Materials 101 – Working With Materials In Cinema 4D

Materials 101 – Working With Materials In Cinema 4D

on Jun 19th 2012 with 9 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Software: Maxon Cinema 4D
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 1 Hour

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This is not a project based tutorial. This is a 101 tutorial, which introduces you to how materials work in Cinema 4D. I will show you what layers are, and what the different parameters are. How to use them and what they do. Explain the difference between transparency and alpha, and other little details of the material system that I have learnt over time.

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Aleksey Voznesenski is a 3D specialist experienced in many areas of the 3D world. Mainly focused on animation, he has experience in motion graphics, modeling, rigging, render setup, lighting, camera work and art direction. Working as a contractor for many companies, Aleksey provides his expertise to get projects done on time and to spec. His main package of choice is Cinema4D, but Aleksey has experience in all of the industry standard packages like 3ds Max, Maya and XSI. His contact details can be found at ace5studios.com. Also be sure to visit ace5education.com for even more tutorials from Aleksey!  

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  • http://None Occultcg

    By posting such tutorial(s) you target only beginners thus you mock others. You post too many beginner tutorials and/or C4D+AE, how about a complex model tutorial ? I see for other apps (max/maya) very nice tutorials but for Cinema 4D you post more than 50-70% beginner tutorials, not fair !

  • http://- Tommie

    Hi!

    When I first saw this been posted on Facebook I was really excited but now im kinda disapointed tbh.
    You go trough the step real fast and I think the cool stuff is to show people how the layering works.
    Offcourse people can figure these things out but as you already going trough the basics it might be a bit more of those in depth.

    Anyway thank you for posting, I learend something here and there but it’s all about experimenting ;)

    Greetz

  • http://ace5education.com aleksey
    Author

    Sorry guys, I’ll try and get a follow up tutorial done which shows me more layer experimenting and post up a link.

  • http://designfishmedia.com geir B Nystad

    I think this is just fine, I learn something even if I think I already know this.

  • John Corbitt

    This was great and was very helpful to the audience who it was clearly directed to with the title Materials 101. Ignore the whiners.

  • Paul

    I searched without success a while ago for a method of creating the 2 tone effect of the model pictured here so I am disappointed to discovered that you do not explain how that’s done. It even says above the image “Final Product What You’ll be Creating” !

    • Paul

      Sorry, I just figured out what should have been perfectly obvious – a Colorizer on the same image in the Color channel.

      • Pieter Vrijdag

        I was a bit dissapointed as well, for the same reason you were. Although ‘perfectly obvious’ comment made me play around with the layers option and I got some nice, simular, outcomes. Thanks Paul!

  • Minhaz Mahmood

    Can you please reupload the tutorial video? Because the file seems missing. PLEASE.