Yes, another Black Friday sale, it seems thats all we’ve been hearing about for the past week. 💤
I wouldn’t be able not to thank you for your support over the last year and for this entire weekend I’m taking 30% off all Muse Creative products. Use the code “BLKFRDY” on checkout and a third will be knocked off the top.
Check out our products in the store.
We’ve recently completed the fourth instalment of Diffusion – Designer Materials and are delighted with the positive feedback we’ve received.
With the next collection brewing, we want to make sure we tailor this product as much as humanly possible, giving you the best value for money with targeted, purposeful materials – allowing your ideas and concepts to come to life.
We’d love it if you could take 2 minutes out of your day, and answer 5 easy questions about 3d materials and your needs for rendering! It would go a long way in helping us customise future products and creating assets you need most.
To thank you, 10 lucky submissions, will each win themselves any product in the Diffusion range.
Click here to start the quick survey!
Thank you!
We’ve begun uploading some free assets donated by awesome people in the Cinema 4D community.
This week you’ll be able to download a fantastic Edison Lamp 3D model as well as a custom Xpresso rig for creating gunfire.
If you have any great assets to share with our community, please take 5 minutes to zip them and click here to email me directly – to get some exposure and help grow this amazing community.
Have an amazing week and be sure to check back every week for more great and free 3D assets for Cinema 4D.
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I want to thank you for being a part of the Muse Creative community by offering you an opportunity to become an affiliate and get paid up to 30% commission on every sale you refer. In today’s day and age, passive income is key to creating financial wealth and this is a great opportunity to take advantage of.
Our store is run on a platform called Avangate and I’ve made my products available through the Avangate Affiliate Network that has made it super easy for you to begin spreading the word of our quality products to your friends and colleagues. To start selling, all you need to do is display the product information and “Buy Now” links on your website.
When a visitor follows a link or banner from your site, Avangate keeps track of your Affiliate ID for 120 calendar days. That’s 4 months during which any order placed by the same user guarantees your affiliate commission.
We take care of the ordering process, product delivery and customer support.
You will also benefit from comprehensive affiliate reports that will show you exactly how you perform.
You will get your commissions every month, either transferred to your Avangate Prepaid Debit MasterCard or sent via wire transfer, check or PayPal.
Use every available channel of promotion you have – website, newsletter, etc! Remember – the more referral links you create, the more chances you have to make money from your web site!
If you have any questions around this, please don’t hesitate to contact me, I’d be happy to assist you.
Happy Rendering!
Often as designers and 3D artists, during the creation process we are often faced with roadblocks in how to achieve a certain look or how to complete a needed task to help us achieve our vision and art direction. There’s nothing more frustrating than battling with a “small” issue and wasting valuable hours on it when you have no one to ask for help. The upside to it though, is that you learn from it and you’ll more than likely never forget how to do it again.
That being said, if you’re ever in a bind or have a burning question about Cinema 4D or Adobe CC, I’d love to help. I’m a sucker for a good question and would enjoy the opportunity to help you solve your problem and progress forward with your work.
This is an open invitation for any beginner or intermediate users in C4D and anything up to advanced users in Adobe CC to follow me on twitter (@eugeneopperman), and if you’re ever stuck, drop me a tweet and I’ll do my best to help you out.
I’d love you to also take 2 minutes to read my article Cinema 4D Asset Drive and donate an old C4D asset for the community to be able to use. It’s a great “Pay it forward” campaign and you stand a chance of winning some awesome prizes.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
E
One of the greatest reasons we are here as artists and creatives is to serve. Now that’s a big statement for some reading this, but take a second and think about it. We give our talents everyday in the search for happiness and expression, and there’s nothing as satisfying as the art of creation and being able to share it with the world. It’s our identity and personality all neatly packaged for the world to see.
In the creation process, we are often lead down many roads and iterations of our designs – they change form and scale and we continuously craft and refine them until the final product slowly reveals itself to us, and only then do we call it done.
Part of creating means experimenting, practicing techniques and refining skills and in that process we often land up with a library of assets that for some, never see the light of day. These assets stay in a dusty “one day” folder on a hard drive somewhere, hoping you’ll be reminded of them someday and you’ll be able to use them in a project and only then share them with the world. It could be anything, but it was something you put your time and effort into and that helped you grow.
This is a call to all Cinema 4D artists, I would like you to go into your dusty old “one day” folders on your hard drive and find some C4D assets that you can share with our community. It could be anything from models to textures, presets, plugins, scripts, scenes or even rigs which could help a fellow designer grow and learn. One of my goals for this site is to harness the talents of every visitor and to provide meaningful assets to further their knowledge and careers.
I’d never expect something like this for no return, so to say thank you, I will be giving away a free Muse Creative product from the store to 15 awesome people and 5 personal lessons at random over the next week. These can be Muse Creative products of your choice and for those who win the private Cinema 4D lessons, these will be 1 hour lessons.
I’ve given a lot to the Cinema 4D community over the past years, and I believe it’s the greatest 3D community online today, so I appeal to each and everyone of you to share this with everyone you know, tweet about it, share this post of Facebook and lets give back to our community and uplift our friends through our work and grow together.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post, it means more than you know.
For those that are ready to submit, you can send an email with your asset and information on who you are and how people can follow you online to eugene@musecreative.net
I’m looking forward to sharing your amazing assets with the world.
Eugene
Some quick things:
The wonderful people over at Panoply London have created a well crafted piece entitled “A guide to happy”
A little insight (for the nerds)
The video was rendered entirely in Arnold for Cinema 4D, making extensive use of the alShaders and the JF Nested Dielectric (so beautiful, but some frames took up to 8hrs per frame on a 20core machine to render). Most of the animation was done in Cinema 4D with all of the heavy effects stuff done in Houdini and then brought back across using alembics and procedurals.
Nearly all the shots make use of in camera DOF (minus the heavy liquid shots) which we managed to get out in a very reasonable render time using AA samples of 7 (a few used AA 8 that used fine wires). Although this still held a little noise we were about clean it up easily in Fusion.
Panoply made good use of the volume rendering for the “disposable money” scene which also used custom attributes created in Houdini what we then took to C4DtoA to help with the shading (burnt edges).
Overall, a fantastic animation, with so much to learn from and drool over.
Be sure to check out the Panoply site for more inspiring creative and show them some love over on twitter.
To celebrate the launch of the Diffusion Designer Wood Shaders EP, we’ve put together five high resolution 6K shaders for VRayforC4D, for you to use in your projects, best news of all is, they’re free.
