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 ‘After Effects CS5’ Category
Mospline and Mograph animated backgrounds
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Mograph and Mospline celebrate Labor Day
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010Mograph and Mospline celebrate Labor Day … being lazy with a formula effector
It’s so easy to create monster shapes that have life and detail -
Mograph, Mospline with a sampling of effectors. You can only get lost playing with all the possibilities. And I think you’re supposed to play on Labor Day, right ? Some of the interconnections in Cinema are a bit daunting at first and I’m only beginning to see the possibilities but
that’s part of the fun. You can do really cool things all along the way.
You can find this tutorial at Cineversity or many other similar searching for ‘effectors’ and/or ‘MoDynamics’
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
Knoll Light Factory CS5 is here
Thursday, August 26th, 2010Knoll Light Factory CS5 is here. So …. let’s animate a spline. Why ? Why not.
Knoll CS5 is quite cool with easier editing of your light selections and the tuning you will do within each category. There is a preview editor that makes so much difference and much more sophisticated than before.
I know form had a preview editor, seems like different RedGiants did/didn’t but Light Factory might be seen by some as their flagship, I mean how many more Star Wars will there be … so it’s great that’s it’s ready to go with CS5 and has some significant improvements of it’s own.
So animate a spline ? I just can’t put down Cinema4 and since these guys love to play together … we’ll do a quickie to welcome KLF to the magical world of 64 bit AE (even if most of the lights are noted as 16)
welcome with a little sparkle, a little spline, and a humble expression from AE
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 ~
spline path – aliens need energy after all
Friday, August 20th, 2010spline path – aliens need energy after all
animating a spline path in C4D can be just about anything. Energy connections, cellular growth, ‘mystical’ writing.
Define your skeletal outline, add a shape for your spline’s body, parent them with a sweep nurbs – I’d do C4D just for the crazy shape names. I wanna be nurb when i grow up …..
Friday ~ what a great day for a mystic alien
Saturday, August 14th, 2010Friday ~ what a great day for a mystic alien
special powers, special shapes, magical possibilities
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 …..
