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03-2. Rendering Cinema 4D Hair with Arnold and XGen Part 2

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18 Oct
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve4fPJ4b4GY In this tutorial we'll continue where we left off using the character object and some vibrate tags to drive some base level secondary animation. We'll also cover using alembic to cache our animations, and how to prep Cinema 4D hair for successful use in Maya.

03. Rendering Cinema 4D Hair with Arnold and XGen Part 1

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18 Oct
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NzaAXqPyaM In this tutorial we'll be discussing a little bit of Cinema 4D's character object and animating with it using Logiciel Lumiere's new Genesis Template, and Genesis Weight Transfer plugin. We'll also go over Cinema 4D's hair tools and create a reusable asset.

02. A versioning and modular workflow with references

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15 Aug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VChv5vt1jnY In this tutorial we'll take a look at Xref in Cinema 4D specifically, and using it in a broader modular, and pipeline centric workflow that allows for collaboration, and ease of organization as well as versioning. We'll detail out what Xrefs are and how we can use Cinema 4D techniques to apply animations and override things while still allowing us to have master completed assets.

01. A Pipeline Introduction

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15 Aug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PoSFr2mre8 In this tutorial we'll cover why a pipeline is so important, and reiterate my whole Multi App Workflows strategy. We'll learn how some new formats like alembic and OpenVDB have changed the game, and how some plugins support various pipeline flows.

05. Animating the third stage of the animation

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14 Aug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXNHSqFd_B4 In this tutorial we'll finish up the Motionbuilder animation by using Story to again add more motion capture to our shot. We'll cover flattening our layers to clean things up, as well as solidifying plotting data.