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Here you’ll find a compilation of free Cinema 4D tutorials (plus some After Effects too) from the blog. If you are looking for a deeper learning experience, please check out our training collection — a selection of training for Cinema 4D, After Effects, Houdini, V-Ray, 3D Studio Max and many more expert classes, from some of the best professionals out there. There are currently over 50 free tutorials in this section, affectionately known as Tim’s Tips. The free tutorial section is constantly expanding so check back in regularly.

Field Force Type Reveal

FREE LIGHTING PRESETS / learn. Pro Lighting in Cinema 4D / Redshift by Tim Clapham for helloluxx

Free Redshift Lighting Presets

Knurling in Cinema 4D

Knurling in Cinema 4D

Boolean Modelling

Cinema 4D Boolean Modelling 01

Modelling a Nut in Cinema 4D

Modelling a Nut in Cinema 4D

Modelling Containment and Cinema 4D Scene Optimising

Geometry Slicer in Cinema 4D

Attach Spline Points To Clones

Demystifying Cinema 4D Mograph Shaders Part III

Demystifying C4D Mograph Shaders Part II

Demystifing C4D Mograph Shaders Part I

Build & Setup A Pyramid Puzzle with Xpresso

Build & Setup A Rubik’s Cube with Xpresso

X-Particles Giveaway

X-Particles Advent Giveaway (Twenty Four Free Downloads)

Voronoi Fracture

Fracture Voronoi Examples

Rigging the Bend Deformer

Building a Deformer Controller with Xpresso

Optimising Scenes in Cinema 4D

Optimising Scenes in C4D

Xpresso : Building A Custom Timer Tool

Arnold for Cinema 4D – Arnold TP Group from helloluxx

Arnold for C4D – Arnold TP Group

Arnold for C4D – Vertex Maps from helloluxx

Arnold for C4D – Vertex Maps

Arnold for C4D – Facing Ratio from helloluxx

Arnold for C4D – Facing Ratio

Arnold for C4D – Image Node from helloluxx

Arnold for C4D – Image Node

Arnold for C4D – Infinite Floor - cinema 4d training tutorial from helloluxx

Arnold for C4D – Infinite Floor

Arnold for C4D – Dynamics to Arnold - cinema 4d tutorials and training from helloluxx

Arnold for C4D – Dynamics to Arnold

Arnold for C4D – Xpresso to Arnold from helloluxx Cinema 4D training tutorials

Arnold for C4D – Xpresso to Arnold

Recreating the Falloff Shader in C4DtoArnold from helloluxx

Recreating the Falloff Shader in C4DtoArnold

Elevation Data in Cinema 4D to Arnold from helloluxx

Elevation Data with C4DtoArnold

Object-Based Shader Randomisation in Arnold for Cinema 4D from helloluxx

Object-Based Shader Randomisation with C4DtoArnold

Recreating the Mograph Multi-Shader from helloluxx

Recreating the Mograph Multi-Shader with C4DtoArnold

Hair to PLA from helloluxx

Baking Tracers & Hair to PLA

Download Siggraph 2015 C4D Scene Files

Download Siggraph 2015 C4D Scene Files

Siggraph 2015 Presentations

Mograph Color Shader in Octane Renderer for Cinema 4D

Mograph Colour Shader with Octane Render for C4D

Kernel settings for Octane Renderer for Cinema 4D

Octane Render Kernel Settings – Reference Library

Rendering Hair with Octane Renderer for Cinema 4D

Rendering Hair with Octane Render for Cinema 4D

Realtime with Octane Renderer for Cinema 4D

Real Time Updates with Octane Render for Cinema 4D

Getting Started with Octane Renderer for Cinema 4D

Getting Started with Octane Render for Cinema 4D

Displacement Mapping with Octane Renderer for Cinema 4D

Displacement Mapping with Octane Render for Cinema 4D

Lighting with Octane Renderer for Cinema 4D

Lighting Systems with Octane Render for Cinema 4D

Optimise Octane Renderer for Cinema 4D

Render Settings & Optimisation with Octane Render for Cinema 4D

Multipass with Octane Renderer for Cinema 4D

Multi-Pass Rendering with Octane Render for Cinema 4D

10 Tips for better lighting in Cinema 4D

10 Tips for Better Lighting in Cinema 4D

Alternative methods for creating 3D Fan in Cinema 4D

Alternative ways to setup a 3D fan in C4D

Rigging a 3D folding fan with Cinema 4D

Model and Rig a 3D Fan in C4D

Spline Projection using Xpresso in Cinema 4D

Spline Projection with Xpresso

Create a transition in Xpresso with Cinema 4D

Linear, Spherical & Cylindrical Wipe Transition

X-Particles 3 xpVolumeEmit

Soft bodies with x-particles

Simulating Soft Bodies with X-Particles 3

Logo Reveal With X-Particles

Siggraph 2014 Presentations

Type with C4D Hair, MoGraph or X-Particles

Binary Grid with X-Particles

X-Particles Instant Molecules

Instant Molecules with X-Particles

3dartist blow up

C4D Soft Body Dynamics – Tutorial Part One

Paste At Scripts

Paste As… Scripts for Cinema 4D

Waxy Shader in Cinema 4D

Relative Xpresso Tutorial

Relative linking with Xpresso in Cinema 4D

jiggle tutorial

Springy Motion in Cinema 4D

3dartist blow up

C4D Physical Renderer – Tutorial Part Two

Caustics in C4D

Refractive Animation with Caustics in Cinema4D

Metaball Typography

Metaball Typography

Conveyor Tutorial

Building a Conveyor with Cinema4D Dynamics

Orbit Camera Preset

Cinema 4D Orbit Camera Preset

UV Grids

Cloud Fly Through

Create a Cloud Fly Through with C4D & Pyrocluster

Atom Array with Cloner

Recreate the Atom Array with a Cloner

Cinema4D to After Effects and back again…

Align To Spline

Align To Spline Xpresso

Traffic Lights

Jigsaw Puzzle Tutorial

TP Sub-Frame Emission

Sub-Frame Emission with Thinking Particles

Proxy Instances

Creating Proxies using Instances in C4D

TP Multiple Object Emission

Multiple Object Particle Emission

Linear Workflow

Linear Workflow in Cinema4D and After Effects

Sticky Dynamics

Sticky Dynamics with Cinema4D

TP From Dynamic Collisions

Thinking Particles from Dynamic Collisions

TP Emit on Collision

Thinking Particles: Emit On Collision

TP Motion Inheritance

TP Motion Inheritance Preset

Attribute Manager Modes

Customising C4D Attribute Manager Modes

Two Texture Tips

Two quick tips for working with textures in Cinema4D

MoGraph Modify Clone

Modify Clone with C4D MoGraph

Thinking Particles & Proximal Shader

Basic flocking with TP

Thinking Particles: Basic Flocking Preset

Moving AE Templates

Moving AE Templates

Slo-Mo with Cinema4D Cloth

Modelling Reference Tables

Reference for Sub-D modelling

Understanding Alphas

Straight vs Premultiplied: Understanding Alphas

C4D Lighting presets

Cinema4D Lighting Presets

Choosing C4D Datatype for Xpresso?

MoGraph Sort Mode

Sorted — Using the MoGraph sort options

Reflection Falloff

Reflection Falloff

Cinema4D Light Dome

Random Colour with Cinema4D Lights

Custom Forces with Dynamics

Custom Forces with MoDynamics

3D Text with Form

3D Text in After Effects with Trapcode Form

Working with layouts in Cinema4D

Target or Constraint

Target or Constraint, you decide?

Cloner Visibility

C4D Cloner Visibility through Effectors

Preserve Transparency

Preserve Transparency in After Effects

Point Cache Tag

Introduction to Point Cache

Displacement with Splines

Displacement with Splines

Converting HDR Images to Spherical Maps

Alternating Colour

Stairs Alternating Colour

MoGraph Identify Clone

MoGraph Xpresso Data Node

Selection Sets Automagically

Creating Selection Sets Automagically

More Randomness

More Randomness with MoGraph

Create a Springy Camera in Cinema4D

Matrix Object, Thinking Particles and Geometry

Free Cinema 4D Tutorials – Professional Motion Graphics & VFX Training