Tutorial Details
- Software: Maxon Cinema4D
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Completion Time: 30mins
- Tutorial Files: None
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
In today’s tutorial, AntwanFX covers how to first model, then texture and finally light and render a freshly picked cherry in Cinema4D. Serving as a great introduction to a full workflow, this tutorial is highly recommended for anyone switching to Cinema from a different app, or just starting out in 3D. Let’s take a look…
In this basic tutorial, I’ll show how simple it is to create a cool looking cherry from scratch!
Step 1
We’ll start by creating a Hexahedron Sphere with 6 segments and a 100m radius.
It should look like this :
Step 2
Now make it editable by pressing c on your keyboard. With that done, and the object selected, apply a Hyper NURBS object to our sphere. Finally grab the top point on the sphere and lower it as shown below :
Step 3
Now we are going to grab the two points shown in the picture below and lower them down a little in order to curve the top section of our cherry (make sure not to move them down more than the middle point in the previous step, however).
It should look like this
Step 4
Now use the Spline tool to create a spline like the one in the picture below. This will define the shape of our stalk!
Step 5
Now create a Circle using the settings shown below :
Step 6
With both our circle and spline in place, add a Sweep Nurbs to the scene and place both the spine and the circle inside of it. If your result isn’t what you expected, try changing the order of the circle and the spline in the group.
It should look like this
Step 7
With our main cherry shape complete, it’s time to get to work on those water drops! Create a new sphere and lower the radius to 6, the segments to 1 and make sure that Render Perfect is checked ON. This allows us to work with lower-resolution geometry within the viewport (which saves on RAM and makes the project easier to navigate) which then becomes full-res at render-time – very useful!
Step 8
Create a MoGraph Cloner object and drop the sphere object inside of it. With that done, apply these settings to the cloner.
At this point, your scene should look something like this:
However, once you hit the render button you see that our future drops of water become full-resolution and look like full spheres!
Step 9
Go to the MoGraph tab and under Random Effector apply the settings shown below, making our drops of water look a little bit more random.
Step 10
Our cherry object is now completely modelled, so it’s time to move on to scene setup! Create two Area Light objects and position them as shown in the image below :
Use the following settings for both of the lights:
Intensity:25%
Shadow: Raytraced
Details – Show in Reflection Checked
Visibility Multiplier: 600%
Step 11
Now create a Sky object and add a
Step 12
Create a Background object, and add in a new material for it. Go to the material’s Color channel and apply a gradient for a texture. You can obviously change this to whatever you want, but the settings I used are shown below :
Step 13
It’s finally time to add in the materials for the cherry itself! We’ll be creating the red cherry material first, and then duplicating it and changing the color to create the stalk material. It should look something like the material shown below. I’ve also created a material for our water drops, and applied it to the MoGraph object.
Render Settings
You can set up the main render settings however you wish – make the shot your own! The important thing is to ensure that GI is turned on so that the sky/area lights combo has the correct effect.
Final Result
And that’s it! Thanks for reading and if you have any questions just let me know.
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Thanks for this!
Sometimes simple is great.
I have a problem with the part of the cloner object. The little sphere doesn’t duplicate in the surface of the cherry. I don’t know why.
nice! easy to understand.
thanks for contributing to the c4d community :)!!
Nice tutorial, but this drops are REALLY bizarre.
You can see the image shown here and see a better result that you can achieve using the same techniques used here, with a little bit more tweaking and quality boosting
http://antwandesign.com/modeling-a-cherry-tutorial/
Even in this link, these drops are just creep. Drops aren’t just tiny balls perfectly rounded attached at the object. But yeah, the material and the lights looks good on this one.
I agree the drops don’t look right in either pic. Way too many and way too big. Even if you are basing off of a reference image, that doesn’t mean it will look good. Smaller drops in both cases could look better.
Probably because there are soooo many, and some are almost microscopic while others are huge, also the fact that theyre perfect spheres.
Try a metaball instead of sphere? =]
Wow, someone is being paid for this?! What a cheap tutorial.
Agreed, the drops look pretty goofy.
A little bit odd really.
Have had a few better quality tutorials rejected and other stuff in here has a little bit higher quality also.
Same. I submitted a proposal for a tutorial for the movie title series that came with project files at multiple steps along the way, and detailed c4d/ae processes.. Never got a response
This comes almost directly from greyscalegorilla :(
Yup pretty much……
How so?
We have discussed this with Matt (the editor) and NO, the tutorial is not like the one in greyscale gorilla! The only thing in common is the object Cherry! This is a beginner tutorial, thats why it looks easy to some.
If you stick the mograph cloner with the water drops into a metaball, the drops that are close together will merge and look a bit less like soap bubles.
also a noise texture on the cherry could help
Nice tip, but the final outcome doesn’t look as good as this one in your site.
Anyways good quick tip :)
regards
Stefan
I must admit that this is a completely ripoff from CMIVFX (http://cmivfx.com/tutorials/view/144/Ultimate+Learning+System+Vol+5)
Just poor executed..
I love tutpluts, but the “cinema 4d section” is just very bad…
Please watch the DVD first and then comment because on that DVD aren’t shown any techniques on creating the cherries. There are only rendering techniques :)
wow, another gsg ripoff. plus the drops are huge.
I had the same problem with clones. All in all, this tutorial sucked major ass. Cloning did not work, the water drops are lame as hell. Could not find the GI for the render. My result was very bad. What a waste of time and thanks for nothing.
Go back to Step 8 and make sure that you have your MoGraph settings correct and make sure that the little sphere is inside of the MoGraph Object.
There is a G.I. tutorial here on cg.tutsplus, check it out :)
I got a problem with the clones too. Not all the option on Cloner Object are available for me.
Object Properties > Object: HyperNurbs (?) , Up Vector, Mode, Seed and Count.
Did I miss something? Cause i could not find none of this here, look: http://migre.me/3K6SC
help anyone?
Thanks for a quick fun tutorial, picked up a thing or two :)
For cheezburger and Sarah :
I had the same problem with the cloner object, it’s not very well explained : In fact you have to take your first “HyperNurbs” and drag it into the “object” field of the Cloner object. It worked for me.
I agree with the others, this tutorial, even if it’s for beginners, isn’t very … well … you understand my feelings.
I Found this really hard to follow, not enough information, not all of us know every option, and where to find the different tools, im new to 75% of the techniques used in this demonstration, and sadly im stuck on the “material’s Color channel”, where could i find this option?
Thanks.
no worries, got it. :D
some of you guys are lame as hell, whining bitches! I did this tutorial, though I’m new to c4d, somehow I managed to find all the stuff – yep, Atnwan could explain better applying nurbs, but hey! I made water drops smaller, added noise to cherry and… voila, it works. Thx mate for this tut :)
Absolutely brilliant! The look is really fresh, simple, and fun. Great job. :)
its like that in the screen grab, but he just left that part out of the steps:( after i took that step on my own, i looked back at it and realized he just forgot to mention it.
Amazing simple and useful tutorial, sorry for the people who couldn’t apply it ;) practice more
wow.. People like to whine, all those 10 year olds that just cracked it offline and think they are the stuff… so annoying…