Cloth Inflation Simulations in Cinema 4D | Cloth Stitching Effect Tutorial

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#Cinema4D 2023's new dynamic cloth simulation system is a massive upgrade over the old one and it allows you achieve amazing results that will make you wonder if it was made in Houdini! 🤔 In this video, EJ will show you how to create beautiful cloth inflation simulation renders with ease.
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00:00 Intro
00:20 Cloth Setup
01:57 Introduction to Balloon Dynamics
06:54 Importing Illustrator Paths into C4D
08:25 Using Dynamic Connectors
13:38 Creating Wrinkles with Target Length
17:13 Using Mix Animation Pins
20:35 Creating Cloth Stitching Effect
25:40 Wrap Up
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[@ltpelletier]

One more amazing tutorial, EJ! Thanks! I would be curious to know how you applied a different texture (red) to your logo.

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks! Great question! So the logo is super easy, it's simply a single texture and I just made the spline match where the logo was on the material that I applied on the plane object.

[@ltpelletier]

@@eyedesyn Right! The old Redshift method, of course! I was trying with a second material on top (with alpha) for the logo but it gets displaced in a weird way. Thanks again! By the way, I guess the next step would be for someone to use this in replacement of Marvelous Designer (a fine software, but with sometimes a bit of a frustrating workflow). For simple objects, like a superhero cape or a bed sheet, no trouble at all. But for a winter coat or pants? I would love to see that! Up for a challenge? ;0)

[@TheGodlike300]

@@eyedesyn Hi EJ! Sorry to chime in here, but I don't quite understand this! Did you use the spline to mask something out on the material?

[@A7medBoODa]

@@eyedesyn can you explain more pls 🙏

[@fgarciaish]

This is a fantastic tut EJ!!! Love these new techniques that are possible with the latest updates. I’ve also been trying to wrap my head around the mix animation stuff so this is great.

[@eyedesyn]

Mix animation is just like the Follow Position/Follow Rotation! can think about it like that!

[@adamvlux]

Your stuff keeps getting higher quality! Really fun to watch. We love your tutorials and we're grateful for you!

[@eyedesyn]

Happy to hear that! Thanks for watching!

[@CA-kg3vc]

Man EJ has been on fire recently. Greatly appreciating your recent tutorials man. Keep up the amazing work!

[@eyedesyn]

Glad you like them! Appreciate all the love and support!

[@MajorasMaskk]

Amazing tut as always EJ. Thanks for creating these for us!

[@eyedesyn]

wow from the caped crusader himself! thanks!

[@ExpressoMechanicTV]

Absolutely incredible. Thanks so much for sharing!

[@eyedesyn]

Glad you think so! Thanks for watching! :)

[@joacim.w]

Thanks for the tutorial EJ! Awesome!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching!!!

[@wolfgangbiebach8610]

What a great new feature in C4D. And a very helpful tutorial about it. I had recently received a customer inquiry about creating 3D illustrations of airbags. This would have been the solution! Thanks a lot EJ, your tutorials are just great!

[@eyedesyn]

Glad to hear this can be immediately useful for you!

[@lumatrace]

Just found your channel and super impressed! Love the detailed explanation while keeping a fast pace. Made experimenting with soft cloth super easy. Thank you and great job!

[@eyedesyn]

Super happy you discovered my channel and you’re enjoying it! More to come and thanks for watching!! 🙏

[@albancontrepois]

Great tutorial EJ ! Thank you !

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching!!! 🙏🙏🙏

[@andrearusky]

This looks amazing! Thank you man! 👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@eyedesyn]

Cheers - thank you!

[@albertsitoe7340]

My dude you are an absolute inspiration, a freaking king well done for the years of quality tutorials thank you so much. Maxon is luck to have a dude like you EJ

[@eyedesyn]

I appreciate those super kind words! Thanks for watching and your support! 🙏🙏🙏

[@toqw2]

This is SO COOL! Thanks for the tutorial!

[@eyedesyn]

Very welcome, thanks for watching!!!!

[@christiangoudy8174]

Most powerful C4d Tutorial I've seen in a Long time!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching!!

[@Csingleton85]

Thanks for the great tutorial AND the discount code. I’ll be putting this to good use.

[@eyedesyn]

Awesome to hear! Thanks for watching!!!

[@MirAnsaruddinWasif-zv3ju]

loved it. such an awesome technique. Thanks a lot for spreading the knowledge.

[@eyedesyn]

My pleasure - thanks for watching!

[@armena2866]

Legend, thanks so much for making this mate!

[@eyedesyn]

Cheers, thanks for watching!

[@NNNurika]

Thank You for your work, very useful and informative content 🙌

[@eyedesyn]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!

[@benfryc]

Another great tut EJ! 👏

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks so much!

[@mikebdaniels]

freaking awesome - thanks for the tutorial

[@eyedesyn]

Glad you liked it!

[@tojiyev_cg]

As alwasys awesome tutorial. Thank you EJ!

[@eyedesyn]

Glad you liked it!

[@CoffeeMike]

Learned a lot, thanks for the tut👍

[@eyedesyn]

So pumped to hear that, thanks for watching!!!!

[@5_v]

Thank you so much sir! Very interesting technique!

[@eyedesyn]

Glad you liked it!

[@rakhimzhanovd1060]

EJ, Thank you for your work👍

[@eyedesyn]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@FlavioDutra26]

what wonderful content!!! Congratulations

[@eyedesyn]

Thank you so much!

[@mjdinstrumentosmusicais2021]

Ima download it thanks for sharing!!

[@eyedesyn]

Woop!!

[@lkaiki3420]

thank u so much EJ.

[@eyedesyn]

You're very welcome!

[@user-yx2fz8lm8u]

Vertex map in fields is something that came from the secret Shao Lin techniques! Mind blowing!!

[@eyedesyn]

Agreed! So powerful!

[@altberg__]

really nice. love it. thanks

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching!

[@petrholusa5855]

7:23 Hahaa love it. So true. Even illustrator is so slow. Doesn't matter how strong your PC is.

[@Peepeepoopoo.podcast]

dang dude. this is awesome. thank you

[@eyedesyn]

very welcome - thanks for watching!!!

[@spIette]

Omg the Blender joke at the beginning, why am I laughing this much.

[@eyedesyn]

😂😂😂😂

[@JonathanWinbush]

Did you know the cube comes free with Blender 👌🏾

[@NotTheLarryDavid]

And most people remove it. :D

[@eyedesyn]

Absolutely

[@brunobordini7696]

Blender users are malding!

[@colinmichaels3813]

@@eyedesyn blender users getfuckeddd I love our C4D community

[@_m3atball]

This is awesome!

[@eyedesyn]

Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers!

[@talhazulqarnain2126]

Amazing tutorial, Now I can design headboard easily.

[@eyedesyn]

There you go!

[@SansFamille]

thx for tutorial, very helpful

[@eyedesyn]

happy to hear it! thanks for watching!

[@cindyhervier7449]

Wow! it's Amazing I did it well ! Perfect work !

[@eyedesyn]

Great job! Thanks for watching!

[@marpro_3D]

Using like 15 fps to record yourself so the Simulation looks even smoother. Very Clever! 😄

[@eyedesyn]

hahaha dude i dunno wtf happened with my camera for this tut but it was STRUGGLIN

[@ibrahimalmouyad]

Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful technique with us.. If possible, another Tutorial for making materials

[@eyedesyn]

So the material was from Substance Source! They have a ton of awesome textures, loads and loads of cloth ones! They're very drag & drop!

[@ManualMashups]

OMG 😱 What an amazing tutorial! Thank you so much! Would you be able to discuss how you colored the logo?

[@zilavostcompany5963]

Worked, thx

[@eyedesyn]

Good to hear

[@cosmosunited]

so cool!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching!

[@3D_inLove]

OMG this is awesome... i'll try to make something like that in Blender...good luck for me LOL...thank u so much for sharing it's really an inspiration for me...

[@eyedesyn]

Let me know how it goes!

[@farid.rabhallah]

waw, amazing very fresh video, thank you sir.

[@eyedesyn]

thank YOU for watching!

[@goodvibesberlin]

love the blender joke XD Thanks for the tutorial!!

[@trojanboy8]

amazing tutorial !! thank you so much. Can you please tell us how to make the M with a different color

[@trojanboy8]

Amazing Tutorial .. thank you !! I was wondering if you can make a part 2 on how to color the cloth with red color like the video thumbnail ? if there is a way to do that

[@kevinsavuwa]

you make learning easy!! thanks dude... just wondering if you could possibly do a cloth to cloth sim one day... thanks

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for the kind words!! What do you mean 'cloth to cloth'?

[@kevinsavuwa]

@@eyedesyn cloth to cloth as in 2 different objects( geo)simulation lets say pillow case falling ontop of another pillow case (in this case im not using soft bodies because maybe i need to use the cloth tear option).. 2nd scnarios whereby objects change form or move after colliding with cloth without baking PLA data and using the cloth object as collider body.. 3rd lol cloth and hair module iinteraction.. thanx

[@saeglopur74]

EJ, first of all, thank you for putting this out!!

[@xpez9694]

great tutorial. I really appreciate the 4k resolution. its like c4d is open on my machine..LOL

[@eyedesyn]

Glad you like it!

[@jonjones4972]

Lol I like how you've added Bob Ross when mentioning him🤣

[@eyedesyn]

Always gotta throw the GOAT in there!

[@jonjones4972]

@@eyedesyn i know you're extremely busy with life and cats maybe dogs, but have you ever thought about teaching local in Denver?

[@METTI1986LA]

Amazing, the only thing we now need for c4d is a fluid and fire simulation for free and it would be the perfect program

[@eyedesyn]

I agree! If you saw the CEO's twitter - it looks like fire is not far from being released!

[@langslandland9667]

Thanks EJ! How to texture that in Redshift ?

[@navenstine]

Hi EJ, I love this tutorial. I just have one question. I can't seem to drop a quilt I've made this way. The pins made with the vertex map don't seem to recognise the gravity,and just hold parts of the cloth up. Is there a button I've missed? Thanks.

[@MansooryanPowerPro]

Great Tutorial ... Thanks, the Mix Animation Tab is only on C4d 2023? since I'm suing r26 and can't find it

[@eyedesyn]

That is correct! It was added in 2023

[@ArgoBeats]

Great one! I need to connect a dynamic object to a pre-animated object, is there a way to make the first to follow the pre-animated one, can't quite solve the problem, before it was possible to assign a Ghost Body tag (Bullet) but can't find something like that for the new Simulation system.

[@eyedesyn]

Theres no ridig bodies in the new system yet, so what you can do is use the old rigid body system, bake the old dynamics and then apply a colllider tag to the baked object with the cached old rigid body dynamics

[@DeibydPerez]

Hi EJ. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. I have a question: have you ever made a natural scene using quixel megascans and Cinema 4d? I would like to know a little more about that integration of programs. I would like to pay for a course on that subject at school of motion. Again thank you very much.

[@eyedesyn]

Hey there! There are a ton of tutorials covering megascans and c4d, in fact my one NAB 2022 presentation was on this topic! kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipvLiqx5n9xnp8U

[@mitch4248]

Hey, thank you so much for your tutorials. Really appreciated! I have a general question and hope you can help me out. In the new 2023 the Collision Tolerance is gone and no matter what settings I fiddle with in the scene/simulation tab, I always have huge distance between the two objects. Thanks in advance!

[@eyedesyn]

Hmmm - it might be because you need more Substeps (in the dynamic settings), you could also need more subdivisions on your mesh for more accurate results, it might also be scene scale, your objects may be way too small. Let me know if any of those help - if not I can keep thinking! :)

[@mitch4248]

​@@eyedesyn Hey, thank you very much for the reply. Unfortunately the scene scale has no effect at all and the objects are all enough subdivided. Do you mean the settings in the simulation tab with the collision steps and iterations? I pumped the numbers up but it also only helps with intersecting areas. Really appreciate it!

[@mitch4248]

@@eyedesyn Hey, I found the solution while watching your 2023 cloth simulation tutorial from school of motion! All you have to do is decrease the thickness value inside the softbody tag. Easy as that, so thanks again!

[@keko1174]

sweet

[@cafarellidigital]

Heads-up, since I didn't see anyone saying it, the frame-rate of your face cam seems to be like 15fps. Your screen capture looks great though. Nice tutorial

[@eyedesyn]

Yeah I don't know what the issue with my camera is - it was working fine for so long and now its all stuttery - ah you gotta love PCs lol

[@aar.on3d]

Yoo, Mr EJ so good at these informative lessons! One question: I am trying to create this with 12 splines (your case only 5) yet when I hit play for the inflation, C4D jams and computer fan starts running later an error pops up - Not enough memory. Any ideas why pleasee?

[@eyedesyn]

With more splines means more processing needed to do the simulations, so you could try to optimize by using geometry with less subdivisions!

[@Rovsan4d]

Great tutorial !!! How to create a realistic Flag simulation?

[@eyedesyn]

Great suggestion!

[@realizeestamparia540]

finally found thanks to the author

[@eyedesyn]

🎈

[@_o__o_]

i tried the setup with the dynamic connectors. but instead of using ropes i tried using a point selection tag with fields. in the field i put a spline. in the dynamic connectors tag i checked on "same object" and dragged the point selection tag into the "point restriction". works beautifully... b u t if i try to animate the spline that creates the point selection (like you did in your second setup with mix animation) , the dynamic connectors dont update from frame to frame. i checked "update live" but no luck... is this a bug or simply a limitation? thanks!

[@eyedesyn]

Bug/limitation I bet!

[@ArjunKumar1108]

Hi, I loved your tutorial! I made a cloth inflation that had various letters. However now I want to add different materials to those inflated letters. Can you please suggest how to do that?

[@eyedesyn]

You can try polygon selections or you can use a UV mapped texture which is what I did in this project file!

[@9212Iowa]

@@eyedesyn I came for this comment, and I'm leaving with a solution, I love you. :*

[@9212Iowa]

@@eyedesyn the polygonos selection, maybe its is imposible, because your plane, you objects, its not editable. i dont not.

[@CettyTV]

How did you get the different colors?

[@user-jw6js4ml3j]

i cant get the menu for scene wide dynamic settings to open with ctrl+cmd+D, is this the correct shortcut for mac? is there a way to manually pull it up?

[@eyedesyn]

CTRL or CMD (Depending on Mac/Windows) + D,

[@timvanderwiel5105]

If I put anytime of animation in my vertex maps, be it with linear fields updating of a shader field with an animated noise, I place it in the mix animation un check deformed points and it wont update in the simulation even though it does work in the vertex map view..

[@timvanderwiel5105]

tested it with colleagues and it also doesnt work with them..

[@timvanderwiel5105]

Ok it will work if there is a field underneath like here were there are some keyframes in there. otherwise it wont update per frame

[@eyedesyn]

I believe this is a bug that you have to do this - so you're not doing anything wrong really, it's just some bugs that need to be ironed out!

[@nymarekintvilik8371]

can any a 3d letters for a logo be made of the clothes simulation or it is just you add symbol or image on the clothe simulation fabric/material. so basically it is to have each 3d letters made of the clothes material and run a simulation than to have a logo imprint on the fabric?

[@eyedesyn]

Yes! I just made some tutorials covering this topic!

[@Wappie21]

Can i bake one frame so i have an editeble objects that stays in that state?

[@sjmh11]

Hey but when you use the vertex, the gravity doesnt work on the object right? Cause the simulation works fine on mine but the object is not falling

[@kaihi178]

hey ej, is it worth switching to windows to use redshift RT?

[@eyedesyn]

Redshift RT is SUUUUUPER unstable. I would say it's worth switching to use Redshift GPU if you currently can't do it on Mac

[@doyeon0422]

14:34 The c4d version is different, so I don't know where the target length is. I am using R26.

[@eyedesyn]

Target length was added in C4D 2023!

[@JamesSwift-gj5mv]

Hi Guys, great tutorial! I'm wondering is there a way to not make parts inflate?

[@eyedesyn]

You can use vertex maps to control which parts inflate and which dont!

[@hanahamad719]

How do you design in c4d screen wall naked eye 3D and how to convert the screen. flat size.Can you make a video tutorial

[@eyedesyn]

huh whut?

[@MographChamp]

Is there a way to tell Cinema 4D which GPU to use for simulation? I see in the Preferences -> veiwport hardware -> info it's listing one of my eGPUs as the GPU. Similar to how X-Particles has a pref setting to allow me to choose which GPU to use for sims.

[@eyedesyn]

In that menu is where you should be able to choose which one, with eGPUs it might not recognize it. Are you on a Mac?

[@RE_STUDIO]

Amazing tutorial! I would be curious on how to use this technique to create a puffer jacket, your replies and comments would be highly appreciated 🙏

[@eyedesyn]

Yes, definitely! You can apply this same technique!

[@MotionPunk]

did u know blender is free??? lovely tut brother!

[@yodojo3493]

I was looking for this comment... and of course it was thanos haha

[@MotionPunk]

@@yodojo3493 he started it haha!

[@eyedesyn]

get out of here with those LIES!

[@saparjumash]

@@eyedesyn with money like maxon has, and c4d has a competitor like blender. And it is free. So i understand your pain

[@VVVVVVVIC]

Unfortunately I can't find that Simulation tab/option (1:30), is that because I'm using R23?

[@eyedesyn]

You need C4D S26 or 2023 - this is a new feature!

[@andersonaalmeida]

SWWEEETTT

[@ushakovkirill]

How to make the effect of the interaction of cloth with air, namely air resistance? To get the correct dynamics when waving the flag, for example. Is it even possible?

[@eyedesyn]

sure you just need to use the correct forces!

[@iamYork_]

Very cool tutorials as always... Great to see c4d crash every time I render but otherwise looks awesome in the viewport haha... bug report sent...

[@eyedesyn]

😅

[@AlexSmith-hk5kr]

I tried doing this tutorial but I am on the newest version of C4D and cant find the Mix Animation setting in the rope simulation tag! if anyone can help please help this confused newbie

[@raquelita270101]

Did you found out? im having the same issue

[@AlexSmith-hk5kr]

@@raquelita270101 no I haven't so far 😥 please let me know if you find anything!

[@eyedesyn]

The Mix animation Setting is in it's own tab - if you don't see it you may not have updated to the latest version?

[@e.s.1873]

I have the latest c4d student license version from 2023 and still have no simulation tag. Could that maybe be because i dont have the real latest version available in my country?

[@eyedesyn]

Maybe it's due to the student license?

[@adityaa5067]

Bro ! In 1:30 in don't have simulation tab there.. where to find it ??

[@eyedesyn]

You gotta be on the newer versions of C4D!

[@adityaa5067]

@@eyedesyn Then .... Should I want to low my version or can't i find the option in settings?

[@createdaley]

Can this be done with C4D Lite?

[@eyedesyn]

Unfortunately no, C4D Lite does not have the simulations included

[@rebeldesigner]

Now I don't have this "Target Length" option in R26... what to do?

[@eyedesyn]

Upgrade - it’s an option added in C4D 2023!

[@rebeldesigner]

So dear EJ, is there any walkaround... or we have to live with what we have...

[@sicfxmusic]

@@rebeldesigner Yes you have to live with what comes with pirated Cinema 4D 🤣🤣

[@rebeldesigner]

@@sicfxmusic lollll even that is a blessing for us.. 😉

[@brunobordini7696]

EJ! You could call Blender Guru to make a video with you, and ask him to replicate this in Blender in a simple way! Hahahahaha! It would be fun! And ask him why Blender is free!

[@eyedesyn]

Hahaha sounds like a good idea!

[@ROByrneGraphics]

Any way to do this with C4d 25.117?

[@eyedesyn]

Nope all these new techniques rely on the new simulation system!

[@guranonler]

Connector simulation doesn't work on my student licence I don't know why:(

[@eyedesyn]

you're using c4d 2023?

[@guranonler]

@@eyedesyn yes the latest version

[@etourushadze9043]

command +D and there is no simulation tag! help!:((

[@eyedesyn]

Shift + c

[@Clemyfourtwenty]

WHAT BLENDER'S BEEN FREE THIS WHOLE TIME?

[@eyedesyn]

WHO HAVE I BEEN GIVING MONEY TO?!!?

[@strangechess3886]

god bless u xdd

[@eyedesyn]

🙏🎈🙏

[@user-lw1xi9rk9m]

🥰

[@eyedesyn]

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[@dostonabdullayev8153]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@eyedesyn]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@jerrbobb]

What's your Buffalo connection?

[@eyedesyn]

My whole family is from the area!

[@MiseriTrack1]

Wait... Blender is free?

[@eyedesyn]

😏

[@paskahm2698]

what's your computer specs?

[@eyedesyn]

You can read about my full setup here: www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/the-ultimate-cinema-4d-machine

[@eyedesyn]

Highly recommend working with @pugetsystems to help you set up a machine - they helped me a ton!

[@paskahm2698]

@@eyedesyn thank you so much

[@CanErduman]

Great tut! Looks really easy to do! How would you do animated stitches 🪡 like in those cool Nike commercials?

[@eyedesyn]

Hey Can!! Pretty sure that I saw a tutorial from MotionPunk on animating stitches via mograph!

[@j.ssuarez]

First view!🎉

[@eyedesyn]

🙏🙏🙏🙏