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Sorry for all of you that visited the site and nothing new was there. I have several problems with my own company (Station 75) – now it’s backing to normal. I hope I start to blog again in the next week.

A little test with sIBL Loader for Cinema 4D and DeGamma plugin (models from scifi3d.com and sound from audiojungle.net).

Robert make a new xpresso effects – based on his knowledge of xpresso – please look lastest HOTWO

Very great news! Steve Pedler made sIBL Loader for Cinema 4D (here comes the link to his website – http://www.microbion.co.uk/graphics/c4d/sIBLLoader.htm )- if you don’t know sIBL – look at this site: http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/index.html and some addons for that: http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html

That plugin allow you to make a very realistic renders in easy way. You choose one setup for you scene – you can download them from site above and it’s done! Here is sample how you can use it:

and one with shadow catcher:

I put sphere into scene, add cloner and random effector. Make new material – add Real Fresnel in the reflection channel and mograph color shader into color channel. After that I used sIBL loader and choose Helipad Afternoon preset. And of course I pressed Render button.

Two simple examples – based on models/textures/shaders from www.scifi3d.com:

Michał from fab4d.com made several good posts about c4d – please look:

• Multipack from Michaela Weltersa
• xs yann resources

greyscalegorilla.com made very nice animation for Vimeo:

Please read description of that process and his thoughts about it.

This tutorial introduces the connection between CINEMA 4D and After Effects. It shows how to install the plugin for After Effects, how to export layers such as shadows and reflection, how to create masks for specific objects, and how to reuse your 3D rendering by replacing video screens etc.

Using CINEMA 4D with After Effects, Part 1

Using CINEMA 4D with After Effects, Part 2

Nice tutorial showing us how we shoyld using mograph’s modynamics along with Cinema 4d’s in-built metaballs to get some nice liquidy looking stuff.

Full tutorial here.

Preview below: