Cinema 4D - The Industry Standard

[Anonymous]

Maxon has recently upgraded their flagship product, Cinema 4D to version 10. They have also released a plug-in for ArchiCAD 10. These programs make for a terrific pair, ease of use, mature feature sets, speed and wonderful workflow.

For several months I have been putting other software packages through my personal learning curve and user testing. I work with the software and post my experiences in threads like this at the Talk.

I enjoy the fact that so many views happen within the threads. Better yet, I enjoy when others kick in their experiences with the subject software. No need to butt in with examples from other software programs, it is more interesting to just fully explore a single package - which in this thread is Cinema 4D. There are many existing architectural users of this fine piece of software and I call upon them to post recent examples of (WIP) work in progress and final renders. Not everything is perfect and there are currently a few kinks in the plug-in, but I will get into explaining that later.

If this is your first introduction to C4D, trust me it won't be your last. Nemechek is the parent company of Maxon and the C4D suite. News is that Nemecheck is or will soon own GraphiSoft and ArchiCAD. Just put two and two together.

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I'll start the thread with a quick example scene I assembled with bits and parts laying around on my hard drive. Tree entourage by xFrog, a snowy hillside from an example file on the internet, sky effect built into C4D, building from an ArchiCAD training file I use at the aBPa office in San Diego. All of this thrown together within 30 minutes, the render took 2 hrs. on a G5 dual 2GHz.

Cinema is the king when it comes to import/export. If you can get your entourage into practically any export format, chances are C4D will be able to import it. This is an extremely important factor to creativity. Now that I have gotten past my need to throw together something in C4D v10. It it time to slow down and create some examples of workflow issues, speed tests realistic rendering techniques. Once again I ask for help from other C4D users who can post examples, please jump right in - the water is fine and with a little MAXON soap you get a squeaky clean render.


Links to more info:

Architectural Examples:
http://www.maxon.net/pages/dyn_files/dyn_htx/htx/sol_archi_e.html
ArchiCAD related links:
http://www.maxon.net/pages/solutions/archicad/archicad_e.html
Achievements:
http://www.maxon.net/pages/dyn_files/dyn_htx/htx/press_e.html

[Dwight]

Burginger = Number One Creepy - almost screen-smashing - Avatar Award

[__archiben]

Dwight wrote:
Burginger = Number One Creepy - almost screen-smashing - Avatar Award

it was pretty good. but it seems to have gone missing . . . mr burginger?

[Anonymous]

Yes, I removed it. Sorry but Dwight got me thinking about the liability of hundreds of AC users slapping their flat screens with a fly swatter.


(actually, I wanted to replace it with my web site - subliminal isn't it?)

I just came across this neat video showing the work flow for ArchiCAD and C4D. It is nice to see I have been doing it right all along. Check it out.

http://www.maxon.net/pages/products/editions/architecture/work_mov.html

[Dwight]

What with the garbage strike this summer and all being a bad memory....

"Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a ripe banana"

[Anonymous]

Cinema4D R11.5 is out and you should take a minute to check out their website at http://www.Maxon.net

Here is an interesting animation http://www.maxon.net/home/quicklinks/aixsponza-no-keyframes.html