Tutorial Details
- Software: Cinema4d 11.5 (10 and up should be able to follow easily)
- Difficulty: Beginner/ Intermediate
- Techniques Covered: Modeling, rigging, constraints, animation, lighting, materials, and rendering
- Completion Time: 1 hour
- Software/ Hardware Requirements: Computer that can run cinema4D R10 or higher; Mocca2 module
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Twice a month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Cgtuts+. Today we’re taking a look back at Aleksey Voznesenski’s awesome tutorial on creating a jumping lamp animation in Cinema4D. This two day tutorial was originally published back in March of 2010, and proved to be very popular with our C4D users.
This tutorial is a relatively quick overview of setting up a scene with a rigged animated object in Cinema4D. Although it should be simple to follow along to anyone with a basic knowledge of Cinema 4D, this tutorial is mainly aimed at artists migrating to Cinema4D from another package. It quickly and concisely demonstrates how to use the basic modeling tools, set up a rig with bones, use constraints, change the type of keyframes, use the auto keyframe tool, clean up keyframes, work with the time line, set up lights, set up materials, apply the materials to objects and render out an animation. Everything you need to quickly get into Cinema4D.
This tutorial is Day 1 in a series – Go to Day 2.
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Very good tutorial! many useful tips :D
A for effort
F for originality
I guess the purpose of this tutorial is not about developping a style, but how to create something you’re already familiar with.
Why F? Ok, so it’s the Pixar lamp. Who cares? That’s what workshops are about, reproducing something you see and learning how it was done.
Thanks Aleksey.
Y for you.
S for should.
L for leave.
Aleksey, good tutorial. This will help me in pure concept, even in Maya.
Hmm… seems familiar somehow…
thanks so much aleksey; great tutorial! this is exactly what a tutorial should be, a straight forward way to learn about a program or technique.
don’t listen to these uninspired people who are obviously here to find out WHAT they should do, and not HOW to create their own vision.
This looks promising. Rigging mechanical objects in C4D is sometimes more of a mystery than more organic character rigging. Look forward to it, thanks.
not sure whatsup with the negative comments up their,
nice work and keep it up,
if u guys have nothing good to say at least show us what u can do…
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Great tut! I’ve learned heaps already, can’t wait for day 2!
Amazing, excellent tutorial. Waiting for part two!
Excelente! muchisimas gracias por este tutorial, es realmente realmente maravilloso, ojala tuvieramos más tutoriales de C4D como este ^^
GREAT GENAL!!!!
graciass
the player ist just pain in the a** :(
this player daznt work for me , plzzzzzzzz make a youtube player plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
The player doesn’t work for me either. I have XP with the newest Mozilla Firefox.
Awesome tutorial !
Спасибо, Алексей. )
I just loved it.
Really I mean the tutorial was super awesome. I’ve been using Cinema 4D for quite some time now and never bothered with Command Manager but now I know how powerful it actually is. My workflow has become a lot smoother thank to u.
I don’t know anything about with rigging and constraints but the way this tutorials introduced these concepts to me was cool. This is the way a tutorial should be.
Hoping to see more from you Aleksy.
my first riging tutorial…great stuff!
Player doesn’t work for me at all dudes..
Latest Mozilla on Snow Leopard.
Seem to be an issue with the vid at Bliptv. Waiting for a reply from them now.
Awesome tutorial. Waiting for part 2. When is it coming out?
Part2 is located below part 1 ;)
ermh…should have i said DAY two? I bet you got me though ;)
WOW really cool tutorial!!! Thnx Sir! I would like to have this kind of tutorials very often)) Thnx once more.
From Uzbekista,Tashkent!!!
When is the day2 comming out?
Btw, i liked day1 tutorial very much, it does seam that you’re very experienced user so if you can try to be a bit slower ;)
Aleksey is currently working on part 2, but we still do not have a specific date worked out yet. Will keep you posted.
Great tutorial! Thanks!
Lots of great info! Thanks!
thanks !!!!
Hi!
Great stuff !
http://www.studio76.fr/3d/
Part 1 has an error; the full tutorial doesn’t load. Can’t even download it. Please correct the problem
Are you talking about the preview video? Because the tutorial videos are working fine from my comp.
Thanks for the helpfull tutorial. Great job!
Is there going to be a part 3?
Great Tutorial! Love it!
Cannot wait for Day 2!!!
Very good stuff. Tnx
Waiting for part 2!!!
Awesome tutorial!!!!
Waiting for Part 2!!!!!!!!!!!!1
hey there…still waiting for day 2…isn’t it ready yet? keep up the good work!!!
i just wanted to say this is a great tut have been looking on the web for good c4d tuts…i’m trying to learn c4d from 3ds
Great tut, Aleksey. Really enjoy the speed of your work and technical skills. You seem to be a regular rigger:) So still waiting for the rest of the tutorial, any idea when it’s coming up?
P.S. I see you are on C4D R11.5, so for disabling HyperNURBS (or any other nurbs object) just hit Q key:) Thought I point it out, as I saw you were struggling there.
Hi,
sorry guys, been busy with other work. Will try and get it done ASAP.
I am not really that much into rigging. I mean i can do it, but its probably the least favourite part of working in 3D. But thanks for the compliment =)
yeah the Q key… i have it remapped to object mode, so it doesnt really do that anymore. Although i think i got parent generator toggle mapped to alt+q or something. I should probably use it more, but i tried to minimize hotkey usage here as much as i could, so people would be able to follow along.
cheers,
Aleksey
Amazing!! I just had a look at the first video while eating, and wow you move fast! There’s a lot of technique to pick up there, when I follow the tutorial I’ll have to pause to try things out.
thanks a lot!
Where is video 3???
oh yeah!! thats awsome, I always likes that Pixar animation logo and wondered how does that done, Thank you I will try it now!!! amazing!!!
Wow… this is a great tutorial, can’t waint till the next part.
I’m trying to animate the lamp myself wright now, but just started Cinema 4D
since three weeks, so it’s a pain in the ass.
When are you going to upload video 3??? very good tips 10thx alot keep it up :)
Waiting for Part 2? :S
still waiting……….
Respect. You work fast and your tips are a great time saver. Can’t wait for more tuts from you.
Where is part 2?
Still no part III… :(
Yeah it really sucks to keep us all waiting for part 3
There actually is no Part 3, as it is a 2 Day series. Day 2 has been submitted, however, and will be published very soon. Sorry for the delay!
waiting for part 3…
where can I get the reference picture?
Hey Alex!
thanks for this epic tutorial!
i just moved from 3Ds Max to Cinema 4D.
Your tutorial helped out with many new things and i LOVE how you explain EVERY feature that you use in this tutorial.
thanks to you i can now start rigging and creating more stuff!
but i still am finding some parts hard ><
Thank you for your time making this tutorial
I just wish that you slow down a bit
Cheers mate
XD Nice name
good tutorial i
it helpful for learning to create stuff
i know this lamp i pixar
but the tutorial really teaches you how to create stuff!!!
GOOD TUTORIAL!
nice tut
but.. PLEASE SPEAK MORE CLEARLY!
no mumblng, please
also buy a better microphone, or at least speak directly onto it
Great tutorial. I really like your presentation style. The topic was great too.
Keep it up!
its gud man i can learn sumthing on other its gud for some1 who r learing basics man thanks