Posts Tagged ‘Earth’

Mospline and Mograph animated backgrounds

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

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

Mograph and Mospline celebrate Labor Day

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Mograph 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’

check the news ~ Cinema 4D 12

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

yup, 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

Release of CINEMA 4D R12

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 …

MAXON Announces Acquisition of Py4D

Cinema4D celebs

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

You 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

CStools 3D stroke

Cinema streets green power station

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Cinema4D 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

Knoll Light Factory CS5 is here

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Knoll 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

do the gorilla with cs tools

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

if you wanna do a lot with a little and use your imagination as much as any linear design

do the cs tools – easy to download at the grey gorilla

greyscalgorilla CS Tools install tuts and download

too much fun right out of the box  with download, installation, and individual tool tutorials

spline path – aliens need energy after all

Friday, August 20th, 2010

spline 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, 2010

Friday ~ what a great day for a mystic alien

special powers, special shapes, magical possibilities

Summer Images Fire and Water

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Summer 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 …..