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I stumbled upon to this open source plugin page. The bridge between Archicad and Cinema 4D was discontinued after rel 11 which was kind of a result from some compability issues. I believe Maxon will update this but meanwhile one can seek some good alternative and free file transfer bridge for Archicad to Cinema 4D.
Minimum version of Archicad you will need is 12 and Cinema 4D r 10.5.

http://dinnye.neobase.hu/content/downloads

News – 1st of Feb. 2010

Starting from 2nd of february 2010 I will be employed by Micro Aided Design, distributor of Cinema 4D in Finland.
Therefore all reselling of Maxon Cinema 4D products through my company Kraphik 3D will be discontinued.
All previous Cinema 4D customer contacts will be transferred to M.A.D. where I will be working with Cinema 4D sales, teaching and customer support.

Kimmo Rinta-Pollari

News: Helsinki, Finland

January 18 2010

For immediate release:

Kraphik 3D to represent Craft Animations in Finland
Craft Animations announces a key strategic partnership with Kraphik 3D for resale of world-renowned Craft Director Studio.

“We are excited to be represented by one of Cinema 4D’s leading resellers in Finland.” says Craft Animations CEO Deborah Lygonis. “Cinema 4D is shaking up the 3D world, which is why we recently made Craft Director Studio compatible with it, alongside Autodesk’s 3ds Max, Maya and Softimage.”

Game developers use Craft Director Studio for their cut-scene animation because Craft Director Studio automates the animation of both vehicles and cameras in the 3D environment.
Craft Director Studio is well known in the games industry, being used by such customers as Namco Bandai Games in the cut-scene animations of their latest game Tekken 6.

Hiroyuki Shirai, Animator, Computer Graphic Motion Department, Contents Production Group of NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc. explains that the methods for generating motion which they have used in the past have had great restrictions.
One example is motion capture; it is difficult to use motion capture when the scale of the scene constantly changes. For instance, a camera enters into the car that is driving recklessly at high speeds.
Or think of the scene where a character enters from far-off on a motorcycle, approaches the camera, and then leaves again. Mr Shirai explains that his team was given a greater power of persuasion with the greater degree of freedom that CDS offered.
Not only would the alternatives have meant they would have to collect a prohibitive amount of data, but they would have been restricted in their creative process, not being able to create all the affects they had wanted.

About Kraphik 3D

Kraphik 3D is a privately held 3d-visualisation company based in Helsinki, Finland, producing visualisations and consept design for many industries including architecture, advertising, building and medical technology. Kraphik 3D is also official reseller of Cinema 4D in Finland and international reseller of Vray for C4D. For more information, please visit www.kraphik3d.com

About Craft Animations

Founded in 2006 and based in Gothenburg, Sweden, Craft Animations ™ AB is a leading developer of a new era of professional real-time 3D animation technology, Craft Director Studio ™.
Based on cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and autonomous control systems, Craft Director Studio simulates the complex physical behavior of 3D vehicles such as helicopters, cars, airplanes, boats and motorcyles. Utilized by high-profile companies world-wide such as Pixar, Digital Domain, Nasa, Lockheed Martin, Digital Dimension and Toyota; Craft Director Studio streamlines production, enhances realism and increases creativity for users in the visual effects, game development, forensic reconstruction and architectural design industries. For more information, please visit www.craftanimations.com.

For more information, please contact:

info@craftanimations.com
Craft Animations AB
Stena Center 1D
S-412 92 Gothenburg
Sweden
+46 31 352 2980

Kraphik 3D
Helsinki, Finland
Kimmo Rinta-Pollari
kimmo (at) kraphik3d.com

Couple of years back I was a big fan of Pimp my Ride tv series. Of course I still am but nowadays much more a fan of 3d graphics and Cinema 4D. I found the site called yodawgyo.com which had full of jokes from the original “Sup Dawg”. I got this funny idea. For a non 3d artist it might sound terrible but I find it very funny as I am a 3d geek.

The image was also published to their site here:
http://www.yodawgyo.com/yo-dawg-i-herd-yo-like-making-3d-graphics/

I understand it´s not funny for non 3d inclined. Some people do not understand geek humor enough to understand the joke. Yo 3d

My Cinema 4D tutorials list can be found from the top Cinema 4D tutorial index menu or the index list page.

Cinema 4D tutorials index list

I found this very useful list of 25 free 3d modeling programs.
Actually I was googling for the TopMod3D which I had
previously installed on my old pc. Now I have a laptop
which has got no TopMod3D installed yet.
It´s very easy to make complex
high genus 2-manifold geometry with it and with this tool you
can create artistic solid (watertight) mesh forms for 3d printing
and prototype models.

I have had so much fun with it and
created a basic yet a complex shape which I then exported
into Cinema 4D and added hypernurbs and with some further
subdivision modeling on the inner parts. And of course added the
sphere inside.

Here´s some tests made with TopMod3D and Cinema 4D.

This is a parody of the Avatar poster. The original movie is created by James Cameron who is also the director of Titanic movie. In finnish language Ahven means a perch which is a fish. The idea just struck me one day and this is the result. I had previously modeled a fishman face with Cinema 4D in 2008 and I modified it quite a bit to make the Ahven poster version. The changes were the new eyes and nose. Currently I am working with the new skin shader. The skin texture you can see in poster
is version 1.
The new skin shader in model v2 picture. I think the latest version will be much better with Sub surface scattering and better skin pores. I´m not sure if it would look
even better with some gills on the side. Of course because it´s half a fish and half a human.

Wireframes:

Original fishman model:

New modified ahven model:

Poster – download

I have created a Global Cinema 4D users group for professional and hobby users in the early
2009. Now in my LinkedIn group there´s a bit over 100 members with some well known Cinema 4D pros.

Go to the profile page here:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=1970665&trk=anet_ug_grppro

I downloaded this great python toolset called py4D for Cinema 4D some time ago.
This is not a full review but just a quick test.
I got very excited about py4d but still because I am not a programmer I had to test the example script with my own models. py4d has got some ready example scenes for users to try out.
After cranking with the tools I was thinking about if I could start learning to write some simple python scripts.

Py4D is also nicely put into basic Cinema 4D top menu in GUI. Very handy to use this way and it feels already integrated into Cinema 4D. What is best I´ve just read that Maxon wants to make strategic partnership with py4d now. http://ow.ly/Mozi

py4d scripts – a whole lot bunch of them

In scifi series you can often see spaceships arriving from portals. There´s an elastic object scale script
in example files. It scales object groups in a bit cartoony way. I think it´s very handy and is efficient in
short intro animations because there´s no keyframes needed to make the “plop” effect.

View the animation by clicking on the image

Py4D rock engine and Mograph 2

I tested the rock engine first with basic floor object then thought ok fine it works with that.
But I achieved a real good effect with landscape object with Mograph rigid body dynamics
added. Of course the rock object works perfectly with mograph effectors and all.

View the animation by clicking on the image

Download the python 4d plugin from http://www.py4d.com/

I have had this constant problem with two languages. I like to write finnish posts but there´s many followers in Twitter who understand only english. I have decided to write in english from now on.

So to the point. I made a 3d intro animation for a short tv advertisement campaign of finnish online auction website fiksuhuuto.fi . Their website is also translated in swedish and english + some other languages.
In all countries the logo and the identity name is different. In sweden the name is mr svensson and in Great Britain they call it mr123.

I made the intro parts with Cinema 4D and the video editor guy made the final advertisement.

English version Mr123 (direct link to flash version of the animation) :

http://www.kraphik3d.com/anim/fiksuhuuto_portfolio_english/

View the intro finnish version here:
http://kraphik3d.com/anim/fiksuhuuto_logoanimaatio_iso/