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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/

“Kraphik 3D´s Chokolate shaders”

Merry xmas 2009 and have a nice new sweet shaders next year.
I had lot of free time in weekend so I have cranked all new cinema 4d freebie stuff all day long.

Just follow this link and to bottom of the page

The head of Virgin Galactic Richard Branson tells about new commercial
space flights. Other interesting stuff about entrepreneurship in general.

Cinema 4D version 11.5.

Cinema 4D r 11.5

Kraphik 3D teki jälleenmyyntisopimuksen Vray for Cinema 4D renderointiohjelmasta Itävaltalaisen Laub Labin kanssa eilen 29.4.2009.

Vray for Cinema 4D on high end renderointiohjelma joka on ollut pitkään käytössä jo muilla 3d-softilla esim. 3ds max.

Nyt virallisena jälleenmyyjänä Suomessa on t:mi Kraphik 3D.

Tuotteen virallinen jälleenmyyntihinta on 790 € + alv 22%

Lisätietoa ja tilaussivu: http://www.kraphik3d.com/vray4c4d.html