While there are many other big updates, I was oddly entranced by the Thin Film Shader. In Maxon’s example, they used puff balls purchased from Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Store as track points, measured the physical distance between them, tracked the objects in Cinema 4D R18, entered the distance between the puff balls and boom! A sweet Transformer-like helmet was tracked with the actor’s head movement needing only minor adjustments. Voronoi Fracture Object works in conjunction with dynamics and allows you to quickly break through a wall or even procedurally slice and dice vegetables as Babb and Barrett showed using spline or polygon shapes.īuilding on Cinema 4D’s existing Motion Tracking, Object Motion Tracking allows the user to track models and other 3D-based objects into real-world footage with less back and forth round-tripping in Adobe After Effects and Cinema 4D via Cineware. My three favorite updates based off my preview are: the Voronoi Fracture Object, Object Motion Tracking and Thin Film Shader (and a bonus the OpenGL viewport display previews Reflections, Ambient Occlusion and Displacement Mapping). Once you hear Barrett’s voice you will know who I am talking about he’s definitely given a lot of us some great tips and awesome entry into working in Cinema 4D.

While I am planning on doing a full review of R18 once it becomes available, I got a preview of the update from Maxon US president/CEO Paul Babb and Maxon Cineversity tutorialist-staple and VP of operations for Maxon US Rick Barrett. The new release is scheduled to ship this September. During SIGGRAPH 2016, Maxon announced an update to its Cinema 4D to R18.

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