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Announcement: Octane Texture Pack Pro

I’m excited to team up with my friend Alessandro from Renderking to offer the Octane Texture Pack Pro! It has 100 incredibly detailed and high resolution textures. This product has been over a year in the making with any ior, dispersions and sss values physically correct to the real world. This pack is a must have for pro level textures!

Please click on thumbnails for a full res version to see the details!

Click here to buy now for only $59!

Requirements:

Octane 3.05 and above

Cinema 4D R15 and above

Click here to buy now for only $59!

Announcement: Pxl Dirt Rig for Octane: Grunge It Up!

I’m beyond stoked to share this Octane for C4D product. Quickly add complex dirt, grunge and worn looks to your materials. You can also add stickers and patterns. The best part is that it takes very complex mix materials, noises, shaders and layers and puts them all in a very easy to use interface which is fast and fun to play around with. I hope you find it useful! I teamed up with Cedric Henry, from PXLNTWRk to make this available to you.

C4D Tutorial: Using Layer Masks in the Reflectance Channel

Cinema 4D quick tip on getting more control of your shaders. Learn to use a feature in the reflectance channel called the layer mask to have part of your material be reflective and part of it be matte or non-reflective. Hope this helps you out!

Free Cinema 4D Xpresso Car Rig

I just stumbled on a really cool asset by a guy named Kangddan on Vimeo. It’s a really impressive free Car Rig for Cinema 4D. It’s pretty fully featured, just watch the video to see him go through all of the options. The text is in Chinese but I just copy/pasted into Google Translate if I was confused on anything!

Go here to download the C4D car rig

Free 3D Models: Tombstones and Crypts!

My friend Daniel Morrison is at it again! He’s the guy who is big into 3D photo scanning stuff. It’s pretty epic, you can check out his process etc. at remnantstudios.com.

He has quite the collection of free 3D models now! The process is super crazy too. For reference, this one tombstone model is made out of almost 200 photographs!! The result is a super realistic 3D model with 8K textures. In today’s set of freebies he’s giving away a tombstone, crypt, graveyard pillars and some stone chunks. Really cool stuff. Thanks Daniel!

Click here to get all the free 3D models!

Cinema 4D Tutorial: Free Buffer Script

This free buffer script for Cinema 4D will save you a TON of time! Object buffers kind of suck to set up, and this freebie will automate the process in one click. Massive thanks to Russ Gautier and Maxon/Cineversity for making this available to us. Here is the presentation and the script download link.

Free Greeble Displacement Map Generator Application

Just ran across an epic free app to make 8K res displacement maps (greeble style). It’s called JSplacement. Lots of options and variety to play with so you can customize them. I think there is even a way to add your own sprites. Pretty sweet! Level up your daily renders yo. Get the app here: https://windmillart.net/?p=jsplacement
Also, check out David’s tutorials here: www.eyedesyn.com/tutorials

Cinema 4D & Otoy Octane Tutorial: Shadow Catcher for Compositing

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up your Octane scene so you can “catch” shadows by using a Matte option. This will help out with your compositing in AE. Hope it helps!

Free C4D 3D Model: Windmill

Another freebie for the coffers! Don’t know if you knew this, but I’m 50% Dutch, so let’s do this. Free Dutch style windmill by my friend Rick Ellis. Check out his stuff here: rickdellis.com. Like always this freebie is available for commercial or personal use. Hup Holland! Enjoy!