C4D & XP TUTORIAL | Procedural Growing Frost [Cinema 4D & X-Particles]

[@alekseyrodionov3811]

If your particles do not touch the surface of the model or object, then you just need to change the radius in the emitter itself ... I spent half an hour looking for how to solve the problem

[@dionandon5578]

Not only is this tutorial in english, it's in fancy english! For octane: add object tag, hair tag (check render as hair) and octane material to xptrail. Working pretty well.

[@kevinmakesvideos]

thank youQ!!

[@everydayhero3610]

I don't have Arnold nor X-particles, but I still watched the full tutorial. Just because it's always fun!

[@DanielDanielsson]

And now when you one day you sit down in front of either, you'll have a frosty trick up your sleeve... ;)

[@DS6Prophet]

You're easily becoming 1 of my favorite C4D tutor!!! Spectacular job!!!

[@gamersdistrict2307]

I like your branch tutorial man. At beginning i thought that nobody could control the branch power...but i was wrong. Beside that, great tutorial Daniel...and remenber... a branch power is a big responsability.

[@DanielDanielsson]

Sometimes I'm not sure if I control the branches or the branches control me...

[@gamersdistrict2307]

Be careful man, Braches are so powerful... First you think that it is a game, you start having fun...but then it control all the cinema 4d....And after that your soul...But who cares, I sold my soul to have octane :)

[@Dmytrozern]

And THAT is intro I wanted to see searching for the tutorial. Nice sound design!

[@kdsbored]

that intro sound transition was amazing

[@mitchelmarvin8040]

Brooo, your intro is Banging!!!!!👌 I always get ultra hyped when I hear your intro

[@Pipinha1998]

This is the first tutorial that I find not only educational, but also very very amusing! Thanks eheh

[@DanielDanielsson]

That's my jam.

[@EarmWermChannel]

Welcome to AMSR Cinema training. We've got wibbly wobbly lines folks and they're mucho too busy. Loved it.

[@manuart1983]

Great job, i found you two day ago...i´m starting with C4D and you are a great teacher

[@DanielDanielsson]

Welcome aboard!

[@hcl8836]

Nice tutorial. A small hint for standard rendering ... you can use the xpSplineMesher from x-particles since version 3.5 instead of the c4d sweep nurb to create a mesh out of the trails.

[@DanielDanielsson]

Das true. Probably a lot quicker to work with than what I showed...

[@esbenrahbek3549]

For other noobs like me, it goes like this: 1. Create the xpSplineMesher 2. Highlight it (ie. click on it) 3. Drop your xpTrail object into "objects" in xpSplineMesher 4. Apply a material to xpSplineMesher 5. Wait for the render...

[@rapgab]

I know we are one year later, but you can also throw the x-particle-material on the xpTrail. So this is even faster.

[@SwitchMediaTube]

thank you for this

[@TheRecafox]

just want to say i am glad to see you post another tutorial !!!

[@DanielDanielsson]

Haha, me too!

[@xWatermelonsx]

Your humor and skillset are a welcome into my life! I generally always find myself laughing while also learning tonnes of things from your tutorials! So thank you for being an amazing person! Hope you are doing great!

[@NerdGeekFutureSpeak]

Buttery smooth voice and humorous overlays? Subscribed.

[@g_rant_]

I absolutely love your tutorials! The production value alone is beyond most others, information is clear and precise, your humor is on point, and that voice, good lord, that voice. Please keep up the awesome work!!

[@PanzrKunst]

Daniel, your tutorials are a league on their own. Funnier than ever! :D

[@DanielDanielsson]

Shit yeah! Thanks. :D

[@realabrar]

Very profesional! just feels like I paid with a premium membership when I watch this tutorial. Keep it up!!

[@helveticaisgood]

Best VO in a tutorial, ever. Cleaver.

[@yoericktv9610]

Cool Tutorial my friend. One day, i will own X-Particles. I can't wait.

[@yoericktv9610]

I own X-Particles and Arnold now. OMG what a good time i'm going to have.

[@shahrilsuhaimi5109]

Here a setup I have been struggling with. I tried a few different ways, see below: 1) I have particles moving over a mesh, constraint with follow surface and leaving spline trails 2) Eventually I want to animate the mesh underneath, a talking and moving character, but I want to stick the trails to the mesh while the trails are being created an while the character is moving around. - Problem is it needs to be procedural not happen after the splines are all created.

[@jm4giv]

Branch count! Its the small things that makes all the difference!!

[@bioniccaterpillar7374]

thank you for this tutorial. I did it twice and have a few questions, hope for your reply 1. On the viewport the growing is ok, but when I render it (octane or standard render ), it completely different. not only the acting of growing, but also the amount of it. Amount of particles after render are completely less then on viewport. No matter how beautiful it looks on viewport, after render it's just a few little random branches 2. Looking on your final result, frost is quite flat. No matter how close I put emitter to the object my frost not only following surface but growing in different directions as well. As a result it looks like tinsel or plant, but not like frost Cant find any solutions, please help =(

[@Ayvazovsky_kar]

Nice Tutorial man, I really like how fast you performed it!

[@DanielDanielsson]

I figure it's less irritating to go back and re-watch something that's a bit too quick, than to sit through something a bit too slow. :)

[@Ayvazovsky_kar]

Daniel Danielsson Actually, I watched the intro (the main mograph) more than 10 times, the sound, the music, the camera movement are all well done. This tutorial helped me a lot on my new animation. Thank you!

[@DanielDanielsson]

Sweet!

[@Lowenmensch408]

Epic tutorial once again!! Thank you so much:D

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thank you! :)

[@BULLIER8]

Dope! Waiting for this tut!

[@cimkep8250]

Thank you! I've been waiting for this :D

[@DanielDanielsson]

Me too!

[@ideascortes]

This was wonderful.

[@yuezhang5551]

Hi there, Anyone knows which C4D version is used in this tutorial? Mine is different and does not have the "shot' option at the beginning

[@alon7697]

thank you ! nice tut

[@Gokhan_B]

Awesome, thank you very much for great tutorial.

[@DanielDanielsson]

My pleasure.

[@alisaluis4619]

thank you very very i like your tutorials

[@JE-sb6sp]

i want to create it from a moving object. So I placed the trail underneath the object. Particles are then created on the flipped face. Can you tell me why?

[@Soap308]

Nice tutorial indeed, but could we get a adaptation for 2023 C4D Redshift? The software is soo different now from 5 years ago.

[@MrCCxiong]

waiting for you so looooong~~~thank you so much~~~

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thank you for waiting! :)

[@michaelalexandrovich1268]

Thanx Bro for tuts!!! its really help me!)))

[@l-dss8093]

intro perfectyl blended :ooooo

[@CdeeqFilmmaker]

nicely done

[@4ECTb]

man, you're amazing!

[@shaiksadik2559]

yo what whats up man how you doing. i just watch your tutorials . there are just amazing. i'm from india. i love it.. thnx man.. hope you do more interesting tutorials like this

[@SupSupa10]

Hi Daniel. I see that the XP follow surface's not working good with the complex geometry. How can fix that ?

[@Reitbajdesign]

Really useful tutorial, good explanation. But how it would works on vray? Above all the materials... it would be good another tutorial for rendering set up and materials.

[@liamterlouw]

Wow! I LOVE IT!!!!

[@EGaborovna]

I didn't remember your name or your style, I just saw a random tutorial I was interested in, clicked on it, but the second I heard your voice I recognised it. Your voice is your branding, in case you didn't know, like when someone asks you to draw the Pizza Hut logo and you know it's red even if you are not sure about the letters and stuff, you know it's red. That's theirs, yours is your voice. ... Aaand I didn't even watch the vid yet, let me get back to it :) (And I wasn't even looking for this stuff, I'm actually in desperate need of a proper plant tutorial, which is what I was looking for when I found this, but I thought it was nice and might be interesting. I don't even have Particles I don't know why I'm here... Anyway, I shut it up, I will watch the tutorial now.)

[@ralphsnowman5363]

Very nice

[@orlandohoodaudiovisual]

"Are Dropping Muy Rápido" - :)

[@daillocruz3606]

Can you make a complete tutorial with your all process for this vidéo? (All shaders creation, sequences, camera animation & your after effect post prod) that'll be awesome!!!

[@乘风-g5k]

太棒了，非常感谢，期待更多教程。

[@MrCCxiong]

貌似要用3.5的xparticle

[@Magma-uw7yo]

Hi, How Can I use it on a logo ? When I tried, it doesnt touch the surface even if I make it editable. I import a merge v8 illustrator into an extrude, I make it editable (1 groups of 2 caps) and place it into the motion xparticle surface but nothing.

[@dandanzhao9451]

Cool tutorial~ could you tell me how to make the water wave thing in the beginning of the trailer? I really want to know~ thank you very much~:P

[@DanielDanielsson]

It's a Plain Effector set to distortion mode with a Spherical Falloff, a low Falloff Percentage, and a Sine as a Falloff Curve, that animates up on Falloff Scale. Then a bit of Jiggle on top of that and you've got yourself a ripple!

[@dandanzhao9451]

Daniel Danielsson thank you thank you, I will try it now. Thank you~:p

[@dandanzhao9451]

thank you thank you, I will try it now. Thank you~:p

[@sclptr9163]

goosebumps

[@MonMurPorteur]

Could you create the same tutorial, but using the new C4D Particle system, please ?

[@DanielDanielsson]

That's a good shout. 🤔

[@MonMurPorteur]

@@DanielDanielsson It would be great, because we don't have access to the X-Particles plugin.

[@NickBoy3d]

I love this tutorial, it's possible with thinking particles?

[@NickBoy3d]

Muito legal este tutorial, é possível o mesmo efeito com thinking particles??

[@Magma-uw7yo]

Hello, how I can render my particles simply without the Octane render ? When I apply a basic materiel and render it show only the sphere but not particles, thank's for answer and the tutorial

[@nmtraining7634]

Goog good (palpatine voice ;) Thank u bro ^)

[@DanielDanielsson]

Let the frost flow through you...

[@rangosong3031]

so cool

[@hamzamughal1354]

you should have to take a look at houdini now because you push c4d to it's limites well done

[@RichieMotion]

fck this is amazing as always

[@diegobarrios1090]

NICE MAN!!!

[@TheKaneda3]

Successs Exelent Tutorial ! ^^

[@AlexDisciple]

This seems to not work in the same way with XP 4

[@ДанилОликсов-н5ц]

Thanks sir

[@Mridul1752]

Awesome :D Arigato Sensei

[@DanielDanielsson]

Domo... Muy domo. :)

[@ВячеславЗборовский-д7з]

Super

[@yogiunleashedd]

Great info. Can you do an X Particle introduction tutorial?!

[@guyincognito566]

There's thousands of them already.

[@yogiunleashedd]

Your way of teaching and communicating is much better!!

[@alexanderfranke7362]

Du är sjukt duktig! Kör ba

[@iammiladsam]

Tnx for your tutorial, I have a question. How can I a apply one emitter to text? It just knows first word as a surface

[@DanielDanielsson]

It might fix it if you drop the Text object into a Connect Object and reference that instead.

[@Gireshahid33]

Facking Awesome Tutorial!

[@PXLGraphics]

How the branch do you manage to make your tutorials and entertaining and educational? Too sad I don't have x-particles haha

[@DanielDanielsson]

Yeah, the price is a bit of a branch...

[@muhammadzien5817]

what version of C4D are you using ?

[@smithedits]

Is there a way to make it without x-particles?

[@DirtyDenaDubStep]

like that you break down the steps in bio legit

[@DanielDanielsson]

Having to skip through a whole tutorial when looking for just a particular technique has always irritated me, so I thought it might make it easier!

[@issasatti5026]

U R number one

[@zeven777]

Te quedo del carajo.!!! muchas gracias por el aporte :D

[@DanielDanielsson]

¡De nada!

[@goldstick3D]

I was translating it to Blender workflow, and at some point I just gave up. I guess it's doable, but it's a lot more work.

[@pili1790]

Nice tutorial.I love it! And how can I make the animating frozen texture like that?

[@pili1790]

Base on the path of Growing Frost

[@DanielDanielsson]

I believe I did it by rendering a high-res, black & white, top-down video of the frost growing. I modified that in AE, projected it back on the scene, rendered it again through the animated camera and used that as a matte for a separate render of pure ice. Bit of a workaround, but it do.

[@johannahuss7663]

Hey. Where did you get your material from ? the one you use on the sphere at the beginning? Thank you! Absolutely love your tutorials and your voice!

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thanks! I think that material is just a single concrete texture plugged into diffuse and reflection roughness (with some contrast tweaks on).

[@johannahuss7663]

@@DanielDanielsson would love a tutorial about how to make you own material and texture.

[@isimorales3593]

Lol. 5:34 achievement unlocked!!! Lmao.

[@mrmachine5632]

In the final version how did you achieve the "pre frost" effect. In post?

[@DanielDanielsson]

Yeah, partially. It was a second render with only a generic frost texture, and another growing matte to mask it out.

[@itsfzt]

Classic Daniel xD

[@santiagoarango1231]

Awesome tutorial! Do you know where i can download X particles?

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thanks! There's loads of retailers, but you might as well get it. Straight from the developers website: insydium.uk/try-x-particles/

[@misbakhulislam8773]

If using the standard render of c4d, what are the material settings?

[@DanielDanielsson]

Something like full white in the Colour channel, maybe a Backlight shader in the Luminance, and possibly a bit of Reflectance with a fresnel set to 1.3-ish and ~5% blurriness. Should look somewhat frosty!

[@jeffyart4410]

I’d love to know the machine requirements to use X-particles. I have a AMD Ryzen 7 processor and this still freezes up my desktop. No pun intended. lol

[@SlobboVideo]

Fucking bravo, this is amazing!

[@pansitostyle]

En español no lo tienes? Para entenderte más

[@LensAndMotion]

when i am doing this then i get a space between the particles and sphere. any solution?

[@DanielDanielsson]

Might have something to do with the Particle Radius (on your Emitter)?

[@thegreaterconundrum]

Good shit

[@LEHUYVEVO]

yayyyyyyyy , rockkkkkkk

[@michaelbenhamoMikeB1]

how to do this with x-particles 2?

[@WAYTONN]

como creo la capa envronment?

[@kanayookoye5813]

Just so you know, I have cloned you ....You are the best

[@DanielDanielsson]

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[@johnmichaelvillaber1137]

"It'll pretty much work from bunnies to Buddhas"

[@NowrajKhanAlin]

woooow

[@GradeFX]

That's lit

[@DanielDanielsson]

But then the frost melts?

[@GradeFX]

😂

[@昭奚旧草]

Is frost under logo were image material or another XPbranch?

[@DanielDanielsson]

At the end of the Teaser the floor is a few planes Cloned with Textures & Transparency trickery to get some parallax under the Ice. But the branching frost that grows on top of that is the same X-Particles frost as on the the text. They've just grown all the way down there!

[@昭奚旧草]

thanks a lot :)

[@soycriz]

Why u not put proyect download??

[@shelby7983]

You'll never grow up by this position

[@soycriz]

No, bro, i have troubles with the X-Particles, i see the entire video but i still havin problems, i think with the proyect i can see whats wrong with me

[@edwardhoare7617]

@@soycriz do it again

[@ChudleighDesigns]

How long have you been using Houdini for?

[@DanielDanielsson]

For as long as I can remember pretty much.

[@arthurhoff8228]

wow, every time I watch a video from you I have this desire to be your friend. Done, i've commented. Now make your pun

[@DanielDanielsson]

I thought about a pun for long, but came up short…

[@arthurhoff8228]

well done ;)

[@DanielDanielsson]

It was one of my weaker ones. (Guess I'm not at the height of my game right now.)

[@AUSTORMCHASERS]

How do you stop it from raising from the surface?

[@DanielDanielsson]

In the Follow Surface Modifier there's a "Distance" value which controls that I think.