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I produced a new tutorial for CGTuts that can be seen here. This tutorial demonstrates how to use Mograph and Xpresso in Cinema 4D to create a sort of mini-application that can be used to design and animate your own bar graphs. The Xpresso is the key, because it gives us the ability to enter and keyframe data from a control panel, and it updates automatically in our scene.
I felt deflated when I found that Andrew Kramer produced something very similar about 2 weeks ago on his site using After Effects. It’s a totally different way to make bar graphs, but it looks like I jacked the idea from him. I had developed this over a month ago, it just took awhile to produce and get it posted. I didn’t even check his site for it until someone mentioned the relation to mine. They are very different tutorials for different programs that happen to produce something similar. The timing just makes me look sketchy, oh well.
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I just posted my newest tutorial, where I demonstrate how to create a set of curtains that spread apart to reveal footage. It’s like a theater stage or a movie theater style set of curtains that parts in the middle, and you can place your footage behind it and have it be revealed. I’m thinking of a new welcome video for my site based on this, but I’m not sure yet. So check it out on the tutorials page.
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Last month I made a subway train scene using Cinema 4D and after Effects, and the folks over at Envato liked the idea so I got to produce and distribute a tutorial for them showing how to do it. So I didn’t upload this to Vimeo or embed it on my site since it is on CGTuts+, that’s the rules. So follow the link and check it out.
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The tutorials page was getting very sloppy. The page was scrolling down forever, and I hope to keep adding to it, so I had to do something eventually. I now made it as just a kind of menu page, and each tutorial opens in it’s own page. It might help SEO wise too, I don’t know.
I added and subtracted from my reel, some stuff needed to be off there for sure.
I should have a new tutorial ready for next week, keep your eyes peeled.
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I just posted a new tutorial for After Effects. I show you how to create an animated spider web that catches some text flying into it. It starts by showing you how to create the web in Illustrator and then how to make it elastic and bouncy in After Effects. Enjoy and hit me up with any questions you may have.
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I just posted my newest tutorial on the tutorials page. It shows you how to make a beach ball model in Cinema 4D. It’s a pretty easy model to make, but I show you an easy way to texture it to get it to look like a 100% too- legit-to-quit beach ball. Yeah. Check it out.
Also, I will probably reorganize the tutorial page soon, it’s getting pretty crowded over there.
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My newest tutorial is posted. It shows you how to create an entire space scene in After Effects using primarily the fractal noise plug-in. I got inspired to do this based on part of this tutorial where it showed how to use fractal noise to make a star field and I took it a bit further. Fractal Noise has always been considered one of the most useful plug-ins; I’ve used to create tons of different things from clouds to curtains. Check out the video and you’ll be on your way to creating a scene straight from outer space.
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So my latest tutorial creates a design that is a bit hard to describe. It’s a sort of a 3D stroke-light streak-burst-glow-particle-explosion-reveal-animation. That name just rolls off the tongue. Here’s a practical example I made with the technique:
If I remember correctly I got inspiration from a Ford Flex commercial like this one at some point last year (It’s towards the end):
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I forgot to post the file that goes with the paper rip tutorial. It is now available here.
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So I finally posted a new tutorial. This one shows you how to make a crumpling paper animation in Cinema 4D, like this:
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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