C4D TUTORIAL | Bioluminescent Jellyfish PT1 | Modelling, Rigging & Animating [Cinema 4D]

[@CrozDesigns]

Your tutorials are among the most advanced I've watched, yet they are the most simple to follow.

[@DanielDanielsson]

That's really great to hear!

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[@ThomvanVliet]

Jesus christ this is one of the best tutorials I've ever seen in my 8 years of doing animation. Subscribed & keep em coming!

[@DanielDanielsson]

Wow, thanks. That means a lot!

[@ayuvelo]

Boy am I glad that I found you. Btw your voice is so soothing :D

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thanks man!

[@alext8721]

You are Seriously THE BEST C4D MOTION DESIGN TUTOR!! period. big thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@DanielDanielsson]

Well, damn. Thank you!

[@jamieyyoo7608]

Man! your tutorials are the most informative tutorial here on KZbin. I have learnt a lot from them. Thank you.

[@DanielDanielsson]

Sweet!

[@iamwilljane]

You're monster, holy cow!, this is one of the best tutorials out there

[@Eprombeats]

One trick that would significantly speed up the process of animating the jellyfish along its initial spline: Animate one pulse of the jellyfish, then go into the Timeline F-curve mode, select the animated parameters in the timeline, go to Functions > Track After > Offset Repeat After. This will automatically repeat the jelly's pulse motion along the spline.

[@sazaflaz]

Hey man I'm having some problems with the C4D timeline. My jellyfish isn't synching up properly with the timeline. Can you help me out with this? my email is [e-mail]

[@archlungs]

20 minute long tutorial - spent at least an hour scrambling to keep up with the advanced techniques! great fun. exhilarating work! thank you.

[@kaihigham4210]

Daniel you are a hero man, I am so glad i found these tutorials. Seriously i've been learning C4D over the past year with GSG and Eyedesign and all the other great tuts out there but yours really take the cake now. Swift, advanced, clear and simple to follow with zero fucking around and a great sense of humor. Fan-fucking-tastic. Thanks, fo real.

[@DanielDanielsson]

Hey, that means a lot! I make sure to edit out any fucking about.

[@jekpriyanto5984]

i hope u keep going to share everything u know about cinema 4d man, those are the best cinema 4d tutorials i've ever seen love ur voice :D

[@sinacollins666]

You are the only person that can get me to watch a tutorial fully - you are amazing man!

[@DartsHell]

hands down ur tutorials are one of the most professional tutorials i have ever seen and i have seen shit load of tutorials congratulation man ur my favorite youtuber right now PS: i might try this in octane render

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thanks man! :) Please shoot me a link if you do try it in Octane!

[@DartsHell]

i will

[@shreddigitalproductions3738]

Dude you are a master of your craft... and my GF thinks you are the fucking Bob Ross of motion design! Keep these amazing tutorials coming!

[@DanielDanielsson]

Being the Bob Ross of one's industry is the highest of honours. Thank you.

[@rickw101011]

That was bloody magnificent mate. Nothing wrong with your teaching skills either. Thanks. Looking forward to what you conjure up next.

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thanks man. I too am curious what I'll do next... :D

[@edawhg]

Your tutorials are the best I've come across for cinema 4d, you really keep it light and interesting, thank you so much!

[@DanielDanielsson]

Hey, thanks. :)

[@DKIBUI]

First of all that was insane, second of all will follow in part 2 but honestly one of the best tuts I have ever watched. Waiting for the 2nd and 3rd parts

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thanks, they'll be up within a few days!

[@atishuk]

One of the best tutorials I have seen so far...cant wait for other parts for this...really encouraged to learn more of Cinema 4D...Thank you...

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thanks. C4D is really a great package, and the learning curve can be quite wonderful.

[@sidporobic9310]

Amazing tutorial Daniel.

[@cmm9557]

i exactly do the same thing in first two min. but when i hiding my lathe ,its actually disappear...what's wrong..

[@popitastic]

Keep 'em coming DD...there are fab!

[@DanielDanielsson]

Cheers!

[@gregortidholm]

Super nice work! and your voice sounded amazing. "Daniel Danielsson" sounded like a swedish name so I also most say: Sjukt bra jobbat! rösten påminner om en av sr p1 programpresentatörer :) One of the best tutorial for C4d I have seen!

[@DanielDanielsson]

It does sound a bit Swedish, doesn't it... Tack så mycket! ;)

[@diegobarrios1090]

Very nice tutorial Daniel!!

[@yoericktv9610]

Well done Daniel, fantastic. Thank you for sharing.

[@goranthoren5522]

Amazing tut Daniel! Learned tons (as usual). You are a a true 3D wizard.

[@DanielDanielsson]

Cheers! :)

[@jumpkut]

Man. You are the master.

[@sonatahd9877]

wow very nice

[@sallychamdal6755]

Nice tutorial Daniel! Hope your well!

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thanks Sally, I'm goooood. How'd you find me here?

[@pedrosoto1995]

really great tutorial. thanks for your great work.... really waiting for the other two part!

[@Dalversante]

I love your tutorials keep it going!

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thanks!

[@dilenunez]

wow so much new info to learn with your tutorials !! thank you much for taking your time to do this!

[@bord101]

Thank u for the fabulous tutorials, your skill is amazing! Very inspirational and very informative.

[@rodrix4d364]

Apart from Greyscale gorilla and eyedesyn...your one of the best...Thank you PS: BG music it's dope

[@DanielDanielsson]

Awyeah, thanks! :)

[@moomraan]

I love you man

[@Geordietom]

Wow how the hell do you remember all that where did you learn all this I can barely make things move my videos are no where near as complicated as yours you are the MAN!!

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thanks dude! It just sticks to my brain i suppose...

[@PXLGraphics]

Man, I love this tutorial! Your voice, the music, the pace, it's just really perfect in my opinion :) The only thing bothering me a bit is the screen glitch (not quite sure if it's a glitch or if you did it on purpose) on the right and left of the screen :)

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thanks! The 'glitch' is just to get it 16x9 format, but might be better just to leave it with black bars.

[@PXLGraphics]

Daniel Danielsson Ahh I see! Yes, black bars would probably be better, at least for my taste :)

[@danielterrazas]

This tutorial is just awesome. I've learned so many things. Thank you very much!

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thanks for watching!

[@ahmedshakib3883]

Class , pure class, I said it then and i will say it again, keep this up , you are going to get views and subs , like hell.

[@DanielDanielsson]

Many thanks, sir!

[@ahmedshakib3883]

Just turned 27 , I have a long way to go before anyone can call me sir , :). To the main issue , your tutorials are really good and they are of high standards.Thank you for the uploads.

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thank you for watching them!

[@8thballondor]

You lathed the shit out of that spline 🤣👌🏽

[@jamesarnold4671]

You're a goddamn wizard Daniel! Thank you for this.

[@DanielDanielsson]

I'm... I'm a what?

[@sametsarper]

you know so much stuff man

[@asklapios]

perfect tutorial

[@cheshirecat722]

Awesome tutorial! Any chance you could tell us how this would be done with fields in Cinema R20 onwards?

[@craveleaks8102]

Wow, Thank you so much. Great video.

[@huangjesco38]

thank you very much! I can see such wonderful tutorial!

[@muhammadikram8009]

fantastic

[@lalatoyart9475]

WOW very very nice tutorials thanks .

[@lukaszwieczorek3718]

hmm for some reason my object disappears when I hide the lathe, I added the lathe in the object for connect just like video :/ did they change this functionality? using r17

[@DanielDanielsson]

Could be an R17 thing... Just don't hide it, it should go invisible as soon as the Connect references it. Thanks for checkin' the vid!

[@thecrackaddict4640]

Same here, R17 - glad I find your comment.

[@carlosjj662]

Did you fix the problem? Just having the same problem right now...

[@bernhagen93]

pretty good stuff

[@charliebeeching3743]

Great tutorial, really well explained, and it looks amazing! I personally find the background music a bit distracting, but hey, it's still a brilliant tute! Thanks :-)

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thanks! I've been meaning to change it... Well, one day...

[@Vlad-we1pr]

Wow! Wow! Wow! Man, damn, its Great! Thanks for sharing!

[@yidan4654]

very good tutorials！learnt A LOT! Thank you for your sharing!

[@everydayhero3610]

Thank you, sir!

[@rachnataran8555]

Wow.....cudnt be better... thanks heaps Mate...

[@missham]

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!

[@begummm11]

Amazing tutorial.. subscribed!! Btw You have a very nice voice

[@mrpayne99]

Inspirational.

[@armena2866]

Please start making videos again 💕 we need you!

[@DanielDanielsson]

Just a moment... 😉

[@rishikinesis]

Good stuff! "Lathe the shit out of it." LOL :P Learn a lot from you. :)

[@DanielDanielsson]

Gotta learn how to lathe the shit outta stuff! :)

[@ktrzr]

thank you so much for this tutorial!

[@familybusyness8075]

love it !!!!

[@Vico992]

Hello and thank you for the videos, I have a big problem with the mid hairs they are generated above... totally the opposite of the logical sense when I select exactly the same part as on the video...

[@JayKayV]

That was magic! :D

[@sikihinbibi1]

awesome

[@ziyuzhao5002]

like your tutorial and voice❤️

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thanks! :)

[@666FK]

Excelente tutorial, gracias por compartir

[@arnaudsimon3265]

thanks a lot !

[@TheHyrulianQueen]

nice tutorial!! :D do have a question though;; how would you do the falloff in the newest C4D, with the fields? I've been trying to find a way to do it but im really struggling aha!,, Also, very nice voice btw, makes the tutorials more enjoyable ~

[@salmahjumbe889]

I'm wondering the same thing :) Did you figure it out?

[@patrickibrahim1540]

for the newest versions of c4d u can add linear field to the bulge effect once added u go to the remapping tab scroll down to contour and change mode to curve, your spline graph will be visible.. to add more points to the spline u can right click on the graph, spline presets,custom, change number of points

[@JakeBuckley-i1c]

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[@namthanh8216]

Love you. Thanks a lot bro

[@sciencepower608]

Subscribed

[@carlosjj662]

Great tutorial, but it seems that I can't follow the same steps on a recent version without having issues, I had to discovered my own way to get there and the interest thing is we can reduce some steps and get a great result as well.

[@Aniani01]

EPIC.

[@altberg__]

damn how awesome is that? thanks alot. :)

[@kabalxizt5028]

thnk you for your time ur a geniuss

[@5_v]

Brilliant, as always! 10/10. Thank you sir. Could you make some stuff about xpresso in the future, please? It would be so interesting and helpful.

[@DanielDanielsson]

Thanks! There seems to be interest in Xpresso, so I'll try to add some in in the future!

[@williegonzalez9350]

You are a f©kn genius my friend!!! I love this tuto!!!

[@valentina.ferran]

Ace tutorial. Getting stuck at adding a linear field instead of falloff in R20. I can see the spline animated under Bulge/Linear Field/Remapping tab, but the connect object / Jelly does not move. Adding a jiggle does nothing. Any hints?

[@terrywatkins4397]

Dude. I mean DUDE!

[@ayylmao6113]

aight your version is wayyy different (and in some ways way better) then GSG's kudos!

[@nikomedia]

Really nice a swooshy tutorial ;)

[@DanielDanielsson]

I was unsure if I had enough swooshes or not...

[@nikomedia]

:D There can't be enough swooshes :)

[@RibeiroPico]

thanks Man!

[@윤명호-l4d]

I think you are jenius...

[@DanielDanielsson]

Cheers! XD kzbin.info/www/bejne/pojHlWmVj92LbsU

[@terencelo9731]

Hey dude its been a long time since you're video, I'm working in R22 right now and it can't for the life of me figure out how to get the animation working when you apply the jiggle deformer with the bludge!

[@valentina.ferran]

same, did you figure it out?

[@stickmanunivers5si9d]

amazing:)

[@stereovandals]

Awesome work Daniel - Great for a bit of inspiration - I'm also a fan of lathing the shit out of things. #lathe4lyfe.

[@DanielDanielsson]

What's you opinion on Lofts tho?

[@stereovandals]

Lofts are for drunks, hobo's and the disenfranchised youth of America.

[@DanielDanielsson]

Damn... Harsh.

[@kevinstuart6921]

If patreon would help you to make more videos I am ready to help there ! We need more creations from you !

[@kuperperdavid2099]

Can you re-make this tutorial or share this scene with R20 ? Please ! I do it in R20 but it's not working .

[@-vega-]

Don't know if this is still a burning question but I tried it in R23 and at first it wasn't working for me either. The Connection obj was not doing anything. What fixed it for me was to throw the Lathe in a Null object first, from then on it worked just fine.

[@staler75]

Thank you so much for these tutorials Daniel! i struggle with 1 thing on this tutorial, hope you or anyone can help me on this. problem is when i try to animate the jellyfish along the spline and set the keyframes it doen't sync right. the swooshes are there, movement too but it doesn't look right. it swoosh and move at first like it should but later on the spline it move and swoosh so totally out of sync or how do you call it. again thank you so much for these great tutorials, this is my first i follow, but i love how you explain it, it's a joy to follow it :)

[@staler75]

i got it! my framerate is set to 30, somehow lowering the framerate didn't work so i had to adjust the timing for the keyframes to match the 30 framerate so instead of 50 steps i had to do 60. beginners mistake i guess hahaha

[@ziadmarei5812]

daniel can you please help me, when i select the spline and click on lathe, a lathe layer appears but nothing happens in the perspective view, i don't see any 3d object.

[@carl2072]

Trying to follow this on r25 and this shit has all changed. Added the linear field but not getting anywhere near this

[@kuperperdavid2099]

nice ! But please tell me why you have to add it to connect + correcttion instead just use correction ?

[@stexiati1]

I tried to create a looping animation, but I couldn't get the first and last positions to be the same. I should somehow bake the animation and replace the last keyframe with the first one

[@DanielDanielsson]

If you bake it you might be able to loop it using Motion Clips. It lets you fade between between animations like an opacity slider. Been a while since I used it, but I think this tutorial is the one I used last time: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZukhp2ibqt8i8U

[@turnerrosen979]

HI Daniel, great tutorial ! Quick question- I am stuck (I have R22) and am having an issue with the "Bulge" section. For the fall off I can't change the time remapping in the way you did it! Could you help me plzz? :)

[@kristincobos]

I had this issue too and was messing around. This is what worked for me. Under bulge/falloff tab, you add a linear field. once you add he linear field you'll see a remapping tab, scroll all the way down to contour, open that up and that is where the spline grid is. you must set contour mode to curve. my animation speed was set to frames so i divided my total frames evenly, then messed around with those numbers to find a continuous loop that worked. The other issue I had was my obj was much smaller than the container/box (i don't know the technical word) when i added jiggle. so i couldn't see it and that was giving me trouble. i hope that addresses the problems you were having

[@valentina.ferran]

@@kristincobos Same issue here, added a Field, I can see the spline animating under the remapping tab, but my Jellyfish/Connect obj does not move at all. Adding a Jiggle does nothing. Any idea what can be wrong?

[@peterbrandt7911]

Aged well, still an awesome tutorial!

[@steffanocornejo6129]

How do you do the bulge effector by chance? Would u know how? I'm on cinema 4D r25 and I don't have a falloff optiob

[@peterbrandt7911]

@@steffanocornejo6129 I'm on r23 still and the falloff tab is right there. Sorry to disappoint.

[@steffanocornejo6129]

@@peterbrandt7911 damn :(

[@DaylX]

@@steffanocornejo6129 Go to your field > Remapping > Contour > Contour mode : curve / Set spline animation speed to whatever number of frame u want to loop

[@steffanocornejo6129]

@@DaylX ya I figured out. Irritated me a bit lol

[@catherinewoodhouse8703]

Such a good tutorial but the music and how fast you go makes me struggle! slow down for the noobs!

[@DanielDanielsson]

Stick around and you won't be a noob for long!

[@criskross4422]

I love this tuotirial! It's very useful and clear. I'm doing this tutorial but actually i'm not that able in Cinema 4D; i have a little problem with the friction object: i can't find it! I'm using Cinema 4D Studio R18, maybe the friction is part of a plugin?

[@DanielDanielsson]

I might be a bit late now, but it should be up under Simulate --> Particles. :)

[@StrobeFireStudios]

As an Englishman, I find your accent/voice really appealing. Where are you from? I feel like you're English and Swedish or something!

[@tarekmustapha5673]

The connect object step at 2:25 doesn't show the geometry for me after turning off the lathe :( Any advice?

[@MrGintsu]

Just what I needed for a project! Tho, I am having some trouble scaling it smaller without the model going crazy. Any tips how to do it?

[@DanielDanielsson]

Could be the jiggle? In which case, make sure you scale it down on the first frame. Otherwise if you've got polygons selected and are scaling those down, the correction objects could misbehave. So make sure you're scaling the Object and not the geometry. Maybe add your full Jelly to a null, and scale the null down?

[@ilariamast]

Your tutorials are fantastic! I wonder how to learn this program properly. I've been using it for 1 year and a half and still don't understand the logic behind some tools. Where did you learn everything?

[@DanielDanielsson]

I probably learned most of it the way you're learning now, watching tutorials, reading through forums, and of course the C4D Documentation is immensely helpful. Then after a while you kind of pick up momentum and begin to understand the system behind the tools, so you can figure out most things on your own.

[@Ironhide526]

Hi there !! Can you explain me, for what exactly we need Connect object ??

[@DanielDanielsson]

It's basically a way to turn a parametric object editable, so you can use some more advanced deformers and things on it that otherwise often won't work. The Correction Deformer at 02:38 for example needs to be a child of geometry to work, so you can't put it as a child of the Lathe or in a Null with it, but you can have it as a child of the Connect Object with the Lathe as the object reference.

[@istemihanoktay]

Thanks for the question and the answer. I had this same question that made me read through all these comments in order to find the answer. It would have been nice if you’d briefly explained that in the tutorial. Thank you for this awesome tutorial!