Tutorial Details
- Software: Maxon Cinema4D
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Completion Time: 30-45mins
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating
In today’s fiery tutorial, Ahmed Al Abbasy walks us through how to create this awesome lava-ball scene in Cinema 4D. Making great use of the powerful explosion, bend and gravity objects, this tutorial really does show just how intuitive Cinema4D can be when creating a stylish result such as this! Let’s get started…
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Looks super, goint to try it asap.
Very tedious voice, the image of the tutorial is great, but the proces, ho my God! so boring!
Nice work.
This tutorial helped me learn a whole new range of techniques.
Are you planning to make more tutorials?
Most of the C4D scenes I see on this site are just so-so, but this one is actually very nice, minus the lack of anti-aliasing.
Assalamu alikum
great job Ahmed! i’ll give it a shot
awesome tut, it was a little slow in some parts , i felt like i fastforwarded to get to the end of some step. but thats probably just the add me, it was an awesome tut however and i learned alot of new skills thank you!
cool tut =] nice result, and some fun with the deformers, which i admittedly have not used much of, except for the common ones like bend (use that one all the time)
one thing though, I normally just listen while working fullscreen on my own interface.. please try and say the correct things.. for instance, “explosion” vs “explosion fx”, or “x axis” when you really mean “y axis”. can get confusing sometimes!
wicked C4D tut, keep ‘em coming!
excellent tutorial Ahmed, thanks very much for sharing your tips and tricks. great looking result. some parts were a little slow for my taste (sun time accuracy down to the last hour/minute/second?) anyways, great job. i’m already looking forward to the next one.
Thank you guys for your comments :)
Next time i will try to speed things up.
How can someone make something this awesome in 30 minutes and yet sound so bored?
Wow this turned out really cool, great tutorial. seriously make some more tutorials these are great and easy to follow. i like the technique of getting a texture on the sphere lol very original.
Great tutorial! :)
Good tut, but when you go into “Load material Preset” I’ve got nothing there!
awesome C4D tut, I really learned a lot new things,keep on going!
looking forward to the next one.
Wow you did an amazing job! It was really easy to follow. You should make more tuts. Thanks..
This is an outstanding tutorial, easy to follow and not too fast. The end result after 30 min is just amazing. Hope there are more tutorials from Ahmed Al Abbasy to come.
That was awesome, the end result is very good plus it teached some useful techniques.
hey, great tutorial, im just learning cinema 4d, and even i could follow it, thank you so much,
although my cinema 4d does not have the lava material, so it defeats the purpose of doing this, i was woundering if some one could save the lava metiral as a metiral pack so i could load it in, thanks john
Hi John,
Here is a link where you could download a similar lava shader: http://3dapple.deviantart.com/art/Free-Lava-shader-Cinema-4D-128854248
I hope this helps :)
Praise God all the best and thank you for the excellent work, but better-than-stellar
I’m new in c4d and 3d in general.
Can someone explain how the double texture works?
Thomas, I’m pretty new to C4D myself but I believe that when he set the second material with an alpha channel it makes it so that any part of the venus texture that he applied to that alpha that was dark would cause that part of the material to be transparent allowing the first material to show through. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
P.S Did anyone have that fog channel applied to the landscape material drastically slow down their render time?
If you wanted to animate this an make it look like the fire was smoldering how would you go about doing it. I tried adding randomness to the glow but it didn’t look very convincing.
Hi very good tut, but can someohe help me? i have a problem with when you pick lava. i go on ‘file’ then ‘Load material preset’, but ‘Cinema 4D’ isn’t there! is anyone got the same problem or know how to solve it??? if so, please e-mail me
when i select the galaxy texture in the environment area for the first new material.. mine comes out lookin nothing likr yours and i have dots all around it…
very nice tuts. thumbs up!!! guys where cani watch more c4d tuts???? pls reply tnx..
There’s a terrific amount of konwglede in this article!
Great job, I hope you will make more!! I learned a lot, you used very simple techniques