Comments on: Cinema 4D: Photo mosaic

By: ronn Trevino

ronn Trevino — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:01:10 +0000

Grischa
Ive tried that Ayato tutorial in the past and it was a pain.. your workflow and solution is simple and effective. nice touch with the delay effector. Ive taken a few classes with tim as the instructor at fxphd.com hes the bees knees. Grischa I look forward to trying your technique. I wonder how difficult it would be to add moving video to some of those frames? Guess I’ll have to give it a shot.

By: Grischa Theissen

Grischa Theissen — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:22:32 +0000

Thanks t_dusy!
You’re very welcome.

By: t_dusy

t_dusy — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:08:32 +0000

Thanks guys

i am new bie in motion works thanks for the tutorial awesome

Thank You Grischa Theissen
Dushyanthan (Sri Lanka)

By: Grischa Theissen

Grischa Theissen — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:12:13 +0000

You should be able to apply a video to the material and use that as the texture on the plane. Just make the plane the video size.
Unfortunately you are probably not able to use PLAYING video as the source of the mosaic. But you are able to use still frames of video in your mosaic. Just check the MacOsAix settings.

By: Pierre S

Pierre S — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:25:04 +0000

did anyone try with video? is it even possible? anyway great tutorial.

By: Grischa Theissen

Grischa Theissen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:34:23 +0000

I understand what you are trying to achieve but at the moment I don’t know any solution to that.
There is probably a way in Photoshop to generate a grid of Photos with exact tiles and rows.

By: Kamran

Kamran — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:06:08 +0000

Hello JJ Cyr
you can use each file only once, just click on the any image you don’t like it and change to any other image you like. the problem is you need a lot of patience.
good luck…

By: JJ Cyr

JJ Cyr — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:58:04 +0000

Are you aware of any other software that might be able to assemble a whole directory of photos into a grid of photos and then put them together into one huge photo without making a mosaic? The big grid photo works great because Cinema 4D can break it apart. I would love to use this effect on a directory of photos and not have to make a mosaic.

The problem with the mosaic software is I want to use every file in my directory and use each file only once in the scene. If I use the mosaic software it may not pick every photo and it may put some of the photos in the grid photo more than once. In my animation I just want to put all my photos into the 3D space and fly through them. I don’t want the photos to re-assemble into one big photo.

Let me know if this makes sense. If not I will try to explain it better.

Thanks,
JJ

By: Grischa Theissen

Grischa Theissen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:37:29 +0000

No worries.
Good luck with that!

By: Kamran

Kamran — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:05:58 +0000

Hello Crischa
Yes you got it right. sorry about the confusion. it’s wonderful, I want to use your tutorial to make a nice opening for a video that I’ll edit for my wife’s valentine day.

Best to you,
Kamran

By: Grischa Theissen

Grischa Theissen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:44:01 +0000

Hi Kamran,
I am not sure if I understand your question right.
The PolyFX in combination with effectors, in my chase the random effector rips the picture apart. Each Pic is on a separate segment if the segment setup match the segments of the mosaic photo (etc. 80×80).

By: Kamran

Kamran — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:27:10 +0000

Nicely done Grischa. I paid attention and I saw in your tutorial the pictures are not separated from each other like the final render you showed, I mean each picture it was not separated from others in edges.
Is this just a problem in video or anything else?
The most interesting thing about this effect is to see each picture individually when we move the camera between them and then they come together and make the final pic as you know.
this is just a question that I have and I want to make sure I can separate the pictures from the right edges.

Thank you for your time and art.
Best Regards,
Kamran

By: JJ Cyr

JJ Cyr — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:15:22 +0000

I just found the tutorial on the motion blur.

Thanks,
JJ

By: JJ Cyr

JJ Cyr — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:11:21 +0000

What setting did you use for the motion blur for the images that are close to the camera? Did you use object motion blur or vector motion blur?

Thanks, great tutorial!
JJ

By: Grischa Theissen

Grischa Theissen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:12:21 +0000

Hi Dan!
Thanks.
Never thought of this scenario. Set everything up like in the tutorial and then only animate the minimal/maximal values in the effector tab of the random effector. That will do the trick.

There is probably another way. Would be nice to know if anyone has a clue?! Make the random effector not so random.