How to Set Up a Simple Maxon Cinema4D Set Driver
Ko Maruyama created this great new video tutorial for Toolfarm, How to Set Up a Simple Maxon Cinema4D Set Driver. Check it out!.
Maxon Cinema 4D Pumpkin by Ko Maruyama
Ko has updated a cool old tutorial about how to make a pumpkin in C4D… both the modeling and texturing. View the tutorial.
Hey, did you hear that Maxon Cinema 4D r10.5 came out a couple of weeks ago? It’s a great upgrade.
Cinema 4D resources on the web
Jonas Hummelstrands blog, General Specialist, has a great list of Cinema 4D Links including links to Ko’s stuff and Chris Smith’s awesome free CSTools.
Vanishing Point Tutorials for After Effects and Photoshop
The ever prolific Ko Maruyama has produced a couple of videos for the Adobe Design Center about Vanishing Point.
Working with Vanishing Point in Photoshop and After Effects
Using Vanishing Point to map a 3D environment
Free Cinema 4D Projects from Chris Smith
Chris Smith, one of Toolfarm Expert Forums Experts. Chris made some free tools for Cinema 4D called CSTools.
Ko Maruyama… our friend, our buddy, our pal… has but together a great tutorial about one of the CSTools.
Free Cinema 4D Video Tutorial
Using Cinema 4D and Mograph? Ko Maruyama has built a tutorial movie for Toolfarm that explains some tips on working with Mograph text and streamlining your workflow. In the end, he brings it into Photoshop.
Interested in Maxon tools? Boy, I’m full of questions this morning.
Trapcode: 3D Stars
Ko Maruyama has a nice tutorial movie on extruding shapes into Trapcode Particular at Digital Producer.
App Delete
Michael Smith posted this freeware application to Ko’s Ninja Crayon, App Delete for Macs that
will delete the application you choose and any associated items (files and folders) that belong to that application. Now you will no longer have to hunt through your system to find these items and delete them manually. Or worse, just let them sit on your Mac forever even though the application is long gone!
This sounds so useful for removing demo versions and older versions of software with all those little files strewn about your hard drive.
AE Training Round-Up, Free After Effects Comps from The Anvel
Ko Maruyama has posted a blog entry at Ninja Crayon about the training that is available for After Effects and happens to mention three of our Forum Experts, Harry J. Frank, John Dickinson and Dean Velez.
Harry’s training is available just this week and to say it’s selling well would be an understatement! After Effects Expressions hits a niche where there is really not a lot of training and Harry’s training is fun to watch and easy to absorb. It’s downloadable immediately and is affordable at just $29 for 60 minutes of Expressions training. It is designed for the designer, not the programmer, and it will take your Expressiophobia away.
- After Effects Expressions 01: Introduction to Expressions Duration: 20 Minutes
- After Effects Expressions 02: Introduction to Arrays and Variables Duration: 20 Minutes
- After Effects Expressions 03: 3D Text Duration: 20 Minutes
- After Effects Expression Series 1 Bundle Duration: 60 Minutes
John Dickinson’s Creative Background Design Series has also been very popular. John currently has six modules in his series and he uses some innovative techniques and explains several shortcuts that will help your workflow. John’s training is just $5 a pop and great for the beginner or seasoned veteran.
- Creative Background Design for After Effects 01: Basic Fractal Loop – Free Sample
- Creative Background Design for After Effects 02: Award Night
- Creative Background Design for After Effects 03: Venetian Blocks
- Creative Background Design for After Effects 04: Fractal Flower
- Creative Background Design for After Effects 05: Molten Cells
- Creative Background Design for After Effects 06: Rose Window
Dean Velez puts out training through his company, The Anvel. His training, The Anvel Industry Training for AE is incredible. I showed my class some of the training last semester and they were completely into it. People actually stuck around until the end of class instead of bagging class after an hour 
Just yesterday, Dean posted the following to our Expert Forum:
Hello Video, Film and Web guys and gals,
The Anvel has just posted 29 new royalty free and fully customizable After Effects 7.0 Professional projects ready for download.
The Projects all deal with Text and adding effects to text. They cover the letters A-Z ( Aura, Balls, Cosmic, Destroy, Electric, Extrude, Fire, Glimmer, Hose, Ice, Join, Killer, Laser, Magnify, Nature, Odor, Paint, Quartz, Road, Strange, Tear, Universe, Vile, Web, Wind, X-Ray, Yank, Zoom )
Some are render intensive…so prerender when you can.
Hope you enjoy them! and drop me a line to let me know which one is your favorite…mine is Killer.
Dean is always posting awesome free stuff every month or two, so you’d be doing yourself a big service to go to our forum and hang out. Ask some questions while you’re there and guys like Harry and John will answer your questions.
Ko also mentions Aharon Rabinowitz’s quality training. Aharon runs After Effects NY user group, which met last night and Toolfarm gave away Harry’s new training at the meeting. I hear the meeting was great, with Curious Pictures showing their Disney Channel program, Little Einsteins ("Come on! Wave your arms to make our ship fly faster!" and so you can hear some Vivaldi… oh, I’m sure you’ve seen it!)
Ko Maruyama’s Blog: Ninja Crayon
Check out Ko’s new blog, Ninja Crayon. He talks about software and pop culture with other interesting tidbits. It’s a very entertaining read and I totally dig the name. My daughter throws crayons like ninja stars occasionally, so I guess those would be ninja crayons? I’m sure Ko has a better definition.
