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Creating Splines in Cinema 4D
Creating Sweep Nurbs in Cinema 4D
Space Ship Model for Cinema 4D Space Scene
Using Viewport Windows in Cinema 4D
Reshaping Objects in Cinema 4D
Null Objects for Cinema 4D Space Scene
Asteroid Belt for Cinema 4D Space Scene
Duplicating Ateroids for Cinema 4D Space Scene
Creating a Planet for Cinema 4D Space Scene
Using the Camera Dialog Box in Cinema 4D
Adding Sunlight to Cinema 4D Space Scene
Creating Shadows for Cinema 4D Space Scene
Adding Lights to Cinema 4D Space Scene
Creating Texture Maps in Cinema 4D
Adding Animation to Cinema 4D Space Scene
Summary: How to finish up the space ship for the space scene with Cinema 4D; learn more about 3D modeling, rendering, and animation software in this free instructional video.
John Carstarphen is an experienced independent filmmaker, screenwriter, animator and teacher. His work as a writer/director has been seen in international film festivals including...read more
"JOHN CARSTARPHEN: Hi. This is John Carstarphen for Expert Village. The primitives that you worked with are just geometrical abstractions. In other words, you can't really shape or mold or do anything with them because there's really nothing there. It's sort of a mathematical algorithm. And what you have to do in 3D is to take shapes, these algorithms, drop them in to other objects, and those other objects or other functions make these primitive objects useful. So there's not much we can do with this sphere right now. We can do a simple resize, but that's not really changing the shape of it. So what we'll need to do is convert this object to a polygon object. And we do that by going to structure>make editable and if we click on the polygon tool, you'll notice now that we have a number of polygons on the object. These polygons then allow us to reshape and redesign the object in any way that we like. So we're going to create a metaball object and we're going to drop our new polygon sphere in to the metaball object, then we will scale this metaball object and as you can see, we can now mold the object, the sphere, into more of an egg-like shape."
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sam3352 said
on 8/2/2008 When i try and reshape the Metaball object; when i make it bigger it increases the subdivision and when i make it smaller it decreases the subdivision until it cant get much smaller (maybe due to graphics) but either way, it shouldn't, well it doesnt on yours, and because of it i cannot really shape the metaball object.
Excellent tutorials, thanks.