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  1. EAlexander
    Thank you! Yes, it is a bit clunky, and I find things that you can do in Cinema without thought take a lot of set up in unreal. But I'm addicted to that speed!
  2. EAlexander
    Playing around with the DMX lighting setup. This is a pretty basic animation, but since my main work is concert production design, this workflow could potentially be very exciting.
  3. EAlexander
    These from Stuz0r (Stuart) got me started: I also like Thaddeus : https://youtube.com/@azielarts?si=GgFDgeHBoi3JeNXp Josh is good too: https://youtube.com/@JoshToonen?si=YPei9zJoppzdZWDV
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    I'm learning it now (started a sketchbook in the Unreal section here on the forum) and it's a different mindset than Cinema4d for sure, but working in real time is addictive, especially for animation. Building in Redshift or Corona in cinema feel slow to me now. There is a quality loss, but I've found it to be minor so far and I'm rendering 1200 HD frames in about 3 minutes on a single 4090 with volumetrics. So I can rerender or even add another sequence or camera angle and have the clip in a few minutes. It's the most fun I've had in years on a computer.
  5. EAlexander
    Here is Procedural Content Generation used to make a forest. Similar to the Matrix object in Cinema, but you can see it all in real-time using high res scanned assets. Could use more work on the undergrowth layers, but I'm moving on to the next experiment.
  6. EAlexander
    Anyone catch this one? Merk using cinema to drive an AI render. His Instagram says coming soon.
  7. EAlexander
    And the secret ingredient: Talent.
  8. EAlexander
    Hi! Been a while since I've posted here. I did a big upgrade to my system, so I'm finally doing a deeper dive into Unreal and my mind is blown. Endless creativity once you get your head wrapped around the philosophies. Building in real time and rendering 1200 frames in 3 minutes is, well, unreal. Doing lots of short animations to learn the tools and create a consistent workflow. I've also never edited anything before, so cutting, editing and audio are all new areas for me to learn as well. I haven't had this much fun with 3d in years.
  9. EAlexander
    Mash wins the Thread!
  10. EAlexander
    Are the objects colored because they have a basic C4D material on them in that color or are they colored because the DISPLAY COLOR in the BASIC tab of each object is set to Custom or Layer? If display colors are set then take a look at this: If basic materials are already there, make your octane materials and holding ALT, drag your new material on top of the old material in the Material manager and it will replace the material globally.
  11. EAlexander
    Anybody catch this - Turbosquid (owned by Shutterstock) is working on this tech: https://www.turbosquid.com/ai-3d-generator Its all marketing right now for the public, but I bet there is some money behind this.
  12. EAlexander
    What if you link the Camera to the Sphere and move them suddenly to the side?
  13. EAlexander
    Here's what I do: Make the disc under your geometry. Add a Cinema Sky - not a Corona sky, a Cinema sky. Add the shadow catcher material to the Disc In the Shadow catcher material, change the MODE from Backplate to Environment Drag and Drop the Cinema Sky into the Environment Field in the Shadow catcher material Make a Physical material in Corona and apply this to the sky - this drives the color of your background Add a Corona sky and set it HDRI and add your hdri image to that. Uncheck VISIBLE DIRECTLY in the corona sky (I also hide it from viewport to make things clearer. I actually have a tutorial on this HERE
  14. EAlexander
    You'll never get it to pure white in render, when I need that, I just add it in photoshop by adding a vignette, but going white instead of black, so the image gets pure white around the edges in a subtle fade. Not in front of a computer, so guessing on the bottle issue: can you add a Corona compositing tag to the Shadow catcher geometry and hide it from Refraction? Can't remember if that's an option in that tag. Or, render with the shadow catcher geo turned off, then render with it in and composite them together in photoshop. e.
  15. EAlexander
    Yes - I know them well. Most of my figure collection is from them - I think they have the best scans. I've tried render people and a few others, but I like these the best. I haven't used Anima as I can do most of what I want with Cloners, but I do like having systems and user data control for some of these repetitive tasks.
  16. EAlexander
    I would kill for this in C4D. Yes, You can do it all already - I do this everyday as Concert renders are my business, but to have it all procedural and adjustable with sliders would be amazing. Great idea for a plug in. Thanks for posting.
  17. EAlexander
    So good - love these!
  18. EAlexander
    Hmmm - what makes this look is the thousands of stacked layers of thin film in the roll - I assume your model is not built this way. I would probably start with the Corona frosted glass preset and play with the settings to get the "frost" level correct. You could try adding a Clearcoat layer to get that outer sheen. Afraid I'm away from my machine so can't play with this. Hope that helps some.
  19. EAlexander
    Haha - this is amazing!
  20. EAlexander
    Nowhere is fully safe from fire, that was not the point. Having 100 backups of anything in one room is only as safe as that physical room is. It doesn't have to be cloud storage: having a hard drive at your parents house or a safe deposit box works too, but harder to update.
  21. EAlexander
    Redundant raid storage isn't bulletproof if all your files are in one physical location I. E. Fire. Theft, pipe brakes over your desk, etc. You need an off site backup as well to be truly safe. I have a sys raid box for old project storage, but it's backed up with Backblaze as well. Sorry, off topic, but wanted to point that out.
  22. EAlexander
    Wow - haven't posted here in forever! Can't believe it's been 8 months. What a crazy spring it's been. Hope everyone is well. Here is my entry into the Pixel Lab Jaguar material contest. I managed to squeeze this in between other jobs last March. Corona for Cinema.
  23. EAlexander
    I know it sounds lame, but the functionality of the S key for finding meshes in viewport or object manager is often overlooked and saves me so much time every hour of every day.
  24. EAlexander
    The best.
  25. EAlexander
    Have you tried checking the Normal direction? Select all the polygons while in Polygon mode and they should all be yellow. Any blue ones are reversed: right click on them and choose Reverse Normal or you can try Align Normals. Not sure if that's the problem, but that's the first thing I'd look at.
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