Resources
   

3rd Party Tutorials
Naam's Tutorials
Great character animation tutorials.

Internet Eye 3D Tutorials
Tutorials using Bodypaint and CINEMA 4D. Some good low polygon modeling adn painting tutorials.

Sven's Great Character Tutorials
A couple great character animation tutorials. A lot of work went into these.

Tutorials for C4D Beginners
A great series of beginner tutorials done by Joel Mills. 90 pages of great information. You will need to generate a login and password.

Painting in 3D with BodyPaint 3D
An article on 3D Gate by Doug Sahlin. Gives you the basic steps.

Modeling a Human Head
A great tutorial by Nick Woolridge.

Stephan Oberländer Tutorials
Stephan builds tutorials in both German and English. His first tutorial covers underwater lighting.

Lizard Lounge: CINEMA and QTVR
Chris Mills explores the uses of CINEMA in creating and utilizing QTVRs.

How to Create Steroscopic Images
Phil “Captain 3D” McNally takes you through the process of creating Stereoscopic Images from your CINEMA 4D renders.

COFFEE plugin tutorial
Tutorials that help you learn C.O.F.F.E.E. You will need a working knowledge of CINEMA 4D and also a little programming experience.

COFFEE Dialog tutorial
This first tutorial covers the making of a simple stair making utiltiy, including the scripting of a dialog box that allows users to enter parameters for the creation of stairs and the subsequent creation of objects using COFFEE.

How to Create a Landscape Material
This tutorial will take you through the steps of creating a very nice material for landscapes.

SLA Clouds
An incredible cloud tutorial using only SLA 2.5. This tutorial covers from the beginning steps of creating the shaders to actually animating the clouds.

Levels of Detail - Rock Tutorial
A tutorial that demonstrates how to fix UV's within Bodypaint.

Using HDRI in Cinema 4D
Another tutorial for creating High Dynamic Range Images within Cinema 4D. This is an invaluable technique for creating photorealistic images.

Thinking Particles Sprites
Sprites are a way for a particle system to display only a texture map without calculating huge amounts of geometry. This tutorial shows how to achieve this effect by using Thinking Particles.

MV's Radiosity Tutorial
A thorough tutorial explaining the controls and concepts of CINEMA's radiosity rendering.

COFFEE Node Primer
New to version 8.1 of Cinema 4D is the COFFEE node, many of you will be scared stiff by this little baby, but really there's no need to. Soon I'll have you embracing that COFFEE node, and many of you may even take the next step and move onto COFFEE tags or even full blown COFFEE plugins. It really isn't as difficult as you might think, and in fact you'll soon find it an indispensable part of your Xpresso armour.

COFFEE SDK Primer
A great starting point and detailed explanation of getting into the COFFEE SDK.

Simulating Daylight by Carles Piles
A great lighting tutorial by one of CINEMA's best.

Jeremy W's SLA Exploration
Jeremy's the man when it comes to SLA. If you have questions regarding the use of SLA, here's the place for the answers.

 Per-Anders' CINEMA tutorials
A collection of tutorials from an artist who knows his CINEMA.

Steve Baines' Intro to C++ with CINEMA
Looking to get into coding for CINEMA? This tutorial will help give you the jumpstart you need.

Xpresso Tutorials and Walkthroughs
Many tutorials and walkthroughs explaining the depths of Xpresso.

Modeling a Spider
This isn't a direct tutorial, but shows many informative screen shots on how to model a spider.

Modeling a Head with Edge Extrude
Jannis Labelle explains how to model a head using edge extrusions.

Underwater Scenery
A tutorial that explains the process of creating an underwater atmosphere by Stephan Oberlaender.

Tips on Radiosity
Matthew O'Neil (Mash) gives the low down on all of the settings for Radiosity.

Speeding Up rendering
Ever wonder what makes your render slow? Matthew O'Neil (Mash) explains what can cause that.

Texturing a Head
If you need to paint a face on a character, this tutorial will show you how.

Creating Normal Maps
What's a Normal Map? This tutorial will explain that, along with creating one.

Reproducing Real-World Lighting
James Hastings-Trew gives a great explanation on how to recreate real-world lighting.

Modeling a Light-Bulb
Another great tutorial by James Hastings-Trew.

Creating Glass
A tutorial demonstrating how to create a realistic glass material.

Building a Soft IK Leg Rig
Need to build a stable Soft IK rig? Dan Libisch will explain just how to do that.

Using Ambient Occulsion
Ambient Occulsion... huh? A tutorial explaing how to adjust a render using Ambient Occulsion.

A Steering Rig with Xpresso
You can never have too much Xpresso. A detailed tutorial that creates a rig to steer a car.

Modeling Tire Tread
A tutorial explaining the procedures for modeling a tire.

Electron Microscope
If you need to create a microscopic atmosphere, this tutorial will show you how to do that.

Modeling an Audi S3
Mike Batchelor writes a descriptive tutorial for modeling an Audi S3.

Using the Range Mapper
This tutorial explores the more commonly used Xpresso Range Mapper node.

Creating an Oil Refinery
Janine Pauke demonstrates how to create an oil refinery.


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