Cinema 4D Essential Training: 9 Particles and Dynamics

Introduces particles (used to simulate effects like snow, sparks, fog, or fire) and dynamics (which allow you to define how objects interact with their environment).

CINEMA 4D Essentials with Rob Garrott is a graduated introduction to this complex 3D modeling, rendering, and animation program, which breaks down into installments that can be completed within 2 hours. In this installment, Rob introduces particles, a cluster of objects used to simulate effects like snow, sparks, fog, or fire, and dynamics, which allow you to define how objects interact with their environment. The course covers creating a splash effect with particles, working with more advanced Thinking Particles, and how to understand the difference between the dynamics system's rigid bodies and soft bodies.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. The Basic Particle Engine

• Understanding the Emitter object
• Working with particle forces
• Particle exercise: Creating an impact splash

2. Thinking Particles

• Explaining the Thinking Particles (TP) workflow
• Breaking down the TP standard emitter
• Using TP with the MoGraph Tracer

3. Dynamics

• Understanding the dynamics engine
• Explaining the difference between Rigid and Soft Bodies
• Working with MoGraph and dynamics
• Combining TP and dynamics
• Creating dangling objects with spline dynamics

Conclusion

• Final thoughts