I’m not sure how I’ve missed Simon Russell’s work for so long but I came across his site this week and was very inspired. He has some great free resources and I wanted to make sure you know about them.

Gridify

Gridify is a free preset rig for generating really cool and intricate patterns with thinking particles. I immediately thought of sci-fi or technology and data type animations.

Spiralator

Spiralator is a similar free C4D Thinking Particles preset generator but it takes particles and creates spiral patterns. You can create random designs, sine waves, spirals or heart rate monitors easily.

Dig in and play around. These tools should help you out with some unique designs. Thanks to Simon Russell for sharing his work.

Go here to get the free Cinema4D presets and learn more about Simon