with a little help from your friends, add movement and life to your imaginary world.
splines can be anything …. spline are anything … if you think of the skeletons and structure of everything but spline like to animate and flirt with effectors
Archive for the ‘Earth’ Category
Mospline and Mograph animated backgrounds
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Mospline – hats to 3D Kiwi
Friday, September 3rd, 2010Mospline – hats to 3D Kiwi with a little Xpresso thrown in for fun.
With C4D 12 on the way ( got my tracking number yesterday, Yes), and Python in the package
ease of adding extra impressive effects is available for all.
This gem from Mr Kiwi has been available for some time with the magic of Mospline and this fairly simple tutorial presented on his C4D site, one of the best resources for Cinema
check the news ~ Cinema 4D 12
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010yup, I’m already seeing 12. updates on their site, 12.016 to 12.021 … and it’s not even released yet
if you are lucky enough to have a MSA agreement, it should be on it’s way to you, quite nice, although I’ve been told by support that their shipping department, is quite busy
Update from CINEMA 4D R12.016 to R12.021
(Update for CINEMA 4D Prime, Broadcast, Visualize and Studio)
Click here to see the changes for this update.
Remember the days of download Apache add ons, configuring everybody to work together ….
then one day … it was just a touch of a button and a bundle with everyone on board …
Nick has only just walked us through adding python to our plugins … and Maxon bundles it with this release.
All the better …
Cinema4D celebs
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010You never know who you might run into. looking for some help scripting C4D, a little Xpresso, I start at the top,
see Chris Smith at Siggraph 2010 but as we’re giving credits and referrals … there’s Greyscale Gorilla, Mike the Monkey, Cactus Dan, … you’da thought you were at a Grateful Dead concert
and speaking of flashback to the 70’s – what if the quest was all about – a scripting language … a language that could fulfill the noble ambitions of C++ … but you could actually use ??
enter Python ~ did I say Grateful Dead concert ?
but Python it is … with such a consensus that Maxon has added it to the family
still looking for good python tuts (any links appreciated ) but in meantime …
Chris’ has nice ‘presentation to Siggraph 2010′ but when I double check my link
Chris likes Python at Cineveristy you have to be member of Cineversity …. I’m sure there’s a free one out there somewhere
yes … it’s Python … not quite ready for Prime time but it’s easy to download, easy to add to C4D, has a cute little C4D like tag, and there’s some … not a lot …. of tutorials and get starters out there.
Like Chris … which got off into the wilderness in the first place
and enjoy Chris’ Cstools which Nick presents, offers for download with instructions
CS tools download and install with the gorilla
and a cool vimeo on 3D stroke
Cinema streets green power station
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010Cinema4D is pretty cool … doesn’t create green power yet but …
I’m sure it will soon. Perhaps the creative link it taps will stir some imagination
Clover7 ~ heaven ~saving – creatin
Carnival – C4D
Monday, August 23rd, 2010let’s go to the Carnival a bit early,
not quite Labor Day but then again, not much labor to celebrate this year
but Cinema 4D will provide a carnival nonetheless
celebrate ~
Summer Images Fire and Water
Thursday, August 12th, 2010Summer Images Fire and Water
we still see the empty houses, and the broken asphalt
we see the boxes, and the lists,
it’s hot as fire, steam clouds your street
but the recovery … hey … is just at our feet …..
adding vimeo to my world
Saturday, August 7th, 2010vimeo - today
Cinema4D waterfall
Thursday, July 29th, 2010one of the fun things about animation is …. relationships intended to produce a certain ‘look and feel’ … a certain effect .. might work just fine for something completely different.
Using the cloth tag and some friction/gravity relationships you can create a pretty friendly waterfall with plane layers sliding off one another. Play with the timing, surround with a nice cartoon landscape, get some bright reflective material for your bubbly water surface and …
together they produce a nice starter for your wild paradise wonderland.
Cinema4D – Landscape primitive
Monday, July 26th, 2010you can have a lot of fun with C4D landscape primitive. Creating a diverse landscape with definitions for ‘furrows’, sea level, plateau it is very helpful to begin to create your own landscape model.
Create material that portray your land realistically,
you can animate your land dimensions if you want to do a universe creation gig – very flexible and C4D has all the goodies to go with it. Pyrocluster will help you create your volcano, smoke, if you like trapcode it is very easy to migrate to AE and add more pyrotechnics there.
I wanted a mandala sun using some of the geometery in AE than mapping trapcode’s ‘Shine’ to my sun object’s positions with the simplest of expressions binding shine to our sun.
