Category: Free Cinema 4D Tutorials

3D render of huge octopus and underwater vessel against moody underwater scene created in Cinema 4D. 3

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...

3D render of dark gray octopus created in Cinema 4D with green colored nulls showing control points on octopus tentacle. 0

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...

3D render of light gray octopus tentacle created in Cinema 4D depicting details of suction cups, bumps, and ridges. 0

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

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...