Maxon has announced the hot new version of Cinema 4D. Read MILG6-7 host Tim Clapham’s review.

After 8 years with Foxtel Design, I recently accepted the position of Senior Designer at Foxtel Box Office – On Demand Movies, here at Foxtel in Sydney. Together with Gareth Chang and Brett Morris, both talented young designers, we get to flex our After Effects and Cinema 4D skills working on a wide range of movie graphic styles across various genres.

Over the coming months I’ll be showcasing graphics created using After Effects, Cinema 4D and a variety of plug-ins, by the team, some original and others influenced by existing spots. [Read more]

In this tutorial for Digital Juice, learn how I used the Motion Designer’s Toolkit 2 with Cinema 4D and After Effects to create a detailed background and multi-layer text effect with a dynamic sci-fi look.

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Just completed, Foxtel Box Office’s (FBO) winter campaign in Cinema 4D.

With a Stars theme, the campaign includes a competition to win a trip for 2 to Cannes Film Festival. Given the theme, I suggested we use the tagline “follow the stars”. This has the dual meaning of following the logo stars throughout the promo (which represent FBO), and mingling with movie stars on the red carpet in Cannes. [Read more]

Australian’s interested in buying or upgrading Cinema 4D this winter can get a sweet deal.

Learn key modelling skills

Follow along with Cinema 4D artist Grischa Theissen as he guides you through techniques for modelling and texturing a realistic iPod Nano. This tutorial is excellent for anyone starting out with modelling in Cinema 4D and includes key skills.

Main areas covered include: Using guide images, working with splines, Extrude Nurbs, Loft Nurbs, The Bend Deformer, The Boole Object and using multiple objects in a Boole, The Cloner Object, The Axis tool.

Total running time: 59 minutes   Watch Preview

Minimum Requirements: Cinema 4D R11. MoGraph is recommended for data connector object. After Effects CS4 is required to open the menu template project. A basic understanding of the Cinema 4D interface is also recommended but not required. The iPod menu setup is included as an After Effects project.

About your Host: Grischa Theissen is currently working as a Motion Designer in Sydney, Australia for various channels including Nickelodeon and Lifestyle. His skill set includes Motion Graphics, Compositing and 3d Animation, screenplay writing, directing and producing.

Robert Leger has a walkthrough of the voxel effect in Cinema 4D, made popular by the recent Pixel spot.

Cybergooch has a great visual reference of the noise options available in Cinema 4D.

Alexander over at amateurmedia.net has another hot tutorial. This time showing us how to replicate the Iron Man 2 look in Cinema 4D.

Being in broadcast and also being a keen Cinema 4D user, I was curious when Maxon recently released the Cinema 4D Broadcast Extension Kit. The Broadcast Extension Kit is a library of 3D Models, pre-made scenes, lighting and camera setups, video clips, audio loops and more, but unless your purchase it there is no way (that I know of until now) [Read more]

KD Video has a free Cinema 4D file of Euro falling into a glass.

Greyscale Gorilla has released a stunning new lighting kit for Cinema 4D.

In this handy tip, guest host Tim Clapham demonstrates a must-know and surprisingly simple technique for creating custom scripts in Cinema 4D. The example Tim shows where he zeros all coordinates will save you a bunch of time! Watch Tip

A handy checklist of the top 4 things users do wrong when rendering in Cinema 4D.

Amateurmedia.net has some terrific type-based Cinema 4D tutorials.

Nitroman has released Xbreaker, a handy, new script for smashing up your Cinema 4D objects. The basic version is free.

Knowing which material project type to use when using textures in Cinema 4D can be confusing. That’s why I asked my buddy Rob over at Pariah Studios to whip up this handy little tutorial! Thanks Rob! Watch tutorial

Paul Babb is the popular and charismatic CEO of Maxon USA.
In this Cinema 4D–focussed episode of Unplugged we talk about
Paul’s early days, including a time in film and on the stage;
then dive head–first into Cinema 4D and MoGraph and what makes it
just the hottest 3D software out there right now. [Read more]

The Making It Look Great Cinema 4D Bundle includes Making It Look Great 6: Design and Production Techniques for Cinema 4D and After Effects, and Making It Look Great 7: MoGraph Unleashed. Both loaded with hours of Cinema 4D, MoGraph and After Effects techniques. [Read more]