Low Poly & GI baking
Here I will walk you through how to model a low poly tree in Cinema 4D and how to achieve that paper look that is becoming quite popular these days. He’ll then move on and show you how to bake Global...
Create a Stylized Snowman and Xpresso Driven Trees in Cinema 4D
In this tutorial we’ll create a stylized snowman and some Xpresso-based Christmas trees, it’ll be fun! First, we’ll go over the modeling of the snowman using some basic sculpting for the scarf and the hat (pre C4D R14 tools). Next,...
Quick Tips for Rendering Animations with Cinema 4D
File formats, aspect rations, object buffers etc… Here I will go over how to render out animations from Cinema 4D, and discuss things like aspect ratios, the pros and cons of different file formats, and the benefits of using object buffers,...
Traffic lights Cinema 4D
Traffic lights are a little feature of Cinema 4D that allow you to hide and unhide objects. This Quick Tip will teach you some lesser known methods of using them to speed up your workflow..
Rig and Animate a 2 legged walker in Cinema 4D
In this tutorial Aleksey Voznesenski will guide you through the entire process of creating and animating a two-legged robot using Cinema 4D. You will begin by modeling the robot using a reference image and then move onto rigging, animation, lighting...
Xpresso Intro tutorial
Originally published on cgtuts+ In today’s tutorial, rigging artist Aleksey Voznesenski takes us through the basics of Cinema 4D’s Xpresso scripting system. If utilised correctly, Xpresso can be an incredibly powerful system allowing you an amazing level of control over...
9 Modelling tips in Cinema 4D
These are some modelling tips that where being discussed on the mograph chat. I decided there should be a little summary of them. thanks to Brasco for clarifying some of them. use the ‘.’ ( the full stop button). click...
Switching between projects in Cinema4D
Cinema4D is awesome because you can have multiple projects open at the same time, and copy paste stuff between them. The first method is just go to the “Windows” dropdown menu at the top of cinema 4D, and at the...
Cinema 4D in the cloud
Many of you might have Cinema4D on more than one computer. There is a pretty simple way of syncing up all your layouts, shortcuts and plugins between multiple computers. Here i will explain the process with Dropbox.com, but you can...
Adjusting point size in Cinema4D
You can change the point size in cinema4D by pressing Shift+V and going to “view” and changing the point handle size You can also change the point color by pressing ctrl+E and then going to editor colors and changing...
