The Exciting Adventures of Savingsman

So remember when I did a bunch of belly-aching about how all the car commercials I make all the time are so dumb, boring, ineffective?

I recently had some down time at work and got to knock out a project I devised and has been on the back burner for awhile. If I had my way, I would spend most of my work week doing one nice, creative, and clever spot like this instead of a dozen crappy ones.
 
I don’t really think it’s very hard to come up with something different and creative to sell cars. This is merely a spec spot, so it’s unfortunately never been on television. I really hope it does, but at the rate were going, it might never make it on. It was an even better idea when I thought of it this summer when gas was like $13 a gallon. Continue Reading

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I’m Dumb

I forgot to post the file that goes with the paper rip tutorial. It is now available here.

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2 New Good Links

Here’s 2 good new links for you:

cgtextures is the best texture site I know of.

stockfootageforfree offers what it says, stock footage for free.

New Tutorial: Crumpling Paper in Cinema 4D

So I finally posted a new tutorial. This one shows you how to make a crumpling paper animation in Cinema 4D, like this video.

 I discovered the basis for this tutorial while doing a lot of experimenting with the Cloth Tag in Cinema 4D. It definitely saves a ton of time rather than the alternative of keyframing the entire animation. I would recommend playing around with the settings rather than just using what I gave you; you can get different results for you animation and experiment a little bit.

I’m going to make an effort to post tutorials more frequently. If you become a registered user I will send out a notice when a new tutorial is posted, or you can subscribe to my feed.

 Feel free to email me any questions you may have about this tutorial.

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Cinema 4D – Paper Crumple with Cloth Tag

This tutorial shows you how to make an animation of a paper crumpling up into a ball. It uses the cloth tag in Cinema 4D and requires no keyframing, which would save you a ton of time if you need to pull off this effect. I give an example of some settings that work with the cloth tag, but you can tweak the numbers to vary your results. Download the project file here to start the tutorial.