Cinema 4D Tutorial - Creating Stylized Sketch Animations Using the Cinema 4D Art Shader

[@ELECTR0HERMIT]

Love these tutorials, you are the best.

[@troypicou]

Just found your channel and all I can say is, wow! Thanks for sharing. I am very inspired to create.

[@eyedesyn]

+Troy Picou Thanks Troy!

[@GeniusEngineering]

Wow just wow, I just started working with cinema 4D today. Still super noobie but I am so glad I discovered your channel. Cinema 4D seems like an extremly powerful. Will definitely continue watching your tutorials. Thank you EJ, keep on making great videos!

[@Moneyaddthenmultiply]

Another question: does the specular move with the light in this texture or is it also baked into the texture psd file? Like if we moved the camera around, is there just plain blue behind the bird with no specular or would there just be the same image in the render? That's confusing me lol.

[@kellyburnsnewyork]

Amazing! Thanks EJ! But how to render the full sketch and toon art (with outlines & shading) but with no background?? Thanks! :)

[@ProfessorRGB]

Great Stuff EJ. I missed the first 15 mins initially, so thanks for posting.

[@eyedesyn]

+Nate Phillips Awesome! Thanks for tuning into the live cast!

[@m4r_art]

Staring at that bird was the best thing I've done today

[@eyedesyn]

same here!

[@m4r_art]

For some reason I can't keep a straight face while staring at the birdie xD props on managing a nearly hour long tut back then, it's a lovely example for the Art Shader xD

[@Inthegame-l7p]

Any idea how to replicate the art shader in Blender?

[@kenm3ng121]

awsome tutorial!

[@eyedesyn]

+XiaoJian Meng Thanks!!!!

[@leonnikoo]

Thanks EJ, this has been really helpful. One thing I wanted to be able to do is wrap the texture around and tile it, but I think I may have to do this a different way. L

[@leuchtelicht]

awesome tutorial, thanks for sharing!

[@eyedesyn]

+leuchtelicht Thanks for watching!

[@MrRuru59]

j'adore ce rendu...Merci pour ce tuto.

[@vladyslavlavrenov9167]

U are a master

[@rickdogg5996]

Awesome bro. Thank you

[@Moneyaddthenmultiply]

Is there any way to import animated rigged characters from any other app to apply these amazing shaders to? I tried alembic before but I probably did something wrong because I couldn't apply materials to the imported alembic file. I have a bad feeling it's not possible, and you have to rig your characters in c4d to use these shaders. That sucks (not dissing c4d, but I've done some rigging in Maya, and I'm certainly no professional rigger, but I enjoyed the fact that Maya has sooooo much better support and rigging tools, not to mention scripts). 3d software is so frustrating sometimes, especially if you want them to play with each other.

[@jayakumarseenivasan]

Excellent work man👏👏👏👏😀🍻

[@eyedesyn]

Thank you and thanks for watching!

[@Yaichiru]

Awesome tutorial man! really love it! but i don't know why when i apply the materia to my object it appears as reflection n not as a texture :( maybe u know why?

[@vitorcosta5311]

This is great! Thank you!

[@hynkel8454]

Is there a way to get a similar look with octane's toon shader?

[@eyedesyn]

not that i know of!

[@milda197905]

Is there any way to get art shader affected by real lights? (eg "deform" the specular part/shadows somehow to mimic brush strokes)

[@babaydragon]

this is awesome ... 💓💓

[@VincentWuAnimation]

Would this cartoon shader respond to lights?

[@stickeagle2136]

awsome tutorial! I respect you :)

[@Prfmaestre]

viejo tienes el don en mi en lo coloquial se diría eres el papa de los helados

[@Blemboy]

your videos are amazing!

[@Alain-pb7xp]

where is exactly the art shader? i dont find it in content browser

[@rubyrieke874]

I don't either

[@xlittleman758]

Is there any equivalent to this in Maya?? Trying to render with redshift but Toon, Redshift and maya dont seem to get along...

[@eyedesyn]

Never used Maya so I couldn't tell ya!

[@pnvgordinho]

The art shader only works with organic / round models right?.

[@eyedesyn]

Works with any type of model, same as cel shader can work with any kind of model.

[@pnvgordinho]

BUt if I apply the art shader to a cube, I only get one blue color and not that degrade. I change the projection but nothing happens.

[@johnerdman9003]

Hey EJ- I actually have C4D Studio (R17.055), but I can't seem to find the art shader you're using. Am I missing something? Thx!

[@johnerdman9003]

Nvm-- it looks like a lot of presets were purged from previous versions of c4d

[@eyedesyn]

I found that as well, or they were moved around. There should be a Sketch folder with some of those remaining assets in there.

[@MANIAKRA]

Damn this is really awesome. Trying to figure out how to do similar in Arnold & VRay..

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks! Chad Ashley is doing some cool tests with Arnold toon shading!

[@MANIAKRA]

@@eyedesyn I know I saw! Also check out this dudes Spiderverse replicated Arnold shader, he nailed it: www.artstation.com/artwork/Jlw9bn

[@phm6834]

My interactive render region always flushes before recalculation - is there a way to change that? I would like to see - exactly like in this video - the new iteration render on top of the one before.

[@eyedesyn]

If you move around in the viewport, it'll refresh like that, but if you just change a parameter it'll render right on top of the old render, it's just the nature of how IRR works

[@phm6834]

did i understand correct that it should render on top when changing a paramenter? mine doesnt. As soon as changing any parameter, it gives me a black imagine in the irr and then renders the buckets.

[@TerryKuo77764]

Where can i find these sketch preset! IS AMAZING

[@TheAndrewBen]

Watch at the 1:00 mark

[@supricraft2831]

the software what your use? cinema 4d R14 or cinema 4d lite? please reply my question

[@eyedesyn]

I use Cinema 4D R18 at this point but many of my tutorials can be done in R14.

[@elihaghrezaei6238]

thank u soo much!

[@eyedesyn]

Very welcome, thanks for watching!

[@riteshvarma8700]

how can we generate these kind if painted lights and shadows with cinema lights, instead of painting as a texture ?

[@eyedesyn]

My new Spiderverse tutorial will help with this! kzbin.info/www/bejne/naTWpohje7mBgKM

[@riteshvarma8700]

@@eyedesyn awesome !!! I'll check it out :)

[@5evenasn]

Hello great tutorial !! btw can u please do a tutorial on how to create a 2d-ish character in cinema 4d like the bird from this tutorial and talk about the angels and how to give it that look of 2d stylized animations

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks! I do plan on doing some simple modeling tutorials soon!

[@5evenasn]

ily , much appreciated ! keep going , you're on the right track

[@eyedesyn]

Really glad to hear it, thanks for watching!

[@YungR0]

do you amazing can you do a tutorial on how to animate text very smoothly?

[@eyedesyn]

+official ronin I go over that a bit in this tutorial kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZ_WmJSqnrWChrs

[@awilsonator]

Does it have to be a Photoshop file?

[@eyedesyn]

no it can be any texture file as long as it's setup using that circle template i showed

[@bndki34]

Thank you for awesome tutorial as always! Just wondering, is the outline method for this bird the same as the glove one you did after this video? I'm looking at your hierarchy list but I don't see any duplicates! Seems like a little different method, it would be honor to learn how to do that :)

[@bndki34]

Oh nevermind! Sketch style :)

[@eyedesyn]

Yessir! :)

[@robertidonotsharemyfullnam496]

thx, now i know that the bird is the word. AGAIN.

[@eyedesyn]

BOOM! haven't you heard!?

[@danielmotion1754]

Why doesnt my meterial stick to the object? It doesnt move with my object.

[@eyedesyn]

Try a Stick Texture tag!

[@danielmotion1754]

Thanks for the reply, but that also doesnt work :(

[@eyedesyn]

Do you have deformers applied to it to animate or what type of movement are you adding?

[@inteligenciafutura]

ninja gaiden yaiba effect please, please , please

[@danielmoutia]

I don't have that sketch folder with all those sweet shaders? Any idea where they would be?

[@eyedesyn]

If you dont have Studio or Visualize versions of C4D that include the Sketch & Toon module, you won't have those Sketch presets.

[@rubyrieke874]

@@eyedesyn I have Studio but it's not in my presets

[@makfarik]

pls material (

[@eyedesyn]

Hey there! I show you how you can create it yourself in the video so give it a shot!

[@InvasiveAlienPlants]

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[@senior5904]

Is there a download link?

[@eyedesyn]

I do not provide project files, sorry!

[@INIXIE360]

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[@Frietuurs]

What I am a little annoyed by is that you guys have all these wonderful tutorials, but you never explain how to achieve such a bird BEFORE you applied the textures. How to render it correctly, how to use lights, etc etc. You never explain it. This is a recurring theme on all your sketch and toon tutorials. Or maybe I'm blind or something. Lighting is a bitch to work with when you're using sketch and toon, so some help would be appreciated. Or just send me your project file, so I can look at it myself.

[@eyedesyn]

The tutorial is all about the texturing so covering the modeling wouldn't be on-topic, and this is the way for most of my tutorials! There are many many many tutorials on lighting on GSG that you can learn very useful techinques for that. If I covered every single topic in every single tutorial each tutorial would be 3 hours long! :) And as for sketch and toon, I always cover lighting because it's typically one single Infinite light. And in this specific tutorial, there is no lighting involved, it's all in the art shader setup. All the knowledge you seek is already out there! :)