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FULL Cinema 4D Tutorial. How to get started

I'm going to make a thread about Cinema 4D, in this thread you will find basic and advanced tutorials, resources ( Free 3D models, textures, Free projects,...). I will also post sites where you can find other tutorials and inspiration.
Most of these tutorials are video tuts. I tried to post the most useful tuts with preview in the spoiler tags.

Basic

Introduction to rendering in C4D

Beginner's Guide to C4D

Beginner's Guide to modeling in C4D

Infinite Floor
Preview Spoiler (Click to View)

How to make a Simple Spin Logo Animation
Preview Spoiler (Click to View)

Advanced

How to Animate the Inception Totem
Preview Spoiler (Click to View)

How to build a Sci-Fi Sphere Scene
Preview Spoiler (Click to View)

Stopping Time: How to make the Matrix Effect
Preview Spoiler (Click to View)

How To Use Textures and Objects to Light Your Scene With and Without Global Illumination
Preview Spoiler (Click to View)

How to Build a Softbody Glass Mesh with Dynamics
Preview Spoiler (Click to View)

Resources

Textures, Free Models, Free Projects
I didn't post all the tutorials of C4D, so here are the site where you can search for what you need.

http://greyscalegorilla.com
Most of the tutorials I posted came from that site, but there are much more.

http://www.thepixellab.net/category/free-resoureces
A lot of free resources and tutorials on this site

Free Iphone 4 Model
Preview Spoiler (Click to View)

http://www.beeple-crap.com/resources.php
PreviewSpoiler (Click to View)

http://www.cinema4dtutorial.net/
PreviewSpoiler (Click to View)

In Need of Inspiration

Visit my other thread http://gfxforums.net/thread-inspirational-3d-art

http://www.beeple-crap.com/
http://www.reserve17.net/
http://www.3dworldmag.com/

Youtube Channels that can help you out.

I forgot to post youtube channels.
http://www.youtube.com/user/AcrezHD
http://www.youtube.com/user/Project4D
http://www.youtube.com/user/IDigitalUniverse
http://www.youtube.com/user/ChromeDesignsHD

This tutorial is made by me Cherub aka McAdam
If you think I can make this thread better or should add something post below because it took me much time to create this.
can you please pm me the download link for this software ?

thanks
Thanks for the tuto :)

(Oct 17, 2011 09:45 AM)StEp Up! Wrote:  can you please pm me the download link for this software ?

thanks

http://www.#/?d=9UBTGGRI
Nice collection, you can also link many Youtube User's Tutorials.
if you want i can make a collection of Youtube Tutorial links??
Thank you for this resources list. I am bookmarking this for future use.
Havent watched your tut yet, but i tried cinema 4D once. Hard as fuck! I will do this tut soon though. I got ideas for youtube in my head. Just need fancy effects to tough it up!
this is nice but im looking for a way on how to model cars for garrysmod xD
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(Oct 18, 2011 12:32 AM)envious.` Wrote:  this is nice but im looking for a way on how to model cars for garrysmod xD

Look for the first 3 tutorials. If you still need more help PM me.

(Oct 17, 2011 10:00 PM)∆птїdот Wrote:  Nice collection, you can also link many Youtube User's Tutorials.
if you want i can make a collection of Youtube Tutorial links??

Yeah, right
I forgot to post youtube channels.
http://www.youtube.com/user/AcrezHD
Awesome tutorial, great thanks alot. :)
No problem mate, it was made so everyone could learn something.
Very nice man. Can I download this software somewhere? Looks like a thingy.
(Oct 24, 2011 09:14 AM)Killuminatii Wrote:  Very nice man. Can I download this software somewhere? Looks like a thingy.

Go to their site to download the demo http://www.maxon.net
(Oct 24, 2011 09:14 AM)Killuminatii Wrote:  Very nice man. Can I download this software somewhere? Looks like a thingy.

You can look for some torrent from trusted source :)
they are easy to find
nice tutorial man...Great job....It will help me in a good way....Thank you for sharing this..
No Problem man, I hope you learned a lot from it.


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