cmiVFX Releases New MAXON CINEMA 4D [COLOR=PaleTurquoise]ADVANCED PARTICLES[/COLOR]
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Princeton, NJ (June 5, 2013) cmiVFX has released Maxon C4D Advanced Particles with Sam Welker. In life many of the biggest things are made of millions of smaller things. A lot of these smaller things are particles. In motion graphics and visual effects you’ll often find that adding a lot of variation and detail can really add a visual value to your final result. Particles are especially helpful in this scenario and can be quite powerful. Maxon Cinema 4D is a useful tool, but where it’s furthest strengths lie with particles are found in bringing in 3rd party tools. This series will take advantage of incredible tools such as TurbulenceFD by Jawset, PShade from plugins4cinema4d.com, and TP Partio by 908Productions found on aescripts.net . These tools will be necessary to fully experience this series but don’t be afraid. These are some of the most powerful particle plugins mentor Sam Welker has integrated into his daily workflow and will continue to be useful for your part icle work.
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Short Description
This series will show you how to create particle animations driven by smoke simulation and rendered rapidly with the Cinema 4D hair renderer. Then you will learn how to cache your simulations with a useful tool called TP Partio. You will learn how to use PShade as an alternative renderer as well. After watching this series you should be comfortable using these three 3rd party tools* together with thinking particles within Maxon Cinema4D to create marvelous and organic visual effect simulations.
NOTICE TO VIEWERS
(3 third party plugins are required to follow along with this lesson. All included plugins are available as FREE or TRIAL versions: PShade, TurbulenceFD, TP Partio)
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Chapter Descriptions
Introduction
In this chapter we introduce the series as well as the author. This is the exciting part where we get to see what we will be creating.
Finding the Plugins (See Vimeo Video above)
Here we will discuss the three 3rd party plugins that we will cover in this series. We will look them up online and discuss why they’re useful, and this time you can see this part FREE online one our Vimeo and Youtube pages! (Vimeo link above and on website)
We also put direct links to the items in the page below for your convenience.
Simulating Fluids in TurbulenceFD
Here we will simulate smoke with TurbulenceFD which we can later use to advect the positions of thinking particles. This process will use lower resolution previews then higher resolution finals.
Advecting Thinking Particles with TurbulenceFD Fluids
This chapter covers how to simulate thinking particles with TurbulenceFD. This is a simpler process compared to most thinking particle setups. We start with a smaller amount of particles and go up from there till we are happy with the results we are getting.
Rendering Thinking Particles with Hair
In this video we get to explore rendering thinking particles with hair. We use noise textures and variations in the hair material to create some nice breaking up of the particles.
Rendering Thinking Particles with PShade
In this chapter we cover the basics of a very useful plugin called PShade. This tool will allow use to render particles conditionally controlled by particle attributes. The age and speed of particles will control the size and color of the particles in this case.
Wrapping Up
We thank you for your time and conclude the series by covering what we have seen and learnt. We hope you have enjoyed the series at this point and wish you well.
About the Instructor
Sam Welker is a young and avid Cinema 4D artist. He started using the program in 2010 after using After effects for a short period of time and fell in love you could say. After countless hours of learning, testing, playing around, and eventually taking things seriously Welker learned the ins and outs of Cinema 4D as well as the business enough to start professionally working in early 2012. Welker studied at Full Sail University as well as Boise State University in Idaho. He currently resides in Southern California for the time being. Welker loves storytelling, meeting new people, going on adventures, and skiing to list a few. This high energy and enthusiastic mentor will always get excited about particles and Xpresso.
You can learn more about him around the web by following him on his blog, twitter, or Facebook page where he shares free training, presets (free and paid), and more.
His blog is found here:
http://www.thinkparticle.com/
Twitter
http://twitter.com/samwelkertv
Facebook
http://facebook.com/thinkparticle
LINKS
PShade
http://plugins4cinema4d.com/pshade.html
908Productions TP Partio
http://aescripts.com/tp-partio/
Jawset TurbulenceFD
http://www.jawset.com/try/
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