December 30, 2008 by John Dickinson  | 1,163 views | Comments (7)

This project for a Summer campaign on Foxtel Box Office was created using a combination of Maxon Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects with Zaxwerks ProAnimator and Knoll Light Factory. The simple 3D text supers were created using ProAnimator inside After Effects and the supers with characters were created in Cinema 4D and finished in After Effects. read more

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December 19, 2008 by John Dickinson  | 775 views | Comments (8)

In this 2 minute video tip learn how you can use the Link Active Object command to take control of lights and make lighting your Cinema 4D scene easier and fun.

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December 6, 2008 by John Dickinson  | 4,631 views | Comments (15)

This project is another good example of taking poor quality 4:3 vision, making it 16:9 and giving it some polish. The tools included Adobe After Effects, Zaxwerks ProAnimator, Trapcode Horizon and Shine, and Maltaannon’s Screenify effect (featured in MILG 5). The vision was treated with the Screenify effect— which adds a realistic jumbotron read more

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February 5, 2008 by John Dickinson  | 1,066 views | Comments (5)

In this video tip learn how to use the Compositing Tag and Exclusion option inside Maxon’s Cinema 4D to control the visibility of objects and reflections in your scene.

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January 25, 2008 by John Dickinson  | 1,754 views | Comments (20)

My journey with Cinema 4D continues and I have to say, I love this software. It’s so user-friendly and designer-oriented. My latest project is a logo for Wrestlemania 24. In this case no logo was supplied so I had to scan one from a magazine. It took me about 5 hours to convert it to paths in Illustrator and another 5 to model it in Cinema 4D. View final

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October 9, 2007 by John Dickinson  | 1,970 views | Comments (2)

Just completed another small project using Cinema 4D and After Effects. This is basically a TNA version of the WWE wrestling graphics posted below. It’s used by promo producers to “house” 4:3 vision. Once again a simple animation since we needed to have the vision reach its mark as quickly as possible – otherwise the opening shot of a promo may be missed. read more

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August 28, 2007 by John Dickinson  | 3,142 views | Comments (11)

My journey with Cinema 4D continues. Here’s another small job I’ve just completed using Cinema 4D and After Effects. This will be used by my client in an Avid to create promos from mostly 4×3 vision (I also supplied a matte for the vision inside the frame). Most of the vision we get supplied is pretty bad, with lot’s of compression artifacting, so rather than scaling it read more

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June 14, 2007 by John Dickinson  | 2,533 views | Comments (26)

For this project my brief was pretty open but I had to include graphic elements from the Crime and Investigation network’s existing identity along with key words and footage from various “ci” programs. The channel tagline is “look closer” so I decided to use glass panels similar to the glass slides one uses to examine specimens under a microscope. read more

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March 21, 2007 by John Dickinson  | 1,916 views | Comments (21)

For this project my client approached me with a print out of an ugly corporate chart representing the growth in Foxtel’s subscriber numbers. Considering that this information was to be placed at the start of a 3 minute corporate video I suggested that a dynamic timeline that captured viewer attention would be more suitable than a boring graph. At the start of the read more

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March 1, 2007 by John Dickinson  | 2,346 views | Comments (2)

This spot is nothing ground-breaking except for the fact that it’s the first time I used Cinema 4D on a job (special thanks to Ko Maruyama for his support). I was supplied with a PDF of a logo which I prepared in Illustrator then imported into Cinema 4D, modelled, animated and exported to After Effects where I mapped the wrestling vision to the front faces of the letters read more

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