Cinema 4D Tutorial // 3 Tips For More Realistic Reflections

In this tutorial, you will learn the Three things I add to almost any reflection to make a more realistic render in Cinema 4D. Then learn how you can speed up your texturing process with our Topcoat Plugin. greyscalegorilla.com/product/...
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About This Tutorial
Nick Campbell from Greyscalegorilla shows you his 3 tips to make more realistic reflections in Cinema 4D. Find out what things make for a more realistic render in Cinema 4D in this Cinema 4D Tutorial.

[@JO_Artificial]

I LOVE your work man, These tutorials for free have really helped me alot

[@CarcPazu]

After watching hours of C4D tutorials from a shit tons of different channels, let me say that you're an awesome teacher.

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Thank you for that. We try had to be good teachers.

[@ankitpatel932]

I love your tutorial .... Thanks buddy :) 😍

[@SwimmingUpCurrents]

Your tutorials are fantastic. They have helped me out immensely, much more than the C4D help or Lynda.com. I came to C4D from Keyshot as a rendering program for product design, and the controls and level of detail are out of this world compared to KS. I still have a lot to figure out, but your videos have helped so much.

[@RahmaTriki]

Great tips thanks Nick!

[@Blemboy]

thank you once again im getting addicted to your videos

[@minimalfun]

That was a killer tip, thanks a lot Nick.

[@maltepaulsen4311]

Just another awesome tutorial, thank you! used it straight away

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Thanks so much! Glad it was useful.

[@hirenjani13]

It was super tips thanks alot nick

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Thanks!

[@patricklevar]

great tip thanks alot going to try it RIGHT NOW.... LATER 😁

[@LukeBroadhurstfilm]

wow, my 3d objects actually look realistic now! you made it so easy but so effective, thank you

[@saqibhussain1472]

Thank You for the Tips I Think i have to buy Top Coat it is very use full it will save my time

[@modeun-users]

Thank you so much for sharing your brilliant skills! Now I want to buy this Topcoat...

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Cheers! Topcoat is available on our store.

[@joAdonisT]

I've been doing Fresnel WRONG all this time! Always added Fresnel texture to Color. Thanks Nick! :D

[@5mincer]

really nice!

[@RedBiirdy]

Well this sure helped me a lot! Thanks a bunch!

[@Greyscalegorilla]

You got it. Thanks for watching!

[@vblackrender]

thanks for this helpfull tutorial !

[@EverentMo]

Thank you for this video, it was quite fun)

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Thanks so much for watching.

[@ssjenforcer191191191]

Fantastic tutorial. I never knew why it was good to use two reflection layers.

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jekpriyanto5984]

thank you so mush nick

[@aonay7688]

Thank you sir this is one of the best tutorial on How to get realistic reflections but Sir i have a question can u please tell how can i do exact same thing (stacking of the reflection layers) inside the arnold network shader I will b really helpful if u can help me :)

[@CYMCrew]

Hello Nick. You and the entire GSG team rock! You guys are gods in the industry mehn. Respect to you! I have been thinking if you guys can consider making plugins to simplify these in Cinema. Is there any possibilities? Or what do you think? 1. Easy Time Remapping plugin 2. Easy Shadow & Reflection Catcher 3. Camera move from object to object in C4D eg. In VideoCopilot's AE Sure Target tutorial 4. Color Shader Effector

[@anthonyschmuck2462]

could you please do a tutorial on like messing about with a 3D Head scan, like having vines growing onto the surface of the face, and like things growing under the skin, and things clamping on the face, or like zoomin inside the face to see weird like webs of organs but like super artsy.. pleaseee

[@ArgentaOfficial]

can you show what your computer spec while making this tutorial please ?

[@dmellis]

Nice job Nick, I didn't know you could layer multiple reflection channels and they would combine at 100% Normal transfer mode.

[@Greyscalegorilla]

That's the secret of the Fresnel. That allows other layers to show through at different angles.

[@techsquared_]

amazing tutorial! cant wait to try.. Now Need Some advice... From a budget point of view seeing as Im still a student, wanted to build a 32 core xeon PC for standard render with ur HDR rig ect or go with octane and invest in a good graphics card?.....

[@tonyleo01]

At work, I'm using a BOXX computer the price of a Civic. At home, I'm using a 2 year old i7 4970k and 980 GTX SLI with Octane. I was a long time V-ray user, so I thought it was a pretty good investment for the speed and the price.

[@andersonfreitas5626]

OMG. Could you teach to modeling this headphone? Or do you have some tutorial that to teaching it?

[@jasperkurten5993]

Can you guys make a tutorial about your layout in cinema4d!? I can't find the rendering window which is on your right side of your layout. But I love it :)

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Check out this tutorial. It covers the render window and you can also get the layout here. greyscalegorilla.com/tutorials/setup-an-interactive-render-window-in-cinema-4d-for-faster-feedback/

[@frontrunner3345]

How do u see the perspective already on how its gone look like? In wich settings can u turn that on?

[@HKDeen]

Thanks for the awesome tutorials! Does topcoat support third party shaders ?

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Only Physical renderer right now. Thanks for the question.

[@WorryDesigns]

very good tips! can I please have the title of the openers music track? :D

[@TheKrankgamer]

I would love to have a full version of your intro song

[@realita90]

is there any tutorial about how you make this intro fracture animation?

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Not yet.

[@procam123]

I understand when you explain it.

[@KurtSoul]

This guy is 💯

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Thanks!

[@litoondev7460]

Great tutorial bro. I'm new in C4D. Can you please instruction me ? How can I learn C4D Step by step

[@Greyscalegorilla]

We've got just the thing greyscalegorilla.com/intro-to-cinema-4d/

[@vkprojectVIDEO]

👏

[@Crimsonpattyletsplay]

how do you get that render rigon window were you have it? i dont have either of these plugins but atlest learning how to do that would be something haha

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Check out this tutorial on how to get that render window working. greyscalegorilla.com/tutorials/setup-an-interactive-render-window-in-cinema-4d-for-faster-feedback/

[@Crimsonpattyletsplay]

thanks so much :)

[@ethaneveraldo]

How come the headset has an outdoor reflection with trees? How do you change this?

[@7dollarburrito]

Any ideas to replicating the effect in Octane? Converting C4D materials to Octane usually works (more or so than not) but it doesnt track over in this case. Any tips GSG? Anyone?

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Not sure. You may want to contact octane for customer support.

[@digitalfyistudio]

I wish you would have also covered how you got the HDRI image in your reflection. If you start with just a basic lighting setup you dont see these wonderful reflections like you have in this video.

[@Greyscalegorilla]

The reflections were made with our HDRI Studio Rig Plugin and one of our HDRIs. greyscalegorilla.com/product/hdri-studio-rig/

[@rasserfrasser]

The premise of this video, is when using materials in Cinema 4D, think coatings not colors. Like how you'd paint a car. Way cool, thank you.

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Thank you for the comment. Thanks for watching!

[@itsall3d749]

i followed this tutorial but when i applied it on to the object it just turns shiny black and not red? could you help please

[@inigoropner7511]

hi mate - i don't have reflectance i have 'reflection' and theres is no option to add layers within reflection. any ideas ?

[@Greyscalegorilla]

What version of Cinema 4D are you running?

[@inigoropner7511]

thanks for the reply - was very old. updated now. cheers

[@IlyaAndreev-1]

Does anyone know why my render is to noisy ? I do exactly as it's in tutorial but the color is not good

[@vidahellgamonalvalderrama985]

THE SONG OF INTRO?

[@lilpocketboy]

I like throwing a little spectral in here and there. but blows up render time :/

[@Greyscalegorilla]

Yeah, spectral is a time hit. But also very pretty.

[@mrgrey9141]

Hello sir, may i know your pc specs sir?

[@KurtSoul]

Is that redshift viewer ?

[@Greyscalegorilla]

This is created with Physical Render. Before Redshift was built in.

[@KurtSoul]

@@Greyscalegorilla thanks.. how can I get a faster render because when I use redshift materials and render it can take almost 15 minutes per frame 9n a project animation that's set at 60 fps s9 takes a very long time as 8m paying 40 pound a month for redshift... I have a channel called VISION X VISUALS, there's a lancer evolution driving in the fog and that was only 4 seconds of render that I had to loop on movavi editor after redshift took 2 hours justbto render 24 frames

[@AhmedSaad-ii8mp]

topcoat cant work i am have r20 why :(

[@Greyscalegorilla]

We have multiple versions of Topcoat. Be sure to install the R20 version. Also Please contact our support and they will make sure you are taken care of. support.greyscalegorilla.com/

[@mukilanik4865]

"Fresnel"

[@FischersFritze12]

great Tips, but only Commerce

[@R3DMyst]

I'm sorry to say this but this was quite disappointing, been waiting for another GSG tutorial for ages, and it was the same thing i've seen you guys do before... Or it feels like it to say the least.

[@Greyscalegorilla]

+M³ If you have seen all of our tutorials, you probably have seen these tips before. I use them in pretty much every project. These tips are for people that haven't seen all of our videos. We put out videos every week here. So be sure to check back for more soon.