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1955 Chevy Bel Air Tutorial

An extensive tutorial on how to model an automobile using various HyperNURBS techniques in Cinema 4D XL v6.0+. The HTML version is finally complete after an eternity of slow progress. The PDF version is done by Sarah Sanderson.

A Simple Bowl

This example introduces a few basic concepts in C4D:

setting up the windows to work in the "front" (XY) view
making a bowl cross section using splines and the points tool
lathing the cross section into a 3D bowl using NURBS
adding a wood shader to make it look like wood
changing the spline to modify the shape of the bowl
fiddling with the wood shader for different effects

An Alternative Cartoon Render Technique

As we all know, the cartoon renderer in Cinema4D XL v6 leaves a lot to be desired. There's no control over line thickness, or solarizing amount, and some shapes just look flat because the lines are only drawn around single objects. You can try to overcome this by writing your own shaders, but I discovered a technique that allows for a whole lot more control without any special plugins or shaders.

Animated Pie Charts

Making an animated pie chart is incredibly easy with Cinema 4D. Cinema 4D's ability to interpret mathematical functions allows you to calculate your percentages into angles quickly and efficiently.

Beginners guide to 3D-Cinema 4D GO Tutorial

This is the first in a series of 3D guides aimed at the small business or home user wanting to get started in 3d, maybe wanting to animate a company logo or add a bit more panache to a still image of the logo.

B-Spline Vase

In this tutorial we're going to use B-Splines and a Lathe NURBS object to create a simple vase.

Character Creation in Cinema 4D XL V6 Tutorial Part 1

This will be a two part tutorial. The first section will show how to create basic body parts and join them together and the second will show how to shape the basic body into a character. Now don't take this tutorial as "the only way" to do this you could make individual body parts and shape them to be joined later and end up with a mix and match collection ready to be used over and over. First thing to do is create a cube then double click on its icon in object manager and change all the segments to 2 except for Y make that 3. Now make that editable by hitting the C key and then create a Hyper NURBS object and drag the cube onto that in the object manager window you should then have this.

Character Creation in Cinema 4D XL V6 Tutorial Part 2

Welcome to the second part of this tutorial. In this part Steve Shanks will show you how to really mold the character using some of the neat tools in Cinema 4d XL V6.

Character Tutorials

The following tutorials deal with character modeling and animation with Cinema 4D XL. I tried to lay down the important steps as good as possible, but please keep in mind that there are always a lot of ways to achieve a certain goal (which probably holds true for life in general). Play around and find out what works best for you.

Cinema 4D XL Tutorials

Tips on Morphing Splines
Cel Shading
The full on bones tutorial
What's a timeline? A beginners question

Cinema 4d XL6 Training CD c4d

Produced by the world famous Virtual Training Company, this new CD by Matt Neutra provides the perfect introduction to all aspects of CINEMA 4D XL6.

City Scene

One simple way to create a cityscape is to model a few simple buildings and duplicate them several times to achieve the illusion of a large city. This tutorial takes a look at how to create and position buildings suitable for a realistic, low-polygon city scene. In following cityscape tutorials, we will add greater detail to the city and create a fly-through animation.

City Scene: Fountain

This tutorial will go through the steps of modeling and texturing a basic fountain. XL users will get additional information on how to use emitters to make their fountains work.

Close up Detailed Building

In this part of the tutorial, we will create a closely detailed building for the camera to zoom in close. Therefore, this building needs to appear much more detailed than any other building in the city while still keeping a low polygon count

COFFEE Dialog Tutorial

This is one of the first is a series of Cinema4d scripting tutorials targeted at introducing COFFEE. .

Coffee Table

We're going to use B-Splines and Cubic Splines to accomplish the coffee table shown above. You'll be surprised at just how easy this is to accomplish.

Creating a Simple Faucet

This is a fast and simple method of creating a basic faucet with knobs

Creating Detailed Buildings for City Scene

At this point, we will focus on making the city more realistic looking by creating a few more detailed buildings. These detailed buildings will stand out against the plain buildings in our animation. They will be placed closer to the camera to give the effect that, as you get closer to any building in the city, you will see greater detail. It is unnecessary to create each building in detail since the camera will not be zooming close to every building in the city. At the end of this animation, the camera will zoom in close to a door on building. Since the camera moves in extremely close to this final building, it should be more detailed than any other building in the scene. The following tutorials will focus on the creation of a much more detailed building with landscaping and the animation procedure.

Eyeballs

This tutorial will take you through the steps of modeling, texturing, and animating a pair of blinking eyes. The project is included so you are welcome to add them to any character you've created.

Film Reel

This is the reel that will be used in conjunction with the film strip and the projector tutorials. You will be creating one half of the reel and then using a symmetry object to finish it off.


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