simulation. Except we don't use  Cloth Dynamics, we use Softbodies! This first part focuses on the basic  concept of friction and growing cloth, as well as settings to focus on.  Ending with a good way of A/B testing of settings so you can get exactly  what feeling you want out of your simulation.  

00:00:00 - Intro 

00:01:13- Basic Setup 

00:05:13- Rest Length magic 

00:20:12- Pulling Softbody...

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Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 9 with guest Nick Hopkins (Replay)

Host: Chris Schmidt & Nick Hopkins

Topics tackled:

Support Chris through Patreon: Get access to bonus streams and scene files. https://www.patreon.com/RocketLasso 

 

Intro with special guest Nick Hopkins from Run, Kick, Shout.
I used to work out of the same space as Nick for awhile! He started his own company Run, Kick, Shout with Erik Jensen. He was a guest b...

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