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Here is the final teaser for Making It Look Great 7 – MoGraph Unleashed.

Making It Look Great 7 – Flourish from Tim Clapham on Vimeo.

Making It Look Great 7 – MoGraph Unleashed will be available on Motionworks next week.

Comprising six unique collections of tutorials on the Cinema4D MoGraph Module. In total almost 8hrs of professional training.

Follow helloluxx or Motionworks on Twitter to hear news of the availability. As soon as the download is online it will be tweeted to you all.

Here is a brief description of each series to whet your appetite.

Starting with the creation of a simple logo model, then breaking it apart polygon by polygon, a techni-coloured interior is revealed. Lit using Global Illumination and powered by dynamic forces, watch thousands of tiny letters, each an individual light source, falling, colliding and bouncing. After studying this collection, you will control the power of dynamics with your fingertips.

Subjects covered include:
Rigid Body Tag
Plain Effector
Random Effector
PolyFX
Global Illumination

Whether you wish to recreate a realistic print style halftone effect or build a giant stadium jumbotron structure, this set of classes explores the numerous options available when working with image based source material. Combining the power of the MoGraph Cloner in Grid Array mode, explore the potential the Shader Effector has to offer. Once integrated with the Color Shader, you will unleash unlimited possibilities for your own projects.

Subjects covered include:
Sort Clones
Shader Effector
Color Shader
Formula Effector

Based upon the popular theme of heraldry, this series of tutorials will provide you with a variety of strategies to assist develop your ideas into real world projects. Link Effectors to regular Cinema4D objects to harness the power of MoGraph within your established animation techniques. Deform objects along any path with the Spline Wrap deformer. Animate multiple objects in sequence by utilising the Time Offset feature. This class is jam packed with a huge combination of techniques you will use on a day to day basis.

Subjects covered include:
Spline Wrap
Time Offset
Random Effector
Delay Effector
Xpresso Sample Effector Node
Stacked Materials
Stick Texture Tag
Step Effector

Working with Motion Capture files such as the FBX format, this series of tutorials take you step by step through various techniques for creating animated elements from captured motion. Watch your motion design advance to new grounds with many possibilities to create natural flowing movement with your graphic components.

Subjects covered include:
Spline Effector
Random Effector
Tracer

Need swarms of bees? Shoals of fish? Maybe you simply want to move with the crowd? This collection will point you in the right direction. Streaming with an abundance of opportunities, control the crowds of parameters with ease as you guide them towards your goal.

Subjects covered include:
Spline Effector
Step Effector
Delay Effector
Random Effector
Target Effector

Attach visible lights onto multiple object vertices and watch as your clones move to the rhythm of the beat. Channel the power of the inheritance effector as your objects morph from one object to another, leaving a trail of ever decreasing light that flicker through the falloff. This workshop will guide you through the intricacies of some of the often misunderstood and rarely used MoGraph tools, such as the Matrix Object, Instance Object, Sound and Inheritance Effector.

Subjects covered include:
MoGraph Instance Object
Matrix Object
Inheritance Effector
Sound Effector
Beat Shader
Displace Deformer
Multi Shader
Sketch & Toon

Making It Look Great 7 – Coming Soon.

Many thanks to Selcuk Can Guven for sound design.

Making It Look Great 7 – Dynamics from Tim Clapham on Vimeo.

It was recently brought to my attention that a superb set of procedural shader presets has been made available to purchase. Eric Smit, the man behind this set creates some of the most stunning Cinema4D landscapes, so you can be sure of good quality with this product.

The LANDSCAPE SHADING KIT is a collection of 3D procedural Cinema 4D materials. 170 materials patiently designed to offer a high level of realism and flexibility. The whole kit is the most powerful solution for landscape texturing within Cinema 4D. It offers almost the same level of realism as photo based maps, without the limitations and frustrations of 2D mapping.

Created by Eric Smit, this looks to be an awesome collection and anyone who is working with Cinema4D to create landscapes should take a serious look at this collection.

Created with ease of use in mind, and for a very affordable price too.  Head on over to Eric’s website to read more about this stunning collection.

I’m sure all of you out there are familiar with the fantastic work that Trish and Chris Meyer offer the After Effects community through their website, Pro Video Coalition, the AE List and of course their awesome Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects books series.

I studied Creating Motion Graphics Edition One years ago when it was first released and it is incredible the amount of information they pack into those pages. I still have a copy of CMG Edition 4 sitting here on my desk right now. It is most definitely the bible for any Motion Graphics artist who uses Adobe After Effects.

Trish has recently posted a review on Pro Video Coalition of Making It Look Great 6, the latest Cinema4D training that I have released as part of the Motionworks Making It Look Great Series.

So if you are interested in buying the training and are looking for a review then head on over to Pro Video Coalition for an in depth review that spans three long pages.

Many thanks to Trish for spending the time to go through Making It Look Great and writing such a glowing review.

Nick over at Greyscale Gorilla has been holding Five Second Competitions for quite a while now.  If you are not familiar with these, then you should go and check out some of the past entries.

If you are ever needing an excuse to get creative (who needs an excuse hey?), but are a little stuck with the subject, then why not head on over to Greyscale Gorilla and take part in one of the competitions. They are always themed and on top of that you have a deadline too.

If you are after a copy of Making It Look Great 6, then now is your chance to grab a free copy.  That’s right, enter the 5 second competition and give yourself a chance to win a copy.

Deadline for entries is June 29th 2009, so don’t hesitate!

For more info on Making It Look Great 6, check out Motionworks.

If you want to read more about Nick’s 5 Second Competitions and you fancy your chances too, then head straight for the Greyscale Gorilla website for more information.

Good luck!  Can’t wait to see the entries.

Making It Look Great 6: Design and Production Techniques for Cinema 4D and After Effects is now available.

Work with me (Tim Clapham) through this 14 part, 8.5 hour video workshop. Jam-packed with techniques, tips and shortcuts, the workshop includes real-world techniques for getting the most out of the Cinema 4D Mograph module. Suitable for beginner and intermediate users or anyone serious about mastering Cinema 4D with After Effects at an industry level.

Visit Motionworks for a list of the subjects covered and an introduction movie.

As posted by Srek on CGTalk….

Hi all,
today MAXON made the latest update 11.026 available via the online updater and the website.
If you download the update from the website make sure it get’s stored without a .zip extension.
Especially on OS X it can happen that the browser incorrectly adds this. The manual update will not work with this wrongly named file and the user can’t unpack it anyway.

As for the update itself, it contains numerous bugfixes and it is heavily recommended to install it.

A big thanks goes to all users who sent their crashreports to MAXON. 11.026 includes several fixes that we were only able to implement due to many users reporting different variations of the problems.

Cheers
Björn

You can choose Help > Check For Updates to open the online updater.  The update should appear automatically.

Well we finally got around to hosting our own blog.  The google blog was far too limited and we’d prefer to have more control in the long term.

So we’ve jumped in and installed Wordpress.  Things are still in progress, so this space will evolve over the coming weeks / months.  However, we thought we’d start posting here now, as all the nuts and bolts are in place.

Feel free to post a comment or two.  Let us know if things are working ok for you.  Thanks for taking a look and we hope you pop back regularly.

Well I must say this blog has been collecting dust . . . My apologies for that. This year I shall try to keep the posts coming at regular intervals.

Lots of things have been happening for us at HYPA. We have gone global and there is now HYPA in Sydney Australia. I have moved to Sydney to head up the new venture and I must say I’m loving the people, city and certainly the weather. We are open and available for work, so if you are in need of some motion graphics then get in touch!

I had a meeting today with John Dickinson of Motionworks . John is a really great guy, and very talented too. It was real fun to meet up with him and discuss motion graphics, animation and all that stuff over a coffee. John does some fantastic training for After Effects and his work is top notch. We had a few ideas of some projects that we may well work on together. More about that in future postings.

I was lucky enough to have a few artworks selected for Los Logos 4 by Die Gelstalten Verlag. Look out for it at your local bookstore. It has some fantastic work.

At HYPA we are currently working on some graphics for the BBC. The program is called Explore and is already on air in the UK. Watch out for it Sunday nights, BBC2.

We are also involved in a channel rebrand which we cannot mention right now. More about that at a later date. It is certainly making full use of the MoGraph module.

I’ll be back again soon with some more tips & tricks, so come back often. . . This time, I will too!