Skip to main content

C4dcafe tutorial guide

If you didn't know... I learned Cinema 4d by following the tutorials at c4dcafe.com

I owe my C4d skills to 3dkiwi! ^ ^ Thats the guy who makes the tuts... A lot of people ask me how to learn cinema4d and I say "go to c4dcafe and watch the tutorials" then I get asked "which ones?" I realize I've been on that site since it started so there weren't many tuts back then... and now there's like... a hundred...

So this is the order I remember watching the tutorials... so if your an absolute beginner you might want to try them in this order...

Before you go anywhere in 3d you need to learn how to navigate in 3d space... these 2 are good for that...

Navigating Cinema 4d

Using Cameras


Now you'll probably want to model a little something...

Model a chess pawn

OMG my chess model is so WIN how do I texture it?

Applying textures

If only I knew how to light this chess pawn

Basic lighting

This chess pawn needs to live how do I animate it?!

Intro to animating

BEST animation evAR lets render it!

Rendering animations
-------------
So if you did all those you would be doing ok... then try these...

Character modeling

Hypernurbs object

Wind deformer

Explore all the tool tuts as well... and like all the other ones...Have fuN!

Comments

  1. This so good of you to lay all this info out for everyone light this. Thank you, MdoT!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

What format should I render out of Cinema 4d with?

UPDATED 2_27_13!  RENDER USING EXR Lossy Zip16! Since I'm working on a new feature film that will generate over 1500 shots made up of image sequences I need to make sure I choose the right file format to render to lest my hard drives explode. What I need from my format is  at least 16bit, an alpha included and preferably small size. I rendered out a frame from my film tallied up all the file sizes here- their all different types of codecs listed from smallest file size to largest. The render includes an RGBA pass, Depth pass, and Material Luminance pass because thats what I always render out. 1.00mb 8bit-Photo Jpeg %100 1.27mb 8bit-PNG 4.65mb 16bit- EXR lossy ZIP16 5.75mb 8bit-PSD 6.23mb 16bit-EXR lossy PLZ 6.44mb 16bit-PNG 7.94mb 8bit-TIFF 8.50mb 16bit-EXR Lossy 24 9.05mb 16bit-EXR Lossy Run Length 14.6mb 8bit-TARGA 22.4mb 32bit-EXR ZIP16 24.6mb 32bit-EXR Zip1 25.6mb 32bit-EXR PLZ 29.3mb 16bit-TIFF 29.3mb 16bit-PSD 40.0mb 32bit-EXR Run Length 58.7mb 16

Aggregated feedZ

So I totally aggregated all meh rss feedZ...So in this one handy like feed thing you can get... -Meh blog posts -Meh EXCITING Facebook status updates (ex. "I'm so FACE") -Meh youtube videos -Meh Vimeo videos -Meh Blogtalk radio episodes - and much more (actually just like some other xml code that i don't understand) Just subscribe via this link and you can get all that for a low low price of...oh wait it's totally FREE ^ ^

So a guy is trying to take credit for my film...

TLDR- Scroll down to THE THIEVERY My name is Mike- I make films under the name "M dot Strange" and I have done so for the past 10+ years- this is my story as a filmmaker culminating in a recent event wherein a "filmmaker" tried to take credit for my life's work Here's my imdb page with my film credits  My web site Here's a reel with stuff from my original films in which I wrote/created/designed/animated etc everything that you see- I can and have performed all aspects of animated film production on my films- thats sort of how I made a name for myself- by being a one man animated film studio Here's a presentation from 2014 with me discussing the production of my last film My first animated feature film "We Are The Strange" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 Sundance archives link Article about the film Link to the film Film's site Because of the buzz that film generated I was given offers to sell the