Cinema 4D Money Fountain

How to Create a Money Fountain in Cinema 4D

How to Create a Money Fountain in Cinema 4D Using Soft Body Dynamics In this Cinema 4D tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a money fountain effect using emitters, soft body dynamics, turbulence, and aerodynamic forces. This setup allows hundreds…

Cinema 4D Interface Displaying points derived from a Gaussian Splat file

Gaussian Splatting In Cinema 4D

Gaussian Splatting Explained: Tutorials and Workflows for Cinema 4D and After Effects Basics of Gaussian Splats Gaussian Splatting is a new technique in 3D rendering that uses point clouds to recreate realistic scenes from real-world captures. It’s…

How To Install Plugins In C4D

How To Install Plugins In C4D

How to Install Plugins in Cinema 4D: Step-by-Step Guide There are 2 methods for installing plugins in Cinema 4D R20 and later. Method 1 – Specify a plugin folder on your computer (Maxon Recommended) 1. Open Cinema 4D and navigate to the preferences…

How To Install Scripts In C4D

How To Install Scripts In C4D

How To Install Scripts In Cinema 4D Open Cinema 4D and go to the Cinema 4D Menu in the top left and click Preferences. In the bottom left click “Preferences Folder”. Navigate to the Library folder and then the Scripts folder If it is a single…

After Effects and Cinema 4D data link export

Missing Link Between AE & C4D

Cinema 4D and After Effects seem to go hand in hand these days, so why can’t they communicate better? Sure, there has been progress with tools like the Cineware plugin and the Compositing Output settings in Cinema 4D’s render settings, but there…

Cinema 4D workflow quick tips

Quick Tips To Speed Up Workflow In C4D

Quick Tips To Speed Up Workflow In C4D Speed matters in Cinema 4D. Whether you’re modeling, texturing, sculpting, or managing complex scenes, small workflow improvements can save hours over the course of a project. In this tutorial, we cover five…

Interactive Squish in Cinema 4D

Interactive Squish in Cinema 4D

Learn how to create interactive squash and stretch in Cinema 4D using the Mesh Deformer, Xpresso point control, and a Pose Morph tag for natural spring-back deformation on impact.

Shows off some code from the save at render script for cinema 4d

C4D Freebie: Save-At-Render Scripts

OK C4D users — here’s one that could save you someday. Save-At-Render is a freebie that includes a collection of three scripts designed to automatically save your Cinema 4D scene file at the same time your render is saved. No more digging around…

Cube held in place by chains inside the Cinema 4D Viewport Interface

Different Ways to Lock Objects in Cinema 4D

Different Ways to Lock Objects in Cinema 4D 5 Ways to Lock Objects in Cinema 4D (Beginner to Advanced Methods) Accidentally moving an object in Cinema 4D is something every artist has experienced. Whether you’re working inside a complex hierarchy…

Cinema 4D viewport showing multicolored tetris bricks

Making Tetris in Cinema 4D

Tetris! Need I say more? We’ll take a look at creating everything from constructing the bricks to creating a random brick-dropping animation natively inside of Cinema 4D. After that, we’ll fine-tune the animation using some tools included in the…

keyframe Bell Curve of Point Level Animation showing easing animation inside the Cinema 4D Interface

Easing Point Level Animations

Easing Point Level Animations How to Add Easing to Point Level Animation in Cinema 4D Point Level Animation (PLA) in Cinema 4D allows you to animate individual points (vertices) of an object. This makes it incredibly useful for morphing shapes,…