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	Doug Bassett view bio Cinema 4D C4D 9.5: Real-World 3D Animation Production In this article, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Doug Bassett reviews C4D 9.5: Real-World 3D Animation Production, by Larry Mitchell and published by Charles River Media; 1 edition; copyright (January 5, 2006), 432 pages; ISBN: 1584504374 and writes... ''If I had to tell you about this book in one sentence it would be that this book is the extension of the C4D Quick Start manual. You will learn much more about the 'how to' than the Quick Start and like the Quick Start, you will not get an explanation of the tools or why something works the way it does, but you will remain focused on the 'how to' and the project goal.'' Review back to top

	John Starr Dewar view bio Cinema 4D How to Control Keyframed Animation with XPresso In this article, John demonstrates the use of XPresso to control playback of keyframed animation in Cinema 4D. This functionality is not built into the program, and the Time track in the timeline is inadequate for many situations. John looked for a solution and found a surprisingly straightforward method. Tutorial back to top

	Joaquin Gil view bio Cinema 4D Xfrog 4 for Maya 6 Kino Gil, noted film effects artist and host team leader of Creative Cow's Maya forum, gives his impressions of one "the best kept secrets" in Computer Graphics Imagery. He gives an honest view of some of the strengths and weaknesses of the system and concludes that Xfrog 4 for Maya 6 ''..one of the best and most powerful 'plugins' for Maya I have found yet.'' Review back to top

	Todd Groves view bio Cinema 4D The Cinema 4D 9/9.1 Handbook In this article, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Todd Groves reviews The Cinema 4D 9/9.1 Handbook (Graphics Series) by Adam Watkins and Anson Call and published by Charles River Media; Book & CD-Rom edition, 426 pages, Copyright 2005, ISBN: 1584504021 and writes, ''...the moment I dove into it, I soon breathed a sigh of relief. Adam wastes no space between the front and back cover.'' and ''Though Adam indicates that The Cinema 4D 9/9.1 Handbook is 'best for beginners' most any user of Cinema 4D of any level of expertise will most likely find useful and helpful information inside the covers of this book'' Review back to top

	Sven Hauth view bio Cinema 4D Modeling and Animating a Rat with HyperNURBS In this tutorial, Sven Hauth demonstrates creating a more complex character with Cinema 4D XL 6.1 or above, a kind of a rat on two legs. He starts with the modeling process, then creates a bone skeleton and finally animates a simple walkcycle. Basic knowledge of C4D is helpful. Tutorial Cinema 4D Rigging a sun for facial animation in Cinema 4D In this tutorial, Sven Hauth will discuss the task of facial animation, and the methods that Cinema offers us to deal with it. Facial animation in this case means that he will primarily talk about animating the mouth - once you can do this, you can apply the same concepts to any other part of the face or whatever you would like to animate. After finishing it, you should be able to make your own characters talk and express emotion. Tutorial Cinema 4D Ping Pong In the beginning was the idea to get to know Cinema's bone and IK capabilities by making a simple character walk. There is a sculpture of two ping pong playing nuts-and-bolts guys in my bookshelf that I wanted to come alive. Eventually the idea of making one of them walk developed into a 45 sec. ping pong game. Tutorial back to top

	Michael Hurwicz view bio Autodesk 3ds Max HP XW4600 Workstation Creative Cow Leader Michael Hurwicz looks at The HP XW4600 Workstation and finds it a good value in terms of price/performance and productivity. Review back to top

	Mike Kroes view bio Cinema 4D A Guide to Computer Animation for tv, games multimedia and web by Marcia Kuperberg Mike Kroes takes a look at A Guide to Computer Animation for tv, games multimedia and web by Marcia Kuperberg. This book is in the Focal Press Visual Effects & Animation series. Review back to top

	Jannis Labelle view bio Cinema 4D Jannis Labelle reviews Digital Lighting & Rendering Jannis Labelle takes a look at Lighting & Rendering by Jeremy Birn, George Maestri and published by New Riders. Read on to find out why this book changed Jannis' mind abut non-specific software books. Review Cinema 4D Jannis Labelle demonstrates modelling and animating a bird in flight In this tutorial, Jannis Labelle demonstrates modelling and animating a bird in flight. This is a follow up of his head tutorial so he will not go into a great detail of describing techniques in minute detail, instead he will try to introduce you to some alternatives in modeling, texturing and animation. It is a tutorial for intermediate level users, you would need to know your way around the view ports, tools, the Attribute Manager and be comfortable with using Photoshop. Still, even as a beginner you will find a lot of information here, so with a bit of effort you should get going.The task will be to model a bird, texture it and animate it, using some shortcuts to demonstrate that there many ways to skin a cat, or a bird for that matter. Tutorial Cinema 4D Texturing A Head in Cinema 4D In this tutorial, Jannis Labelle demonstrates texturing a head in Cinema 4D and Bodypaint. Jannis says this is the tutorial that he wished he had when he first learned about texturing a mesh. He's written this tutorial so that others won't have to go through the headaches that he went through. This is not a tutorial for beginners. Tutorial Cinema 4D Modeling a Head in C4D In this tutorial, Jannis Labelle demonstrates modeling a head using the Edge-Extrude plugin. This is a tutorial for intermediate or advanced Modelers with Cinema 4D who already have an understanding of the modeling capabilities of the software. Although enthusiastic beginners can follow also with a little bit of perseverance. Jannis has tried to include as many screen shots as possible and tries to make the instructions clear and let the pictures talk for themselves. Of course this techniques can be easely followed with any program that can extrude edges, like Maya for instance. Tutorial back to top

	Cactus Dan Libisch view bio Cinema 4D Building a Stable Soft IK Leg Rig using Cinema 4D R8 Mocca After going through Maxon's Mime Mocca tutorial, Cactus Dan discovered that when he moved the controllers around, the rig didn't behave as he expected. He was quite discouraged and found himself almost at the point of giving up on Mocca and Soft IK, but needless to say, Cactus Dan is not one to easily give up. In this tutorial, Cactus Dan Libisch shares what he learned by working through the problems. Tutorial Cinema 4D Snow Top Mountain Tutorial In this tutorial, Cactus Dan creates a snow covered mountain using Cinema 4D XL 7.3 and the bhodiNut NUKEI shader. Tutorial back to top

	Mylenium view bio Cinema 4D MoGraph - Part IX - Using the Sound Effector In his last article in this series, Mylenium finally takes a look at working with sound in MoGraph, exploring techniques and tricks that will allow you to tie in sound with motion and create stunning visuals. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Cinema 4D Using the Tracer to Create the iPod Commercial With the Tracer tool covered in the last article, almost inevitably the current iPod nano ads spring to mind. Let's see what Mylenium has to tell us on how you cann approach recreating them inside Cinema 4D. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Cinema 4D Painting with Light: The Tracer Object Looking at the Tracer tool, Mylenium provides some basic clues for creating the now ever more popular light streaks look using this tool as well as other techniques. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Cinema 4D MoGraph Part VI: Text Providing a look at the MoGraph text tool and exploring how to use it along with other tools, Mylenium continues his series. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Cinema 4D MoGraph Part V: Examples - Knowledge Applied In this part 5 of our 'Exploring MoGraph' series, Mylenium demonstrates applying our acquired knowledge by analysing and studying a few examples. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Cinema 4D MoGraph Part IV: Effectors - Individual Settings Following on with Effectors in this part 4 of the MoGraph series, Mylenium explains what each of them is good for and when you would use them. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Cinema 4D MoGraph - Part III - Effectors - Shared Settings Now that we know how to create armies of clones, effectors will help us to control them. Learn how by downloading and viewing Mylenium's article. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Cinema 4D MoGraph Cloner II: Cloner, Matrix, Instance Continuing our series on the MoGraph, Mylenium takes another hard look at the Cloner and its associated 'Blend' mode as well as the other two multiplication tools, the Matrix and Instance objects. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Cinema 4D MoGraph - Part I - Cloner In this article, Mylenium is providing insights into the basic principles of working with the Cloner. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Cinema 4D Cinema 4D 9.6 and MoGraph In this article, Mylenium is taking a long hard look at Cinema 4D and the new MoGraph module. When Maxon revealed it at NAB this year, everybody was excited and we are trying to find out, if it lives up to people's expectations. Review Cinema 4D How modo can make your life easier: Texture Baking Last time, CreativeCOW leader Mylenium showed you how to texture your logo. So far, modo is more or less just a modeler with a built-in renderer for still images. Since it has no animation or other tools of that kind, you may want may want to transfer your textures and models to other programs. In this video, Mylenium will demonstrate how to do just that. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Cinema 4D How modo can make your life easier: Texturing In part three of our series on Luxology's modo 201, CreativeCOW leader Mylenium will focus on texturing in modo. Next in the series he'll discuss baking. Stay tuned. Review, Tutorial, Video Tutorial Cinema 4D How modo can make your life easier: Modeling In part two of our series on Luxology's modo 201, CreativeCOW leader Mylenium will focus on modeling in modo. Next in the series will discuss texturing. Stay tuned. Review, Tutorial, Video Tutorial Adobe Photoshop How modo can make your life easier: Image Synth In this series of articles CreatveCOW leader Mylenium takes a look at Luxology's modo 201 and how it can help you make your daily work more efficient even if you are not yet a 3D artist. Moreover he tries to provide some guidance why you possibly should consider it to complement your arsenal if you are already using 3D programs such as Maxon's Cinema 4D. In this first video, Mylenium looks at a part of modo that isn't actually a part of modo. Included in the package is ImageSynth which is a standalone plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS or later and Mylenium will demonstrate how and why you should use it. Tutorial, Video Tutorial back to top

	Aharon Rabinowitz view bio Cinema 4D Creating the 3D Ribbon Effect In this Video Tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Aharon Rabinowitz demonstrates how to quickly create the popular 3D ribbon effect in Maxon Cinema 4D and Maya. Tutorial, Video Tutorial back to top

	Randy Rives view bio Cinema 4D Randy Rives reviews 'The Cinema 4D XL Handbook (Graphic Series)' by Adam Watkins In this article, Randy Rives examines the book ''Cinema 4D XL (Graphic Series)'' by Adam Watkins. In his review, Randy gives his why he thinks you should buy the book published by Charles River Media. Review back to top

	Greg Serafin view bio Cinema 4D Greg Serafin reviews: Cinema 4D The Artist's Project Sourcebook Greg Serafin reviews CINEMA 4D: The Artist's Project Sourcebook written by Anne Powers, and published by CMP Books, 368 pages, July 2004, ISBN: 1-57820-242-6, and finds it to offer instruction and inspiration for users of Maxon's Cinema 4D, a powerful 3D modelling, animation and rendering software application. Often an high-end app may prove intimidating to the newbie and yet the advanced user may seek more complex uses and desire further instruction. Anne Powers provides to a broad audience an excellent and interesting textbook manual. In one sentence: If, like yours truly, you are that kind of a person for whom reading manuals sits somewhere close to the end of your priorities list, then this book is for you Review back to top

	Mark Simpson view bio Cinema 4D Mark Simpson demonstrates modelling arches In this article Mark Simpson discusses a technique to to model arches using Cinema 4D. Tutorial Cinema 4D Mark Simpson looks at ''Maxon Cinema 4D 7'' by Arndt von Koenigsmarck of Vreel-3D