Cinema 4D and After Effects Tutorial - Creating 3D Isometric Animations

[@Panamations]

Even seven years after the making of this video was it helpfull! Thanks a lot

[@nadinec7585]

Thank you for showing how to rotate the scene in isometric view. I could not find how to do it, but the solution to rotate the null with all the elements is so simple!

[@eyedesyn]

Glad it helped!

[@sebastiandeerhead4564]

Another tutorial from EJ, hell yeah! Let me grab some popcorn

[@eyedesyn]

Enjoy! Don't get the popcorn stuck in your teeth!

[@kz0981]

You are a genius, EJ. Thank you for your tutorials, especially this one as I needed it today!

[@GymnoWithWaffles]

his teeths are brighter than my future ;_;

[@sebastiandeerhead4564]

lool

[@eyedesyn]

Your future is so bright you need shades! And those big oversized goofy ones at that! :)

[@nicobarbieri]

Thank you! Great tutorial! :D

[@eyedesyn]

very welcome! thanks for watching!

[@cortjezter]

dig the "samurai" kanji flag in the background. great work on the tutorial as usual!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks, man! Glad you enjoyed the tutorial! Appreciate you watching!

[@e11world]

Very good tutorial man. Thank you so much!

[@eyedesyn]

Much appreciated, Eddie! Thanks for watching!

[@mudamudisain]

thanks for the tutorial

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@pixelasm]

well done, also because you discussed problems and workarrounds when importing this to #AfterEffects, which I think is important to know for beginners.

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks! For sure, I always struggled with this when I started wanting to bring in Isometric animations from AE to C4D and realized the issues.

[@zahrah4477]

tnx u save me 😂 I needed to know it too much fast and u explain it simply!

[@armaganvideos]

I don't get why this channel is still under 40.000 subs, you should get way more positive feedback for these awesome tutorials. Greetings fellow colleague, ArmaganVideos.

[@eyedesyn]

Really appreciate the kind comment, I can't complain about the incredible support I currently get! This community is awesome and hope to keep growing!

[@oojpatchoo]

Grab the Art Smart plugin from cineversity (its free). You can import .ai files without down saving to v8. Nice looking work!

[@eyedesyn]

Nice shout out! Love using ArtSmart!!!

[@sambrown2330]

nice. had a nightmare figuring out the fake isometric camera in a project earlier in the year. could have done with this tutorial! haha

[@eyedesyn]

Well now ya know, right? Next time will be way easier! :)

[@mattcorbin2112]

Ha me too! that was super helpful!! thanks!

[@adrianthomas7592]

How would I achieve the true isometric angle and view with the perspective camera? I'm trying to composite illustrations that are at a precise isometric angle.

[@eyedesyn]

crank up the perspective view focal length and sensor size to 200/200 or so...I cover this in the tutorial at 6:15

[@hvaranhvaran]

Shading/texturing was done with sketch and toon?

[@eyedesyn]

Indeed!

[@adarigirishkumar6567]

I am a complete starter to c4d , have basic knowledge of illustrator and I want to learn how the word ISO is placed in the maze

[@eyedesyn]

it's simple a spline that i made using the pen tool, as you would in illustrator. i recommmend you check out my beginner series first! www.eyedesyn.com/cinema4d-lite

[@risallaw]

Hi EJ, how to create a material like yours? If you already create a tutorial, please point me where can I learn... Thank you... :)

[@eyedesyn]

This was just a basic material with a bit of Luminance enabled!

[@globaltesoro]

is there a way to import without using illustrator? I have after effects and c4d but not illustrator. thank you

[@eyedesyn]

Good question, I'm not sure if there is. Youd need to prepare the vector maze element first so for this workflow you'd need Illustrator. Not familiar with other softwares that do something similar.

[@globaltesoro]

ok, thank you

[@Crimsonpattyletsplay]

you can use paths from photoshop then make them into splines and exude them. Not as easy but its a solution.

[@globaltesoro]

cool. I'll just do that then. Thank you!

[@sicfxmusic]

Download Illustrator trail

[@peter.7717]

I see you're working on a mac. Do you think it is a good idea to buy a macbook for working in cinema? Or a notebook with windows? im struggling with this question right now :D

[@eyedesyn]

Depends! If you're doing to be doing a lot of more 2D compositions in C4D, you don't need a lot of processing power. But if you want to go more 3D, I'd err towards a PC!

[@rachelheying]

how do i make the material like this, different color for top and sides????

[@eyedesyn]

Just a simple Color and Luminance material with some Ambient Occlusion turned on.

[@rockdfunk]

also have the same question, was not able to figure it out from your short description. Love all your tuts btw!

[@fgarciaish]

Also, if you're working directly in After Effects... I extruded some shape layers, for example, once I changed the "renderer" settings in the comp settings to Cinema4d. The shape's FILL COLOR controls the "top", and the the STROKE COLOR controls the sides (keep stroke width low, like 0.1). An ambient light and some parallel lights will also help give different shadings to the sides.

[@laforni5489]

@@eyedesyn sorry for this question, did you teach this in some video? Also great tutorial as always ❤️

[@young65086]

focal 200 / h 35 / p -35

[@imcool00011]

How about people who do not have illustrator?

[@eyedesyn]

Not sure, there are different file formats you can save out of other than AI I believe, but you could always just make your own splines inside of C4D...a lot more work but I'm not aware of any Maze Generators for C4D

[@11305205219]

GTG learn it

[@eyedesyn]

get it!

[@mrGcrinkles]

awe man, Mazegenerator.net appears to be down :(

[@AmjadAbboud]

not for me

[@BoboMedia007]

He said "Linky-poo" lol

[@eyedesyn]

Sometimes weird words come out of my mouth, can't help it! :)

[@begummm11]

I have been thinking why the writting says "150" for 4 minutes.. Then i realised it's saying "ISO" 😂🤣

[@eyedesyn]

Haha ISO for ISOMETRIC! :)

[@jonald2010]

Oh LUT's...