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13 Dear C4D users, we are c4d archviz artist ourselves since like 20+ years, and i am very happy & proud to be able to announce the release 1.1 of our new tool for C4D artists, the “Q-TILE PRO | surface engine”. It is a mighty new artist driven c4d native plugin, which enables you to do ANY tile shapes or repeating surfaces, with ANY kind of variations, in easy ways! In addition it lets you make perfect non tiled, structure less surfaces, like asphalt, concrete, plaster, etc in a few clicks, which never show the usual un-wished repeating structures, we often see in even seamless texture use! It works with the internal #c4d engine, and direct within #corona, #vray, #redshift, #Octane, or via included auto-baking also in any other cpu or gpu engine, cloud or standalone renderer. the plugin is made by our team qucumber.at see detailed info on our pages: https://3dtools.info/tilepro and our facebook page announcement: Qucumber.at This is a dream come true for me, it is a tool i always wished for myself to have in C4D. it enables you high end surfacing, directly within C4D in unseen detail, variation and quality. For any tiles or non tiled surfaces! it works in the corona or rs node editor and IPRs of course, supporting c4d 19,20 and 21 for now. hope some will like it same as we do, we use it in almost any of our projects already. next days i also start a series of small help videos explaining the work flow, with example c4d files best greetings Stefan Laub CEO/lead artist at qucumber.at

WIP with a silent character. Had to be stylised and simple to fit the budget. I used a prerigged puppet and bound boolean splines with a posemorph for expression to the head. Tweaked the deformed splines to match the curve of the head with a FFD object. Simple xpresso to connect the sliders to the morphs.

Dear fellow C4D users! We are super happy to announce that our big update version 1.1 is available now for all. for our existing customers of course as a free update! The v1.1 update comes with a totally redesigned new and simpler to use GUI /user interface, and many new powerful features, based on your feedback, and several fixes. Some excerpt of the new feature List: –New streamlined GUI, with coloured “tabs”, that reflect the usual “1-2-3-4” setup work flow. new and improved drawing, new shape mirror and scale options -new axis tool, axis rotation tool to define texture directions, and axis few mode -new selection, box select and brush selection tools -new shape subdivision tools -new shape instances feature assign colour, randomize colour, randomize text ID, now can work be limited to selections –new shape instances feature, and new instance view mode new optimize command to automatic remove all double/overlaying shapes in one click -new “manage library” button replacing the old load and save buttons. -adjustable preview size of shape pre-sets -and its window -new shader pre-set library feature- -new Tex direction modes menu, to define the direction of textures in relation to the new axis -new flip modes, flip u, flip v, flip u & v, with % setting how many & of the textures affected by it. -new use seamless texture mode: it allows random offset, also if the shape scale is at 1 or lower -new “generate seamless tiling” option to use a “pseudo randomness” on the border to generate seamless shader or baking results.also if the shader not covers all of the object. Q-TILE-PRO makes sure it will be always seamless automatic, regardless if the mapping covers all surface in one tile or not. new round corner feature (separate from edge rounding, as many wished) new layer transparency via texture (alpha mask per layer) we also started a new You Tube Channel/Playlist for Q-TILE-PRO, with several new videos for learning: https://www.youtube.com/playlist… please subscribe to our new INFO CHANNEL:) we hope you like our new Q-TILE-PRO version as much as we do! Stefan Laub & The Qucumber.at | Q-TILE-PRO team! https://3dtools.info/q-tile-pro/

Ha! Yep - sounds like work in almost every industry! Big companies are bureaucratic. Sociopaths and self promoters get to wield the power. But hey, I’d rather be doing this than working down a coal mine 😂

Okay....I am a hobbyist and not in the animation/DCC industry at all. But I do work for an extremely large global corporation that has also topped the list as one of the best places to work in the US and globally. As great as that company is (and it is a great place to work), there are politics where I work. NEWS FLASH: Work politics are EVERYWHERE! In many cases, people misread the "inner circles" that get formed around management as office politics. But in reality, inner circles are natural. "Inner circles" get formed because people naturally gravitate to those who they trust, have worked with in the past and who have proven themselves. No one can succeed alone and we all need help along the way. Those that help you become part of your inner circle. It is pure human nature to have them and not some part of a subversive clique that she makes out. So everyone has them. She just doesn't know how to identify them and navigate them successfully and that has to do with how you manage your career. If you manage you career poorly, then you will find yourself on the outside looking in because you have not become part of other people's "inner circles". So it comes down to how you manage your career. There are people that I mentor where I work and I tell them that every career has 3 main phases: Phase 1: Build your name brand. When people hear your name, how do you want to be thought of? Do you step up when asked? Do you step up without being asked? Do you get things done on time and meet your commitments. Do you focus more on the issue than on the personality (little minds talk about people, big minds talk about the issue). Can you be trusted? Are you kind and polite (that still counts). When you speak up, do you speak with facts or do you speak with emotion. People are more likely to misread emotion than misread facts and misreading emotion can hurt your name brand (in short, better to be quiet if your position is more emotionally driven than fact driven). Do you put the company first or do you put yourself first (trust me - people can spot the difference). Do you have other people's backs? If you can show that you are looking out for others more than just yourself, your name brand grows tremendously. No one get's promoted based on the recommendation of a single person. Usually, it is a peer discussion among the management team. I have been in those discussions trying to get my person promoted and as long as at least one other manager agrees with my assessment, then the promotion goes through. So worry about other teams as well. Build your name brand with integrity and hard work and pretty soon you will be part of other people's inner circles. The more inner circles you belong to, the more opportunity will come your way. Phase 1 requires you to "pay your dues" because it requires years of hard work. No one said it will be easy. Also be patient because no matter where you go, everyone pays their dues. Phase 2: You have paid your dues in Phase 1. You have built a name brand within your company you can be proud of. Now comes the phase when you can trade on that name brand to get where you want to be in your career. With each inner circle you have worked your way into with hard work, your network grows. Use that network to look for and/or ask for opportunity. Remember, you have proven yourself at this point. So now when you ask for what you want in your career, people will listen. But in that discussion, you don't demand. You don't threaten. You ask. The answer may be "no" but accept that answer with grace because doing otherwise would threaten your name brand. If you continue to preserve your name brand in this phase, your opportunity will come. Now, if all you hear is "no" then you must go back to Phase 1. But you may want to restart Phase 1 with another company. That is a tough choice but one that may need to be made. But before you make that decision, ask for honest feedback as to why you keep hearing "no". You could blame others for having to go back to Phase 1. That may make you feel better but it is more destructive than constructive. Better to "own it" --- use the experience, no matter how bad it was, to improve yourself. Experience is a hard teacher and simply blaming others does not help you get the most from a bad experience. Phase 3: Staying Relevant. If you thought Phase 1 and 2 were tough, they are nothing compared to Phase 3. You have built your career to where you want it to be but at some point it is going to stagnate. In Phase 1 and 2, you have developed some level of expertise that the company depends on but over time, things change. That expertise may no longer be relevant or can be obtain cheaper somewhere else. At this point, you may start to wonder about job security because being stagnant is never healthy to anyone. So it is here that must throw yourself completely out of your comfort zone. It can be a completely different role - one that you were not "officially" trained to do. You could also step up once again to take on a BHAG - Big Hairy Audacious Goal. Trust me, no matter what you choose to stay relevant, you will be drinking from the fire hose in this phase. If managed properly, it will be a period of tremendous growth where you prove to yourself and to others that you can do other things. It is also quite liberating once you get through it. But what you have done is proven to others that you are valuable, capable of taking on any assignment -- and therefore, still relevant. Note that throwing yourself out of your comfort zone is not a one time event in Phase 3. It is something you must continually do whenever you feel stagnant in this final phase of your career. So does any of this sound easy? NO! It is NOT easy. Success at any career requires hard work....tons of hard work in fact. That's why they people ask you what do you do for "work". It is called "work" for a reason. To expect anything else is setting yourself up for failure. To get back to this women's video, there is nothing she has said that is not unique to the animation industry or Disney. Even if you become self-employed, unless you are completely free of providing a service for others, there will always be politics and deadlines. So while she pursues her own business, if she has a client, then she is still not working for herself --- she is working for a client. Trust me, the politics of gathering and then working with clients will be no different than what she thinks she is running away from at Disney and building your name brand is more critical when you are self-employed.