Oh that looks really cool

Oh that looks really not cool

YES!NICE,hope you guys can make more amazing effects.

oh my god…by reading the authors profile, i thought this was going to be a nice one,\. but when i watched the preview, i was dissapointed.
you should have worked a bit with the whole animation. and also by the end, where does all the light within the apple go.im sorry mate, nice try but the overall outcome was not imressive.

The outcome doesn’t look too good honestly.

Never used C4D, but anywho..
The apple itself and the colors are fine looking. The bullet seems to have no texture and could have been a hell of a lot better.
What I think really ruins this is the end where the liquid apple falls down into liquid/water and has almost none effect. The apple should be like a big drop of liquid falling into another liquid, which should have quite a splash. That only had some ripples out on the ends.
Like Abojung just said, after reading your profile I expected a whole of a lot more, sorry.

the final effect leaves me desiring absolutely nothing.

the authors profile is very well refined but the proof is in the pudding…your work needs a lot of…well…work.

cutting edge? houston? for real? when i think cutting edge and houston i think 808 not 1618. sorry, dude, but it’s true.

i wish chris all the best luck in the world. houston is a tough town. if i could make one huge recommendation it would be to remove all tutorial based clips from your demo reel. show us your best, creative and unique work not what you’ve emulated from andrew kramer or a making it look great series.

Wow…you C4D users sure are a tough crowd huh? lol. We’ll have to see about upping the anti then….

Wow guys!!! You are a tough crowd!! But I must say that I appreciate all of your comments…this has been a HUGE walkup call for me. I agree with a lot of what has been said here. Let me just say regarding the Profile…this is what I use everywhere…probably should not have used it here, in hindsight, but I did. I use it because I hope that it gets me a job…that all. Just self promotion…

Regarding the reel…I agree, it needs to be reworked…I think that I have fallen into what so many new people in this industry fall into and that is emulating others work that you have learned on…in fact I think that this very topic was mentioned in the John Dickinson / Andrew Kramer interview a couple of weeks ago…I will do better!!!

And by the way…I know the guys at 808…they are fantastic!!! I hope 1618 can get to that point someday.

And finally, the tutorial, yes it could have been better…no doubt. I could have worked on it longer and probably should have. But I do think that there are some good things in there that might be of use to someone with less time using the software than myself…and that is the person that might get some use out of all of this. Anyway, I enjoy making the tutorials and think I get better as I progress and I plan to continue making them…

Again, thanks for all of your comments, it has really been an eye-opener for me!!!

Wow, nothing about what I expected the final outcome to look like looks anything like what it actually looked like, and in a bad way… The bullet burst looks completely 2D and fake looking, and the apple falling as liquid just sank in instead of exploding like a water balloon, which would’ve been cool. As it stands I can’t imagine wanting to use any of those effects in my projects.

… “Amazing Liquid Apple…” not so amazing :-/

Day 2 and Day 3!?

beware
cg plus upcoming next!

ok. chris konw now that it was not the best…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIayrDbVdJ0

real shoots look like this. =)

the bullet in the waterbottle for example makes a great shock wave….
perhaps you make somthing like this.

I appreciate the fact you’re making tutorials and sharing your knowledge with the community.

That being said, perhaps you could release a Day 4 based on the feedback here with all the tweaks you would have done to make the overall effect stronger.

uhm.. where did the apple gone at the end? I would expect it to splash all around.
Need a bit work but thanks anyway. Can be a nice introduction to realflow

You guys are idiots, the best part of this tut was how to set up the scene in RF! Who gives a crap about the way he rendered it or what shaders he used. I don’t even use C4D I use Maya and this tut was great!

I just needed some info on RF and I can do all the shaders and lighting in maya myself.

I swear if someone doesn’t hold your hand and walk you through everything most of you bitch and complain. It’s very sickening seeing so many people cry over the fact that no one is going to paint the picture for them. Grab any information you can while it’s there!

I think that it’s time I added my two cents here. Many of you seem to be disappointed that this final result is not professional commercial level, or “Cutting edge” enough, but what I think you fail to realize is that the tutorial itself is just that…at “tutorial”, and not meant to be a professional commercial piece, or representative of Chris’ total cumulative skillset. A tutorial exists not to say “look a the awesome stuff ‘I’ can do”, but to show you a small set of techniques, or to introduce you to a particular workflow, so that YOU can incorporate it into your OWN cumulative skillset, and then say “look at the awesome stuff ‘I’ can do. It goes without saying that Chris obviously spent at lot of his own time and energy trying to prepare this resource for the community, so even if you don’t like the final result, I think you at least have to give him credit for his effort. Bearing that in mind, I think that many of you are being a little too critical of this tutorial series…and most certainly of Chris himself.

I thinks it’s cool that everyone here has their opinion on the tutorial and to be tough on it, but let’s not forget that we are getting them for free, and the main thing with the tutorials it’s to get tips, not to emulate the same thing. We could take the great info on the tutorial and try to get something better. Sure, the bullet doesn’t look realistic and the water doesn’t splash like it should, but we can get that done spending some time experimenting in Realflow.

I can’t complain about this 3 part tutorial because I learned a thing or two, keep the good work Chris

Good tutorial, thanks.

Yeah, I’ve never commented here before, but I just feel the need to chime in. I think Kaleb hit the nail on the head. The end product is not what matters in a tutorial; it’s the process. You watch a tutorial to glean techniques and tips that you can use in your own projects. It’s ridiculous that many of you are completely trashing this when clearly Chris has taken a project from start to finish and demonstrated a great deal that you could learn from. A lot of the most advanced tutorials don’t even have an end product; it’s to show you workflow or a process, and you do the actual design yourself.

I do this kind of stuff professionally, and it’s pretty amazing the amount of reels that I see that have straight up copies of tutorials in them. If a producer (or whoever) sees a reel with a tutorial in it, you most certainly won’t be hired. You need to learn the techniques from tutorials and then create your own design with your own aesthetic or else you will never improve.

Anyway, I watched the tutorial, and I learned some new tips from it, so I appreciate the effort put into it.

Lets not forget that this is a tutorial, Not a “how to rip someone off and make something for yourself”. He goes over alot of the process for using realflow and C4D. How can you look at a preview and judge the tute? I do have a question though, my “apple” does not spew the drops out when the rocket comes out of the other side like yours,(my liquid in more like paint, or puddy) I did use just a sphere but, should it make a difference, I have been playing with the density and pressures of the fill-object and I think I am getting there. Any thought and or suggestions? Thanks for your time.

Cool man , but i cant find the NEXTLIMIT plug-in, why?? how can i install this plug-in?

i cant watch the video !

the video fails to load

fool haters….

Please make this viewable again.

I’m waiting on a reply from our video host

Or just make the download work again, please!

great tutorial, but I cant download, tutorial movie. please refresh the download link

please get this working =[

this video sucks. the water below consumes an apple and it all of a sudden just disappears.. i think the patch of grass that i made in 20 seconds is better than this lol.

we are so great!!!!

hi

Please let me know how to install the plugin into cinema 4d there is a nextlimit .cdl file and a res called folder what to do with them?

I tried to paste them to cinema 4d plugins and after also to exchange plugins folder, but it is not working
please help me!

please let me know how to install nextlimit plugins I tried to copy the res folder and nextlimit .cdl file but it is not working

thank You very much!!

is the simulation supposed to take forever….