Cinema 4D Tutorials

Creating Materials
Learn how to create a stunning effect material.

Modeling a Hand Part 2
A great modeling tutorial.

Modeling a Hand Part 1
In this tutorial you are going to build a human hand with CINEMA 4D.

Light Posts for Walls and Streets
In this tutorial, we will go through how you can construct a wall lamp and a street lamp using lofts, booleans, and genlocking.

Creating Detailed Buildings for City Scene
At this point, we will focus on making the city more realistic looking by creating a few more detailed buildings. These detailed buildings will stand out against the plain buildings in our animation. They will be placed closer to the camera to give the effect that, as you get closer to any building in the city, you will see greater detail. It is unnecessary to create each building in detail since the camera will not be zooming close to every building in the city. At the end of this animation, the camera will zoom in close to a door on building. Since the camera moves in extremely close to this final building, it should be more detailed than any other building in the scene. The following tutorials will focus on the creation of a much more detailed building with landscaping and the animation procedure.

How to Create City Blocks
One simple way to create a cityscape is to model a few simple buildings and duplicate them several times to achieve the illusion of a large city. This tutorial takes a look at how to create and position buildings suitable for a realistic, low-polygon city scene. In following cityscape tutorials, we will add greater detail to the city and create a fly-through animation.

City Scene
This tutorial will show you how to combine your city blocks with your detailed buildings and set your city up for a camera animation. It will also go through a few ways to landscape the grounds where the camera will zoom in close.

Hand Project
Now that you have a hand built you can add bone deformers to control the geometry.

Smells Like Almonds
This tutorial will demonstrate how to use SLA to create an anisotropic material such asvelvet.

Catching a Soft Body
This tutorial will cover the steps to create a bowl which can be moved around in realtime while catching a soft body.

Model, Texture, and Render an Interior Scene With VRay
You will learn how to create and render a realistic interior scene in Cinema 4D and Vray.

Join, trim and add watermark to the video using Quick Time Pro
In this tutorial I will outline some of the nice features that come with Quick Time Pro. You will learn how to join and trim videos as well as how to add watermarks using Properties window.

Create a Detailed Zune HD MP3 Player in Cinema 4D
In this multi-part, intermediate to advanced level tutorial, you will learn the many techniques needed to model a Microsoft Zune HD. Setting up your workspace for your reference images and using them as a guide, modeling complex shapes from boxes, and polygon pushing will all be covered, and can be adapted to virtually any 3D package.

3D Text
Create a 3d text effect. This 3D text tutorial includes everything, so with proper materials and lightning.

Modeling of a chess queen
Learn how to quickly model a simple chess queen piece using only one spline and one nurbs option. Very handy for alot of basic pieces and for those just learning cinema 4D.

Cinema 4d Tutorials: Sketch and Toon Cigarette
Sketch and Toon module allow you to create cartoon like renders very easily and effectively.

Cinema 4d Tutorials: Dynamics
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a basic object interaction using very simple objects.

Cinema 4d Tutorials: Grass
This tutorial shows how to make 3d grass in Cinema 4d 11, but can also be made in earlier versions of the application.

Cinema 4d Tutorials: Pen
In this Cinema 4d tutorial I will show you how to make a pen. We will use such Nurbs as Loft NURBS, HyperNURBS, Sweep NURBS. I will show you how to use these objects to achieve desired effects.

Cinema 4d Tutorials: Chair
In this Cinema 4d Tutorial I'll show you how to make a chair.