DasFrodo

Love it! The pixel / retro look is really, really well made, especially the reduced color palette. Are you able to show more of it, like full size animation via YouTube / Vimeo instead of those *.gif files? Really interested to see how the effect looks uncompressed.

That'd be super great! Lighting is the one thing I still struggle with a lot, granted I haven't invested too much time into actually perfecting it. Simple question, do you work on these renders afterwards in Photoshop or something similar? Or do you use the renders as they are? I feel like Corona NAILS those rough surfaces like no other engine, looks silky smooth.

Man your renders are always so clean... please teach me 😁

Refund?

I haven't contacted support yet, no. R20 is good enough for me right now so I don't worry too much about it, but it's on my to-do list. I know my way around PCs so of course, I did that. No process is running after it crashes, it's just gone completely and won't start again. The interesting thing is that the process actually starts up again, it's just stuck at something around 8% CPU and 250MB RAM usage.

Let's hope this fixes my random crashing issues. The worst part about those isn't the crashes themselves but that I cannot start C4D again unless I sign off my windows user account and sign in again or do a complete reboot. I've switched back to R20 for this reason for the time being.

Insydium has 40% off selected products: https://insydium.ltd/ I don't know what exactly "selected" entails but it's at least X-Particles & Cycles. Getting Cycles as we speak :3

Consoles go 30FPS or below constantly. In fact, the NORM is 30FPS for console titles as soon as you have something that looks good or isn't an indie title. There is not many titles that target 60FPS and most of these are racing titles. RDR 2 for example runs like c**p. The game constatly struggles to keep 30FPS and in big cities you're lucky if you reach 25. I consider this practically unplayable because not only is the framerate low, the input lag is also extremely high. That's you though. I have no issue with Netflix and others because I'm not attached to any movies or shows, but if you buy stuff that is bound to a certain platform you always risk losing EVERYTHING if that platform goes down. Blu-Rays will always be playable. Physical game discs will always be playable (if the game isn't bound to some arbitary online service). Even if every last console of a certain generation is gone there's always going to be emulators. Game preservation is a huge thing and it's important to remember how easy just playing a MP4 file is and always will be, but how hard it is to replicate a certain hardware environment. If THAT is the future gaming is dead to me. I will not feed up with tons of input lag, no control over my system or my games, no moddability whatsoever, no tinkering with my own system, no preservation if I want to play a certain game ten years later and not to mention, ANOTHER subscription service that wants my money. The sheer fact that Stadia asks for full price for titles that are years old and then doesn't even run them at the promised 4k 60FPS let alone max graphics settings is a really, really bad joke in my opinion. That is why I hope it crashes and burns. It's bad for the consumer and perfect for the corporate machine.

I can certainly see the appeal for software, but I'd rather not have that stuff tinkering with my games. The Foundry tried something like this, called "Athera". They're shutting it down now though as it doesn't some like anybody used it. As for Stadia: The inputlag is awful. I can't play with that at all. Doesn't matter what game. If you're used to consoles with sh*** 30fps then maybe, yeah. But once you've played on a G-Sync or Freesync Monitor with high framerates and refreshrates it's impossible to ignore how bad the inputlag is. Then there's the issue with not owning anything. I know we technically don't own any software anyways, we just buy the license to use it, but still. Imagine Google get's tons of good exclusives for their platform but decide to shut it down in 5 years because it's not profitable... bye bye to those games. You'll never ever see them again or be able to play them because nobody ever had them on their PCs. I hate this thought and I hope game streaming crashes and burns. As a complementary system to play on the go, sure, why not. But stuff like this always takes over when it's accepted as norm, just like microtransactions.

As annoying as memes can be, it's still the best thing right after free knowledge and communication that spawned from the internet, imho 😉

That's awfully lowpoly even for a pre-subdivision model though 😅

The wrap around the handlebar doesn't look right, other than that I really dig these renders!

That is some awesome stuff! Are you planning to do some tutorials on this, or at least provide the C4D files? I'd be really interested in how you achieved this stuff without any plugins.

You... you have never heard of Guardians of the Galaxy? How?

The guy looks like he's a cross between Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars.

I guess it entirely depends on what quality you need, but I don't think you can get anywhere near this without plugins.