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Adam Trachtenberg

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masking out part of a material for compositing
by Jake Martin 2 hours ago
Hi I am rendering out a globe. So I have one big world texture on a sphere. I need to composite in a plague spreading across Africa. So I have a mask for the parts I need. My question is where do I pu
Re: masking out part of a material for compositing
by Adam Trachtenberg 2 hours ago
I would create the alpha and then do a separate render with just your globe and cameras to get the object buffer.
C4d R15? General Question
by Tim Vaughan 2 days ago
Hi, I'm curious if anyone who visited or have spoken with Maxon recently know of any plans of a r15 release or not I'm not looking for any violation of NDA's or whatever, just a straight answer. I was
Re: C4d R15? General Question
by Adam Trachtenberg 10 hours ago
Yeah, it can be frustrating but Maxon has a pretty strict policy of not announcing anything until they're close to release. The reason they do it that way is that they don't want to promise anything u
Prepping hair... but its not in the shot?
by Ilya Osovets 1 day ago
Wondering is there a setting or technic I can use to speed up my render. My issue is I have hair in my scene that I'm using to create grass. What I'm noticing is when my camera has passed the part wit
Re: Prepping hair... but its not in the shot?
by Adam Trachtenberg 1 day ago
Cinema generally doesn't consider whether generators like Hair are in the camera cone, so you'd just have to animate the Hair object on off manually.
Render Seperate Layers not object buffer
by Tim Rice 2 days ago
Hi, So i'm setting up a scene where i can use after effects to mask text while keeping the background. Using object buffers won't work because it will leave a hole in the background. The only solution
Re: Render Seperate Layers not object buffer
by Adam Trachtenberg 1 day ago
As you figured, rendering twice is the only option.
Mograph for cut-paper animation effect?
by Dave Wittekind 4 days ago
I'm making a cut-paper style video short with After Effects with sort of a 3D shadowbox look, but for this one part, I'm thinking Cinema 4D may be the better tool for the job. Here's the scene: a smal
Re: Mograph for cut-paper animation effect?
by Adam Trachtenberg 3 days ago
MoGraph is well suited for this. You could animate the cutouts popping up, or animate their visibility, and then use a random effector with the time offset parameter to have them pop up at random. Man
File: popup crowd
by Adam Trachtenberg 3 days ago
c4d file using mograph random effector's time offset to pop up clones. http: f1.creativecow.net 6006 popup-crowd
Xpresso Question - Spline Ends Connected to Two Separate, Moving Points
by Per Sverre Wold-Hansen 2 weeks ago
I need to have a "balloon" high up on a tether (spline) being towed behind a moving, rolling ship. My plan is trying to use a hair Tag (Spline dynamics)on the spline to make the tether move realistica
Re: Xpresso Question - Spline Ends Connected to Two Separate, Moving Points
by Adam Trachtenberg 6 days ago
You could tie both ends to different objects. That would just require two constraint tags. But I think it would be harder to create a realistic-looking animation that way.
how to 'bulge' a group of fracture objects?
by sergio juyak 7 days ago
I have a cube chopped up into fragments (blue image). I want the fragments to sort of bulge out as if something is erupting. I threw all my fragments into a fracture object and then experimented with
Re: how to 'bulge' a group of fracture objects?
by Adam Trachtenberg 6 days ago
A genius named Yader has produced a tutorial that addresses this exact issue here: https: vimeo.com 34757109 Because your object is oriented differently you would have to change it up in some respects
mapping satellite imagery with terrain distortion
by Greg Neumayer 1 week ago
I have a client interested in doing a fly-through of real-world locations. Does anyone have advice on production work-flow My first thought is to use Digital Globe imagery, hoping they also sell a gre
Re: mapping satellite imagery with terrain distortion
by Adam Trachtenberg 1 week ago
If your deadline is a little ways off this plugin would be a godsend: http: cinemaplugins.com c4d-plugins demearth
Polygon object insists on "floating"
by Kelly Burns 1 week ago
Hello, I'm trying to get this yellow shape to sit on the light blue platform shape and actually, it is penetrating into that light blue shape a bit, but still appears to be floating. The attached pic
Re: Polygon object insists on "floating"
by Adam Trachtenberg 1 week ago
Looks like a soft shadow problem. There are a number of ways to address it: 1. Use higher resolution shadow maps; 2. Adjust the shadow bias setting; 3. Use area shadows instead of soft shadows (recomm
File: sound controls clone count via Xpresso
by Adam Trachtenberg 1 week ago
c4d file sound controls clone count via Xpresso http: f1.creativecow.net 5978 sound-controls-clone-count-via-xpresso
File: sound controls clone count
by Adam Trachtenberg 1 week ago
c4d file using a sound effector to control clone count. http: f1.creativecow.net 5977 sound-controls-clone-count
File: Popcorn
by Adam Trachtenberg 1 week ago
c4d file using proximal with cloner http: f1.creativecow.net 5976 popcorn
File: Spline Dynamics and Xpresso to attach a weather balloon to a ship
by Adam Trachtenberg 2 weeks ago
c4d file Spline Dynamics and Xpresso to attach a weather balloon to a ship http: f1.creativecow.net 5973 spline-dynamics-and-xpresso-to-attach-a-weather-balloon-to-a-ship
File: controlling object visibility by rotation direction, via the memory node
by Adam Trachtenberg 3 weeks ago
c4d file controlling object visibility by rotation direction, via the memory node http: f1.creativecow.net 5920 controlling-object-visibility-by-rotation-direction-via-the-memory-node
File: Drive Clone Distribution with Shader Effector
by Adam Trachtenberg 3 weeks ago
zip file Drive Clone Distribution with Shader Effector http: f1.creativecow.net 5918 drive-clone-distribution-with-shader-effector
File: Xpresso radio buttons to control visibility
by Adam Trachtenberg 3 weeks ago
c4d file Xpresso radio buttons to control visibility http: f1.creativecow.net 5906 xpresso-radio-buttons-to-control-visibility
File: maypole concept
by Adam Trachtenberg 4 weeks ago
c4d file using spline dynamics to create a maypole effect. http: f1.creativecow.net 5881 maypole-concept
File: join spline segments
by Adam Trachtenberg 1 month ago
c4d file using the mesh spline join segments command to create a continuous spline http: f1.creativecow.net 5843 join-spline-segments
News: MAXON to Showcase New Release of CINEMA 4D at SIGGRAPH 2011
by Cow News Droid 2 years ago
3D Visionaries to Show New Features and Production Techniques at MAXON Exhibitor Booth, #447 (Newbury Park, California--August 2, 2011) MAXON Computer, the leading developer of professional 3D modelin
Re: News: MAXON to Showcase New Release of CINEMA 4D at SIGGRAPH 2011
by Adam Trachtenberg 2 years ago
Also present at the Maxon booth will be your faithfull Cow forum leader, Adam Trachtenberg, holding down on of the demo artist stations. Would love to meet some of y'all if you can make it to the show
News: MAXON Unveils CINEMA 4D Release 13
by Cow News Droid 2 years ago
Next Generation Simplifies Character Animation, Adds Stereographic Capabilities and Physical Rendering (Friedrichsdorf, Germany--August 1, 2011) Today, MAXON announced CINEMA 4D Release 13, the next g
Re: News: MAXON Unveils CINEMA 4D Release 13
by Adam Trachtenberg 2 years ago
FYI, there are 11 free videos demoing some of the new features in R13 at Cineversity (registration required): http: www.cineversity.com series index.asp spid=159
Video: Awesome type animation effect
by lyle Pascoe 2 years ago
Awesome type animation effect Any help and advice on how to recreate this effect of building up and breaking down the type will be greatly appreciated. How do you animate the letters to move independe
Re: Awesome type animation effect
by Adam Trachtenberg 2 years ago
It looks to me like the text was split up by hand. Once broken up it could be controlled by MoGraph using the Fracture object and effectors.
News: MAXON Celebrates the Release of CINEMA 4D R12 at Industry Events Around the U.S. this Fall
by Cow News Droid 3 years ago
(Newbury Park, California--September 28, 2010) MAXON Computer USA, a leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions, is pleased to announce opportunities th
Re: News: MAXON Celebrates the Release of CINEMA 4D R12 at Industry Events Around the U.S. this Fall
by Adam Trachtenberg 3 years ago
I'll be at Maxon's booth (err, table) at the Miami event. Drop by if you're going to the festival!
Growing tubes
by Cody Campbell 5 years ago
First let me say, please excuse my extreme noobness. I'm an after fx junkie trying to break into a little 3d for the things I cant accomplish in 2.5d. Having said that, I'm trying to figure out a way
Re: Growing tubes
by Adam Trachtenberg 5 years ago
Hi Cody, You're probably going to want to use a SweepNurbs object for this. Generally this works with a profile spline (a set of circles in this case) and a path spline. You drop both splines under th


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