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3 Professional Product Lighting Breakdowns + My C4D Lighting Files (3D Products not included)
Friends,let me share these 3 Professional Product Lighting Breakdowns + C4D Lighting/Stage Files with you.As I explained in my post entry on 14th December, I can´t share the 3D models of the bottles with you, but I still share some really strong lighting knowledge + the C4D lighting files. So I would say... it´s stil...
These Cinema 4D Perfume Bottles are no longer included in the Knights Tier: Here is Why ( + Yes, I´m working on new costum Assets for you)
Friends,First let me reassure you that I am absolutely thankful that thanks to your support, I was able to build up one of the leading C4D learning /teaching communities over the last 4 years.Trust me: I have cool plans for the 3D Bonfire Patreon and Youtube channels / communities for 2025. I don´t have any reasons/in...
Americas Cup Louis Vuitton Project Breakdown Part 03
Friends,Just one more design theory lessonbefore we dive into C4D and I will break down one or two of the techniques/files from the project for you!I´m sure, you are especially curious about the nice "particle-lines-grid" effect from the thumbnail, right?
Americas Cup Louis Vuitton Project Breakdown Part 02
Alright Friends,I know, I´m going very much into the details but I just wanted to take the chance to give you detailed insights into the design workflow / thinking in my client projects.Besides the C4D techniques, I´m sure these insights can be useful especially for new artists who don´t have so many client experie...
Americas Cup Louis Vuitton Project Breakdown Part 01
Friends,Let´s jump into my breakdown/recap of this title sequence for the 37th America´s Cup sponsored by Louis Vuitton.First I talk in general about theoverall process in such projects to give you a good overview/feeling about how it is to work as a professional 3D Artist.Of course every project is different and dif...
I share Production Insights into this latest Client Project this Week
Hi Friends,one of my latest clients gave my green lights to talk about the project on which I teamed-up with them. I share already some styleframes with you that I created for the animation piece, but let me give you a full breakdown of my part in the project later this week!Best,Markus
My New Favorite Lighting Technique
Friends!I never thought about clicking onto this magical buttonand get access to a way more easy way to create my lightsexactly how I want them to be.Especially for product shots, were the light just has to be tweaked until perfection, this is a very powerful way to go!Of course I will still use my "traditional me...
Basic Curtain Setup C4D File ( It´s really just a Curtain)
Friends,another C4D File I must have missed to share. Sorry for that!Here it comes. It´s really just a curtain which opens with some keyframes.But you can see, I just lately used such a curtain in this perfume bottle shot as a background.Depending on the resolution that you want for the cloth, you can increase or decr...
Microsoft Loop Logo Animation C4D File
Friends,it looks like I have missed to share this file!I think there is not so much about this one, it´s just the basic logo animation with some keyframes. For the material setup, please scroll down in my patreon timeline to the 2 tutorials. I´m sure I talked a little bit about the shaders that I tried for the logo.S...
C4D 2025.1 Modernized Boolean System? Ok Maxon, now you have my Attention!
Friends,I didn´t had a chance to dive into the new C4D 2025.1version so far but I´m just seeing that C4D got a new modernized boolean system!That is indeed something that I´m a very curious and hyped about, because...oh man, you know, all of those latest assets/shapes for the perfume playground are all modeled with ...
LEDGER Colors 2024
Friends,I had the pleasure to team-up with one of my favorite studios https://magnane.com/and we created some very smooth crystal/stones C4D magic for LEDGER Colors 2024.For now, have a look here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/213409975/Ledger-Colors-2024There´s also a nice article on stashmedia: https://www.stashm...
I learned some new Lighting Tricks
Friends,I was re-visiting my previous Dior Homme lighting tutorial and nowadays, I would do it a little bit differently. Let´s say: I learned some new tricks.Therefore, let´s study this kind of light setup soon.See you soon!
Product Rendering + Abstract Playful Architecture
Hi Friends,here is a lesson on what you can do with the latest assets / projectfiles to create some super-nice product shots! Have a nice weekend everyone :-).Best,Markus
Free Shop Item for Knights: Perfume Playgrounds 2 Environment C4D Files (without Perfume Bottles)
I will share 2 abstract environment files with you. One is "meshed" and the other is still with it´s "volume builder/mesher" setups active, in case you want to change the shapes.Perfumes are not included in this file.I will also provide you with a tutorial soon on how to use the file in the best way, b...
Perfume Playgrounds 2 Environment C4D Files (without Perfume Bottles)
I will share 2 abstract environment files with you. One is "meshed" and the other is still with it´s "volume builder/mesher" setups active, in case you want to change the shapes. The perfumes are not included in this file. I will also provide you with a tutorial soon on how to use the file in the bes...
Last Teaser for "Perfume Playgrounds" - Training + Assets Today
Friends,for todays special "Black Friday" Training + Assets I just wanted to do one last teaser and ask you: Which of those versions is your favorite! I am just really curious.I´m gonna share the C4D playground projectfile + training lesson later today.See you very soon!
This will be our super-detailed Playground for the upcoming Tutorial!
Trust me Friends, this scene will be a perfect playgroundto arrange all kind of nice "photo-shootings" with our perfume bottles! I made it intentionally a bit more complex, so you can find nice angles/situations all over the stage.Also, these costum-made shapeswill be perfect assets to use them in a more reduce...
Working on the Lessons for this Week, created those first Renderings
Testing different scene setups and playing with different ideas takes me a bit more time then expected, but I´ll start recording soon.Do you have a favorite out of those 3?
Design with me and learn how I work in a Client Project Part 01
Hi Friends,Follow me along while I freestyle a scene for a potential shot from a client project. I promise you: At least once in your career you will let a client product get manufactured in some kind of cool/fun factory and let these products fly through some pipe-system.So common, I think you really should be able to...
Modelling Tools for Superfast Design Iterations (to make your Clients happy) Part 03
Here´s an important addition, in case you want to keep your setup a bit more procedural.But fo rnow, enough about spline-based modelling. Next I want to share some very important knowledge about boolean-operation-based modelling, to create interesting shapes superfast.
Modelling Tools for Superfast Design Iterations (to make your Clients happy) Part 02
It´s Bevel Time!Can´t mention this enough, how important the perfect bevels on your edges are. If you get them right, it just makes the difference between an average rendering and a perfect one.
Modelling Tools for Superfast Design Iterations (to make your Clients happy) Part 01
Friends,finally its content sharing time here on patreon! And hey, I know, I know... you might say/think: Markus, this is boring stuff man!I don´t need that kind of tools in my skillset. But just trust me that I use these "boring" tools on a daily basis when I design for clients.In this first lesson I focus on...
Thinking about November Content
Friends,the "Age of Cubes" is overand we have to finally move on! I haven´t made any decisions on November´s content so far so please understand these images just as some placeholders! But I´ll make sure that you will get some of the good stuff, for sure.You know that I´m a huge fan of all the 3D magic, wor...
Advanced Mograph Techniques: Project Breakdown 03 + C4D File
Last cubes + mograph lesson (at least for now)! I think we did it. Let´s move on!
Master these Cinema 4D Tools to Design for S-Tier Clients like Microsoft (successfully)
Friends,this is a short free intro on my youtube channelto the latest lessons which are exclusively here for you guys on my patreon. It has a bit of a catchy/cheesy title, but well... I really mean it like that haha.Mograph + Fields are just used in all my client projects to some extent and you just have to master them...
Advanced Mograph Techniques: Project Breakdown 02 + C4D File
In this one I´m varying the overall approach just slightly by working with mograph selectionsand different cloner systems.One last breakdown in October tomorrow and then we can start something new!
Advanced Mograph Techniques: Project Breakdown 01 + C4D File
Friends,I decided to break down 3 more C4D files, inspired by one of my latest client projects for Kongsberg Digital and Microsoft, just to make sure, you understand all bits and pieces about these techniques.I know, I know. You have probably seen enough cubes by now for this month. But there are still some nice learni...
Returning a Favor: Exclusive Tutorial for "Motion and Design"
Friends,as you might remember, my buddy Motion and Designhelped me last month with an exclusive guest-tutorial about "Softbody and Jellyfish" here on my patreon.Now it´s on me to return the favor, so I recorded another "Kongsberg x Microsoft" lesson exclusively for his patreon page https://www.patreon....
Kongsberg Digital x Microsoft: Projectfile 02
And here is another file, inspired by my latest project.It´s just so much fun to explore these spaces, which open up when you erase fractions of the cube instances. Almost like sculpting with C4D noisesor something like that.Check out these different resolutions for different styles. You got a favorite?
Kongsberg Digital x Microsoft: Projectfile 01
Hi Friends,I will be back next week with C4D Training, but for today, let me share an example file with you which includes a lot of the ideas/principles that I was talking about in the last lesson.I would suggest, you just go and activate the effectors one by one and see how I used it´s shader field with a noise to ac...
