Cinema 4D – #CubePong

Cube pong is a twitter thing where a .c4d file is passed around and each new person adds their own little tweaks to the file. It is fun and challenging both. here are the first two renders from #CubePong 2012

round one

round two

 

Cinema 4D Tutorial – Robot Arm Final

I don’t think I have ever laughed in a tutorial, but this one has me laughing when I go to test the animation. I hope you have enjoyed the series, I hope that you have also learned a little. In this final part we add the dynamics to the robot arm and set-up a scene to test it. Post comments and let me see yours.

In this final part we add the dynamics to the Robot Arm and test it in an animation.

 

Cinema 4D Tutorial – Robot Arm part four a

Here we are the almost final part to the Robot arm tutorial. I hope you have learned a lot in this series. I will be doing a four b very soon, I forgot to ad the dynamics to the scene to allow the arm to interact with things. In part four we build the claw, using an IK chain, and a mograph cloner object. Post an example of your work in the comments. Any questions? ask in the comments.

In part four a we will build the claw for the robot arm, using an IK chain, a constraint tag, and a mograph cloner. In 4.b we will add the dynamics real quick.

 

Thank you, and News

I want to take a moment to thank all those that have “liked” or “followed” my Blog recently THANK YOU. Feel free to drop me a line by way of a comment to a post. All comments need to be approved so if you don’t see it right away do not fret, I get to them pretty quick. I hope you are enjoying the content so far. Part four of the Robot Arm tutorial should be up soon, in the meantime Motioneers has a new quick tip up, check it out, and also The Pixel Lab posted a new tutorial today, I have not seen it yet but Joren does us right so I am sure it is informative. Also stay tuned to The Pixel Lab for the results of the Modeling contest, We should be hearing soon who won their choice of one of his model packs, and also who will have their models in a 5 model pack that will be given away. Motioneers and The Pixel Lab can be found on the right of my blog under Recommended sites. One last thing, Keep an eye on The Gorilla! Big plans this week for him.

 

Color

color plays a huge role in the elements of design. Color can guide the viewer of your work or, draw the eye to important words with red text. A piece that uses a color scheme instead of just using your favorite colors all just mashed into a project is much more appealing to the eye. Give things emphasis with contrasting color.

below are some sites with information you will find useful in the study of color.

I am in no way affiliated to any of these sites, these are just sites that will get you started in the right direction for learning more about color.

Color

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color

Color theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_theory

Other color resources

http://www.colormatters.com/color-and-design/basic-color-theory – I really like the way this site uses graphics, and information to explain color. navigate the pages to dive into other areas of COLOR.

http://www.worqx.com/color/index.htm – A site that has some useful information about color.

http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html – sites like this one let you choose a scheme, then you can take a small screen capture of the colors that may have the hexadecimal # for that color, bring this screen cap into your software you are using and sample colors from it.

Watch how here.

This is a video that is part of my Blog, it shows how to use a color swatch from a website and use it in a program like after effects. the full blog post can be seen on my Blog https://itvteacher.wordpress.com/

Color picker swatches and palettes.

http://r0k.us/graphics/SIHwheel.html#spot – a Java plug-in color tool

http://www.colourlovers.com/tools – colourlovers has some free color tools that are handy.

http://colorschemedesigner.com/ – a color scheme maker

http://kuler.adobe.com/ – one of my all time favorites. You can also download and use the adobe air Kuler app. I am pretty sure you must be online to use the air app though.

http://www.colorblender.com/ –

 

Community News- Design, Motion Graphics news

Video Copilot seems to be gearing up to release Element, the new Plugin that will knock the sox off the After Effects community. Of course this is just me thinking this, but he is up pretty early today?!?

 Free model pack at The Pixel Lab, Joren lines up another great free model pack for us. Make sure you check out his Blog for great tutorials, And some amazing packages they have put together.

Great insights to Creative CLOUD from John Nack.

Tell the world About Me…. or about you anyway, at About Me Dot Com.

The GreyscaleGorilla has a new tutorial out, check it out HERE and get your learning on. “In this tutorial, I try to recreate some of the effects in Ion’s beautiful Spherical Animation using the Cloner, Step Effector, Atom Array, and Cel Renderer. I also show you how to do the final composite in After Effects.”

 Cameron Moll On a recent trip to Newcastle took some footage and made THIS video. Very peaceful. Shot on a Cannon 7D

Simple colors, simple contrast. Great piece. Check out this info motion graphic work. https://vimeo.com/40716607