Cinema 4D Tutorial - Beautiful Growth Patterns (Octane)

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Download the pack of 5 reaction-diffusion pattern videos: gum.co/ReactionDiffusion1
Pattern animations are 15-25 seconds long, 4K and B&W.
In this C4D tutorial we'll learn how to make a material grow on top of another material using Octane rendering engine. We'll use beautiful Reaction Diffusion patterns (aka Turing Patterns) to make the material grow in interesting ways.
00:00 - Intro
00:23 - Scene Setup
01:27 - Light Setup
03:00 - Showing the Reaction-Diffusion Patterns
03:34 - Texturing
09:26 - Texturing - Another Example
10:43 - Finalizing Details
12:26 - Setting a Quick Camera Animation
13:16 - Outro
You can make your own patterns using the Alive tool for AE: videohive.net/item/alive-tool...
You can download the head model for free here: www.3dscanstore.com/blog/Free...

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This looks amazing, dude! By the way...you did kind of inadvertently roughly explain what the stage object is. Hahaha!

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Lolol well, I guess sometimes all you need is one sentence to explain something!

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I got a few check out the rest of my channel, I'll do more tho!

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[@NotCerius]

It can be procedural if we use a noise as the mix texture, amazing tutorial btw

[@NewPlastic]

Absolutely! I use it a lot. Unfortunately Octane can't calculate more complex calculations like Diffusion Reaction patterns, so using a video makes it easier.

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Yessir, a quick tip video about exporting passes is on the way!

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Please make an updated Redshift version🙏

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thanks for this technique, can you also do the tutorial for skin texture aswell?

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You're welcome, yeah I'll probably do one I just need to figure out what I can show that hasn't already been shown in other tutorials.

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Hey I just uploaded a skin texture tutorial, feel free to check it out!

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Amazing! How can I achieve this with Redshift...I'm a beginner and would appreciate your inputs

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[@charlesbooth3176]

If you wanted more control over the reveal aspect of the animation could you use a static bitmap and mitigate/mask it with a vertex map node? Then you could generate vertex maps using fields? Heck--it seems like you could use fields to create the reaction diffusion in the first place and then you'd have full procedural control in C4D. is something like that possible with octane displacement? I am normally redshift user.

[@NewPlastic]

Hey! Great points! In theory it makes sense but in practice not so much and here's why: Vertex maps rely on mesh density for resolution. So if you want to have such a clean r-d map, the mesh you work with would have to be SO dense it would be unworkable! The point about getting r-d using fields is very interesting, I tried it a few times but unfortunately c4d is just not built for that. It's extremely unpredictable and such and easily volatile process that it's impossible to have creative control over. The calculations needed for that are also pretty slow, and tie that with the need for a very dense mesh to get a clean map results in, again, an extremely slow feedback. That's exactly why I wanted to come up with a more efficient and easy way to create this look, and came to the conclusion that using a video of reaction diffusion is the fastest and most easily controlled way!

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This is amazing, but i'm so sad,r19 version there isn't calculate button on image texture and doesn't work for my, can anyone explain me why? i'm getting mad

[@NewPlastic]

Are you sure there isn't? If I remember correctly I used to have that in r19. What Octane version are you using?

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I love this render, do you know if it's possible to have the same effect with redshift? I don't have octane :/

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Yes definitely, I think I replied to one of the comment about redshift. Just look into material mixing in Redshift, it should be a very very similar process, then you can use these maps to mix the materials in Redshift.

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[@crystalmethvfx]

Thanks so much for this tutorial but i need help i dont know happend but i dont see "calculator" in image texture-animation i dont see calculator. I make videos before with this tutorial and now i dont know what happendd :(

[@NewPlastic]

Make sure you use the ImageTexture node in Octane, but it might just be a bug ?

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Hey man, how could this bevel like effect done in Octane version 3.07? I don't have the vertex displacement option unfortunately.

[@NewPlastic]

You can simply use the Texture Displacement node, but you'll need good UVs for that

[@alexander-mosesgoldberg538]

if anyone knows a redshift tutorial that would be great. I've looked up tutorials for mixing the materials but coming into problems when inputting the image sequence for the texture

[@NewPlastic]

What kind of problems are you running into? Make sure that in the image node where you add the first frame of your sequence, you go to Animation tab and set the Start Frame to 1, and the End Frame to whatever number your last image of your sequence is. Also adjust the mode to Simple and your Frame Rate to the frame rate of your sequence. Then hit render and scroll thru see if it works. You can check this tutorial by Ross Mason he shows how to use a sequence in Redshift material. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIXReZqpo5qSlbs

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@@NewPlastic Tried what you said but still can't make it work. Once I switch the animation mode from Off to Simple (or any other mode) it turns black and stops showing anything. Any idea? Thank you

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@@pablobeltran5681 Yup it's probably a matter of sequence. Make sure that if the name of your jpg sequence starts with 0, enter 0 in the 1st frame in the octane animation node. if it starts with 1, input 1. Let me know if that helped

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@@NewPlastic I'm trying to make it work in redshift but still can't make it, the animation doesn't run. I've tried with different sequences, different animation modes... No idea of what's the problem

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I will very soon

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Hello I love your tutorial. I tried to apply this technique to my model, but my model requires high subdivision level to make proper displacement. So the file always crashes(I used Rhino IO to import my file). Is there a way to avoid this? Thank you

[@NewPlastic]

Hey thanks for watching bud! So you imported the model to C4D from Rhino? Is the model very low poly? Whats the level of displacement subdivision you're at when it crashes?

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Is it possible to sync the animation to audio ?

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I did! It was one of my earlier tutorials, look for it on my channel

[@alisaid.86]

For some reasons when I select Calculate on the Animation tab of the ImageTexture, it just goes to zero and theres no frames calculated - So no animation is happening although it looks like the first image in the sequence is uploading. Can anyone help me with that?

[@alisaid.86]

oh damn I figured it out - the image sequence needs the frame number included at the end of the name

[@NewPlastic]

Good to know you solved it!

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[@Jhizzle473]

How do you do this without the growth I saw someone do it to just a face

[@NewPlastic]

You mean without the animation?

[@diegom.bonati8001]

The best part of the tutorial is the reaction diffusion patterns. it's a pity that you don't give a single clue on how to make them

[@NewPlastic]

Hah I can totally see where you're coming from. I should've emphasized more that this is not a "how to create an RD pattern" tutorial. I'm far from able to explain how the Alive tool works and especially how coding works. The main essence of this tutorial was to show how easily you can fake a growth effect with a texture and I just used these cool patterns as placeholder for any other animated map. The thing about RD patterns is that they're such complex mathematical calculations that creating them procedurally in C4D is just too much of a hassle to be practical. That's why I provided the videos which save you the headache and let you just have fun visually. But there's definitely tutorial out there about Alive tool and about achieving RD patterns using vertex map calculations (by Motion Designer's Community).

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@@NewPlastic I have seen that you say Alive tools and this is already a good reference, what happens is that I understood Live tools and I could not find anything with this name more than tutorials of other things, otherwise it is perfect for me, thanks.

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Hey can you please make a tutorial about the metallic text??

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@@nia995 Thank you! And what do you mean metallic text just generally how to make metallic surfaces on text?

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​@@NewPlastic Sorry! I meant the metallic texture/material you used in this tutorial :D It's one of the most realistic i've seen in tutorials, would be great to know the process!

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can be done in redshift?

[@NewPlastic]

I'm sure it can, I'm not too familiar with Redshift but all you need is a way to mix two materials, then use the video texture to mix them together

[@minahany7091]

So i can use blend material node to mix then and the video to create the look?

[@NewPlastic]

@@minahany7091 Yessir, just plug the video texture into the "Blend Color" of the layer your trying to blend with the Base Color.

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[@NewPlastic]

@@minahany7091 You're welcome! Happy I could help

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Calculate button not available , i am on r19

[@NewPlastic]

Hmm r19 definitely has a Calculate button, maybe it's your octane version?

[@blvk_inc]

@@NewPlastic probably , i dont have the cal button but i can manually add the num of frames and it worked

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It's limited but every engine has its limitations. And being the cheapest engine out there, I can't agree that it's too expensive. I would say it's actually to most cost effective engine out there! Very powerful, looks incredible, and you can pay literally 20$ to start working with it.

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Haha well I guess the effect works then!

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