Tutorial Details
- Software: Maxon Cinema 4D
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Completion Time: 2-3 hours
- Tutorial Files: None
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
In this tutorial Clinton Jones will demonstrate how to model his version of Clank, from the hit PlayStation game Ratchet and Clank, using Cinema 4D. You will learn many different techniques, from the basic steps needed to model the head and body, to the more complicated functions needed to add some pretty serious detail to stay true to the character.
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Thanks for this nice tutorial! It took a while to publish it though…
i really have problems with these videos! its soo annoying :( instead of it taking 20mins i end up spending an hour trying to get it to play, it loads a small bit at a time and i need to keep skipping ahead and then skipping back for it to load another few seconds… anyone else having this problem?
Hi Bryan,
Sorry to hear you’re having some trouble with the player. Can you download the videos ok?
Thanks,
Matt
U can simply download it, and watch it without any problems
Yes, the player is really bad but you can always download the file and watch it offline.
I always download videos here, it so much easier than the annoying video player on this site.
Yup, I do exactly the same and have been doing since the site started posting screencasts.
great!
can you upload your ref image?
Amazing man. Thank you so much for this tutorial.
Why is the reference images never attached? I tried to find the images on google, but no luck
Yeah it would be nice if guys at cgtuts also provide the ref image. Without it, tutorials seems a bit, you know just a bit worthless.
Great tutorial, hope to see more of our tutorials soon!
“Your” not “our” – sorry about that!
AWESOME.. Thanx :)
very very cool tutorials. Thank you very much!!!!
Finally a decent C4D tutorial. I’m looking forward to this one.
Can you plz upload the referance image?
I need to watch this, thanks for you effort Clinton :)
Thanks a lot for this tuto.
I hesitate a lot to add the following comment because it’s a free beginner tutorial and you said in the video your are still learing (so am I). But just for information, from what I learn your method for modeling is the very wrong way of do it. You finish with a totally mess up polygon topology. It cause you a lot of trouble like in the top part of the head and so on. If you have started with an even topology for the head you can knife, extrude etc to create these pieces from one single object. And in the end with your kind of model it’s a nightmare to texture it properly.
Hope you understand my bad english, I just want to open discuss, don’t want to be rude (not easy with my limited vocabulary).
thanks again for your time.
No I TOTALLY agree with you. I’ve never had any training, and I don’t know how to model “correctly” I guess you could say. Like I said, “sill learning” you know. But trust me, i’m with you, I need to learn how to do these things. It feels like i’m doing it VERY strangely. But hey, looks like him in the end! =D
Hi
I’m a beginner too. I watched the first three video’s and I can’t hardly wait to make my own version. I didn’t begin yet because I was highly curious about how you do these things in C4D and I wanted to first watch all the video’s to get an overall idea of the process.
Now, I am also very interested in what Raoul said … I do know that there are some things about polygon topology that indeed are important considering modeling.
It would be a blast if someone could add a comprehensive video to explain the difference of approach. People could learn so much from that …
Anyway … great tutorial that showed me tools and methods I didn’t use yet. I hope to see a lot of new C4D tutorials like this one.
Keep it up!
really great tutorial…but having problems to watch it or download it…at less for me…
SH*T 8 vids of like 20 minutes and this is just day 1! Awesome man! :D
Wow, looks pretty good. Will definitely check this out.
Thanks Clinton Jones.
Hey Tomas, thanks man. I remember seeing one of your tuts. You use c4D as well correct? Do you know how to bone and rig in C4D?
Great looking model. Can you upload the Reference files. Thanks!
i didnt see the videos but i LOVE THIS SITE ..
thx a a lot for enriching the Cinema 4D with ur cool tuts .. specially with the lack of C4D tuts online
i love u guys ..
thx a lot from the origin on Arabia – Republic Of Yemen
OK, now thats something I was waiting for. I mean yeah! we needed some C4D modelling tuts. Thanks for listening guys!
can you tell us how u lit the final product image at the top of the page? Thanks
Yes, in a latter tutorial I will explain lighting, texturing and rendering.
It’s a very nice tutorial, but I would like the reference image, I can’t seem to find it.
Clinton,
Thank you so much for this free tutorial!
It has been an invaluable resource for someone like myself learning C4D. All of the techniques you have shown will be so useful for further design and creation – which is what I believe to be the point of these tuts.
Here is a small png of where I’m at with your tutorial so far:
As for the reference image that is so in demand on these posts – What I did was enlarge the video screen of Clinton’s tutorial when he’s showing the sketch image, did a screen capture, into photoshop and adjusted levels, size, etc and there you go. No hunting required! ;)
Thanks again Clinton,
Brian
Clinton, great job for a first time. And in spite of maybe some alternate ways of doing things, as suggested by others, (some not very graciously I might add) I learned a great deal from watching your tuts. Please keep it up. I look forward to the upcoming ones.
Hey Clinton,
Great beginner tut you made!
I am also a beginner in c4d and slowly getting there…
if i may give you one advice in the interest of preventing rsi, use shortkeys 1,2 and 3 to move, zoom, and orbit in cinema, also F1 to F5 lets you skip viewports and E,R,T are the 3 main tools move, rotate and transform.
keep it up!
Great tut so far have learned a ton!! I also just took a snap shot of your reference and it worked great!
Hey Clinton,
Nice Tutorials i like it but i want this Blueprint please i searchedbut i didnt found anything
please put the URL of this Image ……………
Thanks for this tutorial
Thanks!!
I can’t wait for the next part :P
Hey guys
For anyone who needs the clank reference image, you can simply print screen the video on full screen and Voila!
And tnx Clinton for the tut.
Awesome tut!! I went ahead and finished the arms, legs, and added materials to it!! Link below.
http://s835.photobucket.com/albums/zz275/tcbrooks06/?action=view¤t=clank.jpg
I’ve been looking for some good modeling tuts, and this is perfect. Thank you so much for putting in the time and effort!
here you go the ref image :P
http://nl.tinypic.com/r/2cet3ya/7
enjoy :p
Thanks for reference image!
guys this tut is AWESOME .. i conider it as the BEST C4D MODELING TUTORIAL EVER ..
but .. where r the other parts (days) .. i m waitin like hell 4 them
ur biggest fan in Arabia :
Basel Mousa
Thanks a bunch for the tutorial man! I must say it helped me quite a bit and it was very fun. Also, your explanations are awesome so don’t worry about it! (P.s. there are some moment you get kinda confused, don’t sweat it, it’s pretty funny haha, I’m sure nobody minds).
Well, hope to see more tutorials from you dude, cheers! (:
great tut man :) but where is day 2 :(
AWESOME TUT!!!
In the beginning when you paste ref image you sad ctrl+v shorctut, but i guess it was alt+v :P
Love this tut!!!
I’m curious since it says day in title then does that mean there is a day 2?
Hi,
tnx for tutroial. Can u tell me, where i can find day2 of this tutorial??
Thanks for the tutorial . Here is my work
http://www.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=ROBOT+FERAILLE#/d3c0k22
Love this tutorial but there’s no way of me getting the reference since I’m not a subscribed member of cg tuts+. It really sucks to try to do something when one can’t even afford subscription… :(
Video 1 is down.. Cant download or watch online.. Can someone help?
Hey AC,
Sorry for the slow reply!
I just checked it out and the video seems to be working fine now. Sometimes it’s just a glitch with Blip.tv, so can you give it another try?
Cheers!
Hi,
Thanks for this great tutorial, it has been a great help for me since i didn’t have any experience with Cinema 4D.
It took me about 3 days to finish it and i started on the first day i received this programme.
So thank again for this tut and your clear explanation of the whole progress.
Btw looking forward to your day 2 tutorial of this if you’re planning on making one :D
This tut is amazing !
You are awesome !
But Lsn , There is one problem , You Didn’t Upload The Reference Image .
Please Upload the image so i can work on the tutorial , i really want to do it , but i can’t without an image , i looked throughout google but i couldn’t find it ….
So Please Dude Just Send Me A Link !
Sorry Dude ,, Just Saw A Comment Above with the Link..
I Apologize ,
Loay
Note : This Is Amazing Thanks Dude
hey guys,i complete this character
whats your idea,please?!
http://devil.6te.net/files/VRobat.jpg
Where can i find that particular reference picture from clank ?? tnx
Where is part 2 ??
i am having alot of trouble on the feet… any help would be appreciated.
Please! When will we have the right to the second part! I stay on my end! Otherwise thank you for this great tutorial! Understandable for a beginner like me! Sorry for my broken English I used a translator
for those who have not found the link of the image :
http://www.ratchet-galaxy.com/images/rac1/artworks/Insomniac_Games/characters/Clank.jpg
Have a good day :=)
video 2 is not working, i can’t watch it, i can’t download it, can you help me plz?
Great tutorial so far! Please fix Video 2 I need to finish this!
Where’s part two :(