I have some budget left for training this year, and I'm looking for some decent courses. I am an advanced user, I know the basics or am advanced in pretty much any topic in 3D.

What I'd like to work on is my 3D Motion Design skill, specifically things like planning shots, animating cameras in interesting ways, lighting in dynamic shots and compositing / post work in AE.

I've done product animations and similar things before, so I don't need the basics. I've been looking for training on these topics for ages, but almost everything seems to be catered towards beginners.

Are there any courses that you could recommend?

modeling a poloriod onstep for a school assignment. quite new to the software, how should i approach this? for now im blocking the shapes out but is there a better way?

Good morning all, I don't have the GSG plugin. I was handed over a project that has been made editable using the GSG lights, but the render is not coming out as it should because the softboxes stop lighting once they have been editable. Is there a fast way to fix this besides buying the plugin?

Download it here: https://github.com/lukasguziel/overseer/releases/

Full Overview: https://github.com/lukasguziel/overseer

This is the first release, so if you run into any issues or have suggestions, I'd be happy to hear your feedback and improve it.

I'm making a logo in c4d and using FFD for curving the logo shape. It works but then as I continue working the effect stops working and I have to turn off and on the FFD to fix it.. Anyone know how to fix this?

Hi everyone,

I'd really appreciate some advice and opinions regarding optimization and interior lighting for a relatively large industrial warehouse.

I already have a lighting setup in place (image attached), which basically consists of an RS Sun + Sky, one large Area Light inside the warehouse pointing toward the floor, and the lights from the fixtures.

The issue is that I tried replacing the large Area Light with two Portal Lights (one for each row of skylights on the roof), but the render actually became slower, and I didn't notice much visual improvement in terms of reducing the GI noise inside the scene.

Since this scene will eventually contain many more elements (machines, conveyor belts, production lines, etc.), I'd like to know how you would approach lighting a space of this scale. Most of the tutorials I've found about Portal Lights focus on much smaller interiors, such as rooms or apartments, so I'm not sure whether the same techniques apply here.

Thanks in advance!

(This render has a denoise pass on it)

Hello guys, I finally finished the animation I was recently working on and asked for feedback, and your feedbacks really helped and made the process more enjoying and inspires me to create even more artworks.

This is the updated version. I loved it so much and I hope you guys love it too.

You can check out the animation which I posted on Instagram and share your thoughts : Link to the post

the first image is while rendering and the second image is after its been rendered out. what's the issue here? im using octane.

I'm creating urbanism scene in C4D made for live broadcasting in an engine that has trouble rendering pngs with transparency layer that many tree models use for leaves. Im searching for something that looks similar to google earth tree models with a bit higher texture resolution.

Are the assets low poly tree scans or modeled manually is not important, as long as it looks semi realistic while scaled down. Most of the volumetric trees I've found are heavily stylized and don't fit my scene.

Hi! Today's news: Houdini 22 has rolled out full native support for 3D Gaussian Splatting technology. This was previously done by Unreal Engine, and add-ons for Blender were released.

Question: Are you working on implementing this technology, or will you, as usual, be light years behind the times? )))

alright, I'm starting to like C4D native fluids.
Silly ahh clip with upcoming polish elections in mind B)
rendered in RS

I try to animate this head & cubes reacting to its Voice in a way like in this reference ...

Here's the reference link...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR06SE-jTNA

I'm trying to render a scene with some clouds - premade VDBs inside a Redshift Volume object with volume shader. It looks correct in the RenderView while I'm working on it, but when I hit render to picture viewer (or enable bucket rendering) the volumes turn very dark, almost black. Any idea what could be the cause?

The weird thing is when I first made the scene a few days ago, they were rendering correctly. I've tried opening backup scene files from the time when it worked, but those also now have the same issue.

I can't share images or the scene file unfortunately due to NDA.

I have this part from the installation and there will be an animated long texture (video). Now there are two types of attempts in Cinema 4D: everything in 1 object(bcs i tried to get help from ai and should do this) and a null object with different Plane, on which a spline warp is draped. I need to make a UV in the form of 1 long strip, which will be applied to the entire installation, I.e. not a repeating texture, but laid out in separate parts throughout the installation. How to do this?

Hi helpful people.

I'm pretty new to c4d, and I just subscribed to GSG (Cargo/kitbash - Btw whats up with all these names)

So I installed the "Light Kit Pro - Product Studios". Now I simply can't find the tool inside c4d. Can someone help me to find it?

I've uploaded some screenshots, to make it more clear.

What am I missing? I guess its something really simple I'm doing wrong.

Still can't get used to the new layout help :( I don't have any locked axes. I can see that my V(green) is coming out of the screen and I don't know how to change that, I though U and V should be on the surface by default????

Hello! I hope this is okay to post this. I'm part of a two person team and we work mainly for artists making work for exhibition at major institutions. We're currently working on a project making an animation for an artist based in North America - we need an extra pair of hands, preferably someone who has strong knowledge of Insydium plug-in in C4D. The animation is all plants, bugs, particles, neon colours! If this is you and you're available for 3-4 days work please let me know below, to start asap. Thanks so much

my scene renders too slow with random walk in a specular material I want to fake the look and reduce my render times. for context my object is a thin strip.

I have an otherwise fast v PC. Have been using C4D since r12 and this is the slowest it has ever opened. What gives?! Lucky I'm not working on anything that crashes it a lot or I would be going insane.

Hello, I'm rendering this wombat animation and the redshift hair wont render. I have tried checking the settings and no luck. I dont need much, just trying to get the edges to not be so smooth..

Not sure if anyone can relate to this, but I had to jump in C4D over the past week, for a project involving motion graphics. And honestly, still to this day, nothing comes closer to C4D's mograph when it comes to controlling clones, time offset, etc... but visualizing it, doing art direction and getting it to preview with Redshift was a different story. I had to optmize my scene as best as I could, and it was still extremely slow to see things on the IPR preview.

I have two RTX 4070, a nice computer, and still, have to disable material preview, work with proxies, disabling this and that to have a quicker response when visualizing things, but I can still see the whole C4D freeze for a quick second before showing me an updated version.
Maybe Im too spoiled in Blender and working with eevee/cycles, and seeing changes in almost realtime... Redshift is still far superior when it comes to the actual rendering time and the quality it delivers, but working with it when designing a scene was a nightmare.

Anybody had similar experience? Im on C4D 2026 and the latest Redshift update.

Experimented with gaussian splatting instead of traditional motion tracking and shadow catcher plane, works great !