Welcome to the tutorials page. I wanted to put this page on my site because of how important online video tutorials were and still are to my growth as an artist. I feel like I should give something back considering how many tips and techniques I’ve learned from other people I never met through these same type of tutorials. So these may not be the best out there, but I will try to offer anything to help anyone develop their skills in motion graphics. There are tutorials on here for both After Effects and Cinema 4D. Enjoy.
Moving Curtains Reveal
Create a set of parting curtains that reveal footage behind it, all you need is After Effects.
Spider Web Animation
Uses Adobe Illustrator and After Effects to create and animated spider web.
Outer Space Galaxy with Fractal Noise
Learn how to use the Fractal Noise plugin in a few ways to create a cool space scene.
3D Stroke Glow with Trapcode 3D Stroke
This one shows you how to use Trapcode 3D Stroke to make a streaking logo revealer.
Paper Rip Effect
Learn how you can rip video footage like paper in After Effects.
Automated Bar Graphs Using Xpresso
Check out my tutorial on
CG Tuts to learn a way to create bar graphs using Mograph and Xpresso. These 2 Cinema 4D components make it so we can create our on data and input to drive the look and style of the graph. Once you create the base file, you can use it as a template to create bar graphs whenever you need to. You can export a video with graphs from Cinema 4D instead of creating a static, boring one in Powerpoint for your next presentation.
Create a 3D Subway Train Composite
Follow the link to
view my CG Tuts+ tutorial about how to create a fast-moving, 3D subway train in Cinema 4D and then composite it into a subway station photo to make a realistic scene. The modeling in done in Cinema 4D, and the compositing is done in After Effects.
Model and Texture a Beach Ball
Watch this one to see how easy it is to model and texture a cool beach ball.
Paper Crumple with Cloth Tag
This tutorial shows how to use the cloth tag in Cinema 4D to crumple a piece of paper up into a ball.
Camera Shake with Xpresso
Learn how to add camera shake with Xpresso’s User Data.
Interactive Speaker with MoGraph
Create a speaker model that animates itself to the beat with MoGraph.
Super Text
Check out how to extrude text to the extreme in Cinema 4D.
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November 9th, 2007 at 8:21 am
Thanks for the tutorial. I agree, there are so many tutorials out there, it’s great to give back. I’ll make it my new years resolution to do that myself.
I’ll be sure to send you a link when I get around to using this great effect.
I read somewhere on your site that you’re a C4D user. I go back to version 6. I wouldn’t put myself up against may of these hard core 3d artists out there, but it helps to augment my AE work.
December 12th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
[...] Big Mike has a new tutorial on his site and it looks very cool. Super Text in Cinema 4D tutorial. [...]
June 13th, 2008 at 2:05 am
[...] I found the Camera Ahake tutorial particularly useful. Great stuff Mike. Thanks for making these. [...]
June 24th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Love your tutorials. I’m trying to learn more about C4D since I just started, and your stuff really helps. I was wondering if you could give some insight on how you did the “current_ cubes” video you have up. I really love that one and would love to learn how something like that is done. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge with us.
June 25th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Well Mike, you will need though MoGraph module in C4D for that. If you have it, create a Cube primitive and use a cloner object set to Grid. Add and line up your clones so they essentially form a solid Cube that is now composed of many, many cubes. Add a random effector and set the parameter to position, and keyframe the value of the effector to move the cubes outward, which you can do just a little to offset them slightly, or make them explode far away from their origin.
Check this info here for more info on MoGraph. It’s worth the price, it creates endless possibilities for animation.
http://www.c4dcafe.com/reviews/Mograph/cloner.php
July 13th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Are really good tutorials, i hope to see more in future.
http://www.imandesign.at
August 5th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
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October 30th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Hey Big Mike,
Just checking out your bad ass site. It totally rocks! Would love some feedback/tips for my own site (not yet ready to be posted but close)
ttyl
Jennifer
November 27th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Hi Mike,
Great tutorials. I look forward to many more.
Quick tip on the Super Text tutorial;
Instead of making the type editable use C1, R1 (front of type) C2, R2( back of type) [C = caps R= rounding ]. Example: Apply the material to extrude nurbs/ select material/ tag/ in selection area insert – C1. Drop a material w/o specific selection as the base material – this will texture the sides. In the view window/display/select -stacked materials. Order the material tags on the extrude nurbs accordingly i.e. base, rounding, caps.
For the spot light work around: Turn off auto light in render settings/ options.
-G
December 5th, 2008 at 1:03 am
Thanks for dropping the knowledge G.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Hi Mike,
thanks for the Tutorials, I just googled for Camera Shake and ended up watching every clip here
Just one note on the paper rip tutorial:
if you got an alpha map with no sharp edges, you can also use curves on the alpha channel to get rid of the half transparent pixels. You can also grow your alpha map using a blur and after that the curves on the alpha channel.
December 10th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Good call that would definitely work, nice tip.
December 28th, 2008 at 6:04 am
great stuff… just one thing sound effector only accepts selected .au and wave files haha it was a little irritating finding this out after hours of trying to recreate what you were doing…
December 28th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Sorry I didn’t mention that in the tutorial. I was definitely using an aiff file in the tutorial but included an mp3 version in the downloadable project files. I switched it out. Thanks for visiting.
January 4th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Please make a tut on how to create that spray paint effect you have in your reel!
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Thanks for the tips, I love finding out about new tricks
March 16th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
thanks for making such good tutorials. keep it up.
April 4th, 2009 at 3:00 am
good tutorial… thx…
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:01 am
[...] Mostly Cinema4D tutorials but some AE ones thrown in there. Worth taking a peek. [...]
May 27th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
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May 28th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Good, somebody besides me has seen The Wire.
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July 30th, 2009 at 9:28 am
Your AEtuts reveal looks great. Do you plan on making a video tut of it. That’s something to look forward to.
July 30th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Thanks Robin. That would be a tricky tutorial to produce, since I used a vector file I purchased online. I wouldn’t be able to distribute it for everyone to use, so I would have to develop a whole other process just to get to the starting point. Email me with any specific questions on the technique and I try to help out. That goes for any other commenters out there. Thanks for checking the site.
September 19th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
YO!
ure da BEST…IF you continue this….
YOU will be the most Famous….
I love u already (NO HOMO)
October 9th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Thanks for these. Really appreciate the Cinema 4D ones – needed to learn how to use sound to effect objects in Cinema 4D and you’ve really helped me out! Thanks again!
October 25th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Hi! BigMike, I love you too….:) Thanks for the tutorial you are my man—keep up the good work. Hey! I’m using Cinema 4D can you make a tutorial on how to bring a picture box to After Effects and apply footage to it. I try to do it my self by using a Matt. well it kind of works, but when I do the animation the pic won’t move with it…:( Can you help me figure it out–thanks for you time—cheers!
Marty