Create Mac OSX Intro Video with C4D – Day 1

on Aug 20th 2009 with 42 comments

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

As the penultimate nugget of goodness in our Mac Lover’s Week, Satya created a 2 day tutorial that everybody will enjoy! In day 1, he will walk us through Cinema 4D and how to create the 3d text in this effect.

Requirements

  • Cinema 4D You can download a trial version here.
  • Trapcode Particular You can download a trial version here.
  • Trapcode Horizon You can download a trial version here.
  • Trapcode Shine You can download a trial version here.
  • Knoll Light Factory (Optional) You can download a trial version here.

Tutorial

Download Tutorial .flv

File size 312MB

 
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  • http://www.ylchaithanya.com Chaithanya Y

    Nice video. What is the bg score used?

    • http://www.gutsblow.com/ Satya Meka
      Author

      I don’t what is called but it comes by default with every installation of OS x leopard.

    • Matt

      Exodus Honey by Honeycut

  • Liam

    brilliant! something i’ve been interested in re creating since i got my imac and watch that beautiful welcome video.

    Although i foresee unhappiness at the fact that this uses cinema4D and not JUST aftereffects, but oh well, this is awesome

    • http://www.gutsblow.com/ Satya Meka
      Author

      I used Cinema 4D just to kinda get closer to the real one, but you can pull out a decent one using After Effects with plugins like Boris Spline extruder. Also you can get the same result with any 3D app including blender.

  • http://www.vimapro.be Philip Van Dyck

    Really good,
    I would say it’s perfect as an opening projection for conferences etc…

  • khaled_kashef2002@yahoo.com

    relay great work
    thanks’
    but there some thing in arabic text it is written from right to left
    the welcome word well be like that in arabic (مرحبا )
    i know it’s because language but i get the meaning thanks’ for your tutorial
    it’s relay great i will tray it now

  • khaled_kashef2002@yahoo.com

    there some thing i want to know
    how to make airplane flying camera in after effect
    i think it could be using script but how
    any body know

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninjtso/ BAD GHOST

    gr8 work i really like it :P

  • JiaoShao

    Can not watch this video Why is that?

    • Speaky Eng-rish?

      OMG!!! Don’t do a tutorial if you have a cold. Finish your thoughts and/or sentences. Lastly, I don’t want to watch you work… Pick up the pace…

  • http://www.blackbluebrown.com geoff brown

    thanks for another great tut, Satya Meka.
    always a pleasure! C4D + AE = awsomeness

  • park

    This is just incredible! Thanks a lot!

  • Robin Pishton

    Thank you Satya. This tut is really appreciated. I’ve been waiting a bit for another C4d tut and now there are two, one here and another on CGtuts on the same day.

    • John Doe

      Yea, The more C4D tuts the better!

  • http://randomshutterbugger.blogspot.com/ Abhishek

    Satya comes up with the goods again!

  • http://pr85.com Pat Reilly
  • http://www.gimei.de Gimei

    Hm, for me its too fast…

  • flora

    amazing! You rock Satya!!

  • http://www.motionworks.com.au John Dickinson

    Nice work Satya. I agree it’s a little fast in places but that can be easily fixed. Well done.

    • http://www.gutsblow.com/ Satya Meka
      Author

      Thank you John. Yea, I should have worked on the keyframes a little bit more.

  • http://noisejunkies.net Rafael Guerra

    Really cool…

  • Hooper

    Wow John Dickinson is here!

    wow!

  • MovieMaker

    It’s a nice effect, but couldn’t you have just done the text with the shatter effect in after effects?

    • http://www.gutsblow.com/ Satya Meka
      Author

      I tried using it, but the quality isn’t matchable at all since the anti-aliasing was bad and no proper animation controls.

  • bigbang

    Nice Work !…

  • f1a5h84ck

    Thank you for the tut, Satya. But it seems you are not so familiar with the Cinema 4D. A lot of “superfluous movements”… Thanks anyway.

  • J4de

    This is just incredible!
    Absolutely fantastic work. You’re a fantastic teacher.
    I’ve had c4d for two days now and this has taught me as much as all other tutorial combined.
    Kudos!

  • kinghang

    sir
    your tutorial i can’t download it
    please tell me why
    thanks very much

  • Peter Somers

    Great technique!

    Quick question: how did you do the ‘tail particles’ in your inbetween screens?
    They appear to sorta build out of a little swooshy tail and then end as a glow sphere which gives it a nice extra touch.
    Done in Particular?

    • http://www.gutsblow.com/ Satya Meka
      Author

      Hey Peter,

      It is a basic CC Particle World with Vector Blur applied to it.

  • Matt

    Your flvs are huge!! Slow to stream such big files.
    But I’m sure it’s a cool tut anyway.

  • Ak

    massive tutorial but the way how cinema 4d moves is so painful to work with..since im more familiar with blender..good job none the less

    • http://www.gutsblow.com/ Satya Meka
      Author

      Yes I agree. I don’t like the Camera Behavior in Cinema 4D.

  • Jerem

    can we have the source files?

  • Mishig

    Can anybody tell me where is the part 2? Please, help. Thanks

  • http://avapglobal.com/Vikash/index.html Vikash Verma

    Thx Really great tut :d

  • Greg

    Great tutorial…

    one question:
    Wouldn’t it be easier if instead of creating so many extrude nurbs for each character could you drag all the paths into one nurb and click on Hieracrchical under the object tab?

    overall great piece!

  • Alex Hurst

    can you provide the text animation please in the After effects format i have done it 3 times and have made errors on it. thx

  • Reeve24

    Where’s the part 2 of your tutorial? i just stop on C4D and there’s no part 2.. or i will do it that by myself in Adobe After Effects? I just thought your tutorial is complete.. but thank you very much for such wonderful tutorial…

  • reeve24
  • Alex

    hello guys, you can have the final draft after effcts? also to payment of course, so I’ll need to create a beautiful presentation