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From AE Freemart “Chris Smith, one of Toolfarm Expert Forums Experts. Chris made some free tools for Cinema 4D called CSTools.”

There are some useful and free movie camera tools / xpresso setups for Cinema 4D.
Really useful for movie style camera drives with crane style cameras, chase
cameras etc. Really worth checking out.

http://aefreemart.com/2007/09/27/free-cinema-4d-projects-from-chris-smith/

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

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

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 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

Mukavaa luettavaa varsinkin tuotteen jälleenmyyjälle.

MAXON teki viime vuonna kaikkien aikojen parhaan tuloksen. Ei voida tällä alalla puhua siis mistään varsinaisesta lamasta. Syynä on varmaankin ohjelman helppokäyttöisyys ja se että Cinema 4D on mahdollista asentaa sekä pc että mac-tietokoneille.

Ehkäpä tulevaisuudessa Cinema 4D on samanlainen käyttäjäystävällinen “design standardi” kuten Mac-tietokoneet. Ei turhaa valikoiden etsimistä, asetusten säätämista vaan softa päälle ja luomaan.

Käytettävyys ja helppous on aina yhä tärkeämpää taiteellisen ja luovan alan tekijöille. Kuka nyt haluaa opetella jotain 3d-ohjelmaa vuosikausia kun peruskäytön voi oppia erittäin hyvin jo vuodessa.

MAXON ANNOUNCES 2008 RESULTS – STRONGEST IN COMPANY HISTORY

http://maxon.net/pages/dyn_files/dyn_htx/htx/2594/02594_02595.html

Aloitimme tammikuussa 2009 Cinema 4D jälleenmyyntikampanjan Suomessa. Tässä kuussa kampanja alkaa jo purra ja lisenssejä ostetaan ja upgrade päivityksistä kysellään.

Varsinaisen markkinoinnin hoitaa Cinema 4D:n maahantuoja Micro Aided Design. Toimin itse Cinema 4D:n jälleenmyyjänä, asiantuntijana ja kouluttajana Suomessa. Koulutukset järjestetään Helsingissä.

Cinema 4D (basic)

Cinema 4D perusversio on erittäin edullinen, kun tarvitset lisäksi 3d-mallinnusohjelman vaikkapa Archicadin rinnalle tai muuhun perus 3d-käyttöön. Siinä on mukana myös Bodypaint 3d teksturointiohjelma. Bodypaint 3D 4 full licence on saatavana myös ns. Standalone versiona jolloin se on samanhintainen kuin Cinema 4D+BP4 eli 685 € +alv22%. Perusversiossa ei ole mukana Advanced Render renderointimoduulia.

Cinema 4D perusversio

Mikäli käyttösi on vaativampaa kuin harrastuskäyttö niin suosittelen vähintäänkin XL Bundle versiota tai Studio versiota. XL Bundleen kuuluvat seuraavat moduulit: Advanced Render, MOCCA, Thinking Particles ja Net Render (3:lle koneelle).

Cinema 4D XL Bundle

Cinema 4D Studio Bundle (täysversio)

Cinema 4D Studio versioon kuuluvat kaikki Moduulit:

• Advanced Render
• MOCCA
• MoGraph
• Thinking Particles
• HAIR
• Dynamics
• Sketch and Toon
• NET Render

Lisätietoa Bundle versioista:

http://www.maxon.net/pages/products/editions/bundles/bundles_e.html

Cinema 4D:tä käyttää Suomessa mm. MTV3 kanava ja monet muut.
Kansainvälisten asiakkaiden lista:
http://www.maxon.net/pages/contact/reference_com_e.php