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Free CINEMA 4D Shaders

RENDEROSITY's FREE C4D SHADERS

By members for members ! A growing collection of C4D shaders and BhodiNUT SLA presets.
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MAXON's DEEPSHADE

The official MAXON shader club. Many mineral, organic, synthetic, liquid, etc... C4D shaders and BhodiNUT SLA presets.
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NOCTUA GRAPHIC FREE SHADERS

An interesting collection of materials (mostly stone, wood, glass and metal). The site includes shaders for C4D XL 6 and up
and many BhodiNUT SLA presets.
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PELHAM DESIGN FREE SHADERS

Some very useful "atmospheric" shaders : smoke, linear fog, exponential fog, analytic haze and numerical haze.
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SLA PRESETS at C4D-treff

Excellent BhodiNUT SLA presets (stone, wood, metal, skin,...) from the nice people at C4D-treff !
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SHADES OF CELL by Kai Pedersen

a very good collection of "cartoon" shaders (outline, hatching, quantized shading, solid colors, etc...)
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Free Textures

Paul Debevec's HDR Light Probes

HDR maps from the K.U. Leuven CGRG

HDR maps from CG TECHNIQUES

Seamless bitmap textures at www.3dtextures.fr.st (more than 3000!)

Bitmaps textures at ANIMAX

Bitmaps textures by David Gurrea (excellent!)

Planets imagery at www.space-graphic.com

Textures maps of Earth and Planets

Seamless bitmap textures at vrmlwelt

Newtek's bitmap textures collection (membership required)


Tutorials & Links

Misc. tutorials hosted here at www.renderosity.com

Misc. tutorials, tips and tricks at www.maxon.net

Misc. tutorials, tips and tricks at www.creativecow.net (a great forum)

16 tutorials (in PDF) covering the basics of Cinema 4D

XPresso, PyroCluster, Thinking Particles tutorials at www.lachlan.clara.net

Modeling a Chevy with HyperNURBS

Extensive radiosity tutorial by Michael Vance

Lighting tutorial by Carles Piles

Misc. tutorials, tips and tricks by Jeremy W.

Xpresso, Thinking Particles, modeling tricks by Per Anders

Misc. tutorials, tips and tricks at Lizard Lounge

HDRI, compositing and underwater lighting tutorials at www.3dpics.de

Misc. tutorials, tips and tricks at www.3dlinks.com

Character animation, cartoon rendering, translucency by Naam

Character tutorials

www.cinema-tutorials.de

Misc. tutorials, tips and tricks at www.technoscope.com

Landscape tutorial

Model a Face (mimura)

Global Illumination

Head modeling, tips and tricks

Poser 5 hair to Cinema 4D by Segart

Misc. tutorials, tips and tricks at www.splashchallenge.com

Misc. tutorials, tips and tricks at www.spoono.com

Misc. tutorials, tips and tricks by cartesius

Cinema 4D R8 resources and tutorials by Björn Marl

3D multipass (Cinema 4D and After Effects)

Diamond tutorial

Adding your own icons to Cinema’s interface

Chanlum tutorials, modeling, lighting, particle emitters, etc... at www.metafex.net

Basis of C++ for C4D plugin developers

Xpresso and Modeling tutorials

Human modeling (not Cinema 4D specific)

Radiosity comparison chart at www.deviantart.com

Ambient Occlusion tutorial by ShadeMaster

Basic tutorials on modeling, BodyPaint and Texturing at www.psionic3d.co.uk

Misc. tutorials, tips and tricks by Mash


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http://www.cinema4dportal.com

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