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Chain Drive

 [Beginner-Intermediate] [Requires Mograph/Cloner Object/Fracture Object] In this 5 Part Series on creating a Chain Drive, we’ll explore the advantages of creating our rig using Spline and Extrude Objects, giving us greater ease while building...

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Seismograph Rig w/Controls/Tex

[Requires Mograph/Cloner Object/Matrix Object] The Seismograph Rig for Cinema 4D is fully textured and ready for animation. Just add lights, camera and action. (Some lights already in scene file!) The Seismograph Rig controls make...

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GI Rig

[Requires Mograph/Cloner Object/Matrix Object] The GI Rig for Cinema provides an alternative to the native Global Illumination in C4D. With one click, you add fantastic diffuse lighting to your scene. When used for animation,...

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Window Rig

[Placeholder Textures]   [Requires Mograph/Cloner Object/Matrix Object] The Window Rig for Cinema 4D allows you to create double-hung Windows in a variety of ways easily for your Architectural Models and renders in Cinema 4D....

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Animate Octopus Tentacles

 [Beginner-Intermediate] [Requires Mograph/Cloner Object, Dynamic Joint IK] In this 4 part series on Rigging and Animating an Octopus Tentacle, we’ll build our first tentacle using a Spline, a Cloner, a Loft Object and a Step Effector...

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Manually Animate An Octopus Tentacle

 [Beginner-Intermediate] [Requires Mograph/Tracer Object, Dynamic Joint IK] If you have followed the previous 4 Tutorials on Rigging and Animating an Octopus Tentacle, then you know how to use Spline Dynamics and the C4D Particle...

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Adding Tentacle Detail

 [Beginner-Intermediate] [Requires Mograph/Cloner Object] Once you’ve downloaded the file, Tentacle-Suction-Cups_Start.c4d_, and opened it, you’ll see some crazy geometry in the viewport. That’s what we’ll use to set up our Parallel Camera to create a...

3D wireframe image of piston, connecting rod, and crankshaft in perspective created in Cinema 4D. 0

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Simple Animated Piston Setup

 [Beginner-Intermediate] [This Setup Does Not Use Dynamic Connectors] In this Animated Piston tutorial, we’ll explore this amazingly simple setup which uses one Constraint Tag, two Keyframes, and a little bit of simple Xpresso to...