Just wanted to give everyone a heads up. The new issue of 3D World Magazine (issue 146) will feature an article I wrote accompanied by over 150 minutes of tutorial video. It will be on sale in UK newsagents July 26th and on sale in US newstands from August 19th. Hope you enjoy it. Link to 3D World site announcement.

Just some R&D I was doing with the cloth engine and R12 dynamics. Thought I would share some of the things I found out. Scene files: Cloth & Dynamics Scene Files

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 [...]

Quick Tip number two: Using SynthEyes to generate a 2D tracker in After Effects.

Here is a quick tip when working with greenscreen footage inside of Cinema 4D.

I will have a Cinema 4D quick tip up this week and I just bought a Canon 550D so I can go out and shoot my own footage for tutorials and the occasional short film:). My first video test with T2i.  Get ready for some fun tutorials!

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.