Hey everyone, here’s a tutorial I made that explains my multi-pass workflow in Cinema 4D to After Effects. Namely, my focus was to show how to set up your C4D scene to catch shadows properly on live action footage or a photograph in one render. I’ve had a lot of questions how to do this so I hope this is helpful for some. Often you will here C4D users ask if there is something similar [...]

Just a quick demonstration for a member over at c4dcafe. How to manually adjust your Coordinate Systems after you solved with the 3 point system. Link to old SynthEyes axis tutorial.

Just wanted to share some of my R&D testing of Turbulence FD. It’s a gaseous fluids plug-in for Cinema 4D. Similar to the 3DS Max plug-in, Fumefx. It’s a lot of fun and quite powerful. Site to buy Turbulence FD. Few tests. First up is a matchmoving test where I added fire and smoke using Turbulence FD (TFD) and the second is a camera mapped photo using Projection Man inside of Cinema 4D then of [...]

Here’s a look at an up and coming tutorial that I’m working on. I shot the footage with my 550D, shot a HDR on set, shot a lens grid, match-moved the footage in SynthEyes, added some CG elements in C4D, rendered in Vray then comped it all together in After Effects. Thus, it will be a pretty in-depth tutorial . Music: Daft Punk from The Tron Legacy soundtrack. Track 2: The Grid. I had to [...]

My first tutorial is online.  This covers some basics in PFmatchit and how to export your matchmove to Cinema 4D.  More to come! PFmatchit and Cinema 4D Tutorial from Josh Johnson on Vimeo.