Tutorial Details
- Software Used: Cinema 4D r11.5 with advanced render and Mograph module
- Difficulty Level: Beginner
- Completion Time: 30 min - 1 hour
- Additional Files/ Plugins: Project Files
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
In this beginner/ intermediate level Cinema 4D tutorial, you will learn how to use a particle emitter and gravity from the Mograph module to create a dynamic simulation of marbles falling into a glass bowl. You will also learn a technique on how to make more glass look more convincing from the basic banji shader, and how to light your scene with global illumination.
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A basic tutorial but i learned some cool tips to get that glass shader. thanks a lot man, very good :)
awesome man ! i was waiting for this thanks.
Great tutorial, I was looking around for something no to dissimilar for my demoreel.
Bit of advice for envato, they really need to scrap this player as it doesn’t render the video out well. It has been a constant niggle for quite a while, The video doesn’t play smoothly on low end computers and high end macs.
Peace
Seen it on greyscalegorilla. Hope you didn’t get paid for this.
Yeah its similar to GreyscaleGorilla but that uses MoDynamics. This uses a Particle Emitter and Dynamics however so its definitely similar concept but different approach.
Okay I take that back, he is using MoDynamics.
From this tutorial can be learn a lot of very useful tips…Good job and keep going ;):);)
hey, even i can do a ton of such tuts man.. nick has done a lot like this you know :P… get a life dude..
Nice tuts, Sebastien. By the way are you from Quebec? I live in Montreal and I’m a screenwriter. I’m learning C4D to relax….lol. Maybe we can hook up if you’re from Mtl.
Yeahhh another tutorial….. ugh can we get some cinema 4d modeling tuts? it does more than mograph…
Yeah definitely. Plz gives us some C4D modeling tuts.
i found this tutorial very helpful and well explained. the end result looks great. a helpful introduction to emitters. thank you very much for the great tut sbastien.
Not particularly interested in marbles, glass shader looks good though.
Thanks for the positive comments and… too bad for the bad ones lol… maybe I will get into C4D modeling (which I haven’t explored that much yet). Et oui @Sal je suis Québécois, mais je vis à Québec Québec, mais whatever, lâche pas C4D :D
we need more mo graph tuts!
anybody have any idea how to knock over the bowl with dynamics so all the marbles spill out and the bowl reacts?
greyscale gorilla?
umm…why don’t your marbles have any bounce? they just fall and stick. also, this isn’t very creative. yes, thank you for covering some modynamics and particle generation but you could have done something with it that hasn’t been done and seen by thousands of people all over the world who look at greyscale gorilla every day.
very good..
thanks.
the preview and tutorial video player are bullshit never works in my computer , and it is not an old computer its a core 2 duo macbook pro
It is most likely not the player or your computer that is the problem, but rather your browser or version of flash player that needs to be updated.
This is sick! Pretty cool as you like to say. You showed some awesome tricks and trade off of a lovely rendering foundation. From navigating built in content manager, to quick preset of glass material and to finally quickly animate your camera off of splines. You showed some sick time savers.
THANK YOU!
Nice. Very helpful.
What means if i don’t have the MoGraph – Rigid body? … Please let me know on my e-mail: madalin08_irl@yahoo.com
Very usefull tutorial. thanks a lot.
hello….i have a little problem…i have not the rigid tool in cinema 4d?what is the problem?great tutorial…thx!
Cool Tutorial! i’ve really understand a lot of things about the basics of animation with this! Thank you for sharing you’re knowledge!
I think this is the best C4D tutorial I have seen. You covered a whole heap of important stuff – I never even knew about the content browser! Thanks a lot.
Hey!
Nice tutorial but I don’t have this MoGraph gravity. So where do I get it?
:( Very nice toturial but I got same problem with rigid body.. I follow the steps but the problem is when you added the rigid body to the cloner effects, the bowl and Emmiter are not bouncing together…. I stuck of that step but I manage to solve the problem.. I just delete it the Emmiter and used clone and added random effects so it look realistic…but after 3 minutes I realize that this tutorial is not for me :(..
“I found a new thing.. if u want to cut the sphere half, you just need to change type:Standard to Hermisphere for short cut ” :)
thank you man :)
awesome…..
I see you are using either 11 or 11.5 , could you possibly do an updated version of this tutorial using R12, as when i add a rigid body , the sphere falls endlessly.
Is it normaly to take 60h+ for rendering on i3? THX
Tnx nick i searched your blog for a little problem with the emitter first the just fall on to the bowl no the don’t YAY
I am using coffee beans for the cloner, but they leak from bottom of the bowl, at least for the first 50 frames.
Any ideas 0n how to plug this leak?
regards
/terry
hey tanks for that..
is there any way to download the video??
Hey Ledys,
To download the video, just right click on the “Video 1″ text (right above the embedded video) and choose “Save Link As…”
Cheers,
Chris