10 C4D Hacks Every Motion Designer Needs to Know

[@CodingWithLewis]

EJ is truly the 🐐. Thanks for this!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for the kind words Lewis! And like a goat, I also have a grey beard

[@imtaha964]

i started Cinema 4D with your course. thank u. u r amazing❤❤❤

[@eyedesyn]

Yassss! So glad to hear it!

[@manuelmatheu]

EJ, you have my like just for the Creative COW cameo 🐄

[@eyedesyn]

Hahaha glad you enjoyed that!

[@mpbMKE]

That joke made me feel older than my chronic lower back pain. 😂

[@JonathanWinbush]

Good stuff 🤙🏿🤙🏿

[@eyedesyn]

What up what up!

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@eyedesyn 🤙🏿🤙🏿😁😁

[@jfd4706]

Winbush, Jake and EJ the goats

[@JonathanWinbush]

@ Jake from StateFarm?

[@jfd4706]

@ Jake Bartlett from Jake in Motion. What up what up!

[@jonb2897]

That color display node tip was mind-blowing. Saved me a lot of time! thanks

[@sweetboy.motion]

Finally! I was sick of Blender

[@eyedesyn]

But its free???

[@pabstacodewabs]

Do you guys really need to hate Blender to love C4D?? It's software and both are as capable. Ah, wait, it's Sweet Boy Motion trolling EJ back!! Yess

[@sweetboy.motion]

@@pabstacodewabs Hey guy, I'm teaching the Blender course 🤣 It's all friendly here

[@eyedesyn]

@@pabstacodewabs Hahaha we kid because we love

[@markpease1785]

Someone showed me that you can change the color space of texture maps in the RS Asset Manager by using the list. It lets you change lots of texture map color spaces all at once. This helps speed up the process since normally you have to select each texture node separately and then go to the drop down menu and find sRGB or RAW. Thanks for an amazing and concise list of tips!!

[@laeternaml]

Or Maxon should provide a shortcut instead of the drop down sub menus.

[@LD10000]

Thanks, I never knew about the last tip, color space on textures...

[@eyedesyn]

Neither did I for far too long haha

[@ghsnyc]

Been using C4D for over 20 years and some of these, I didn't know about

[@stranavfx]

Thank you very much!!!

[@vladan.Poison]

EJ your tip for selection object could use tip1 to access it without a menu 😊

[@dmellis]

The selection object is great. I use it about 5 times a year when things get complicated but it helped me out quite a bit yesterday.

[@videomissionary]

yep, killer tips! Thanks EJ

[@eyedesyn]

Glad you found them useful! Appreciate you watchin!

[@ryanhoog8678]

And if you watch this on 2x, you’ll learn even FASTER! Thanks EJ. Always love your videos.

[@GerryRufman1]

Long press toggling between 1x and 2x even better

[@woosung__k]

EJ thank you for all the tips!! Always the best!!!

[@MRasey22]

Good stuff as always

[@yanxir1674]

very powerful tips!! thank you so much!

[@MrPada143]

LOL, this was awesome to watch-funny and informative. I miss your SOM classes!

[@misq7097]

I'm telling you, I laughed at the dope sheet joke! For so long I would place in displacements and normals and not get the results, fantastic tips in this one!

[@SuperFreshTV_]

you're gonna need more gobo. love the gobo.

[@eyedesyn]

Put a gobo on it!

[@motiondesignberlin10243]

Great workflow hacks - thanks!

[@sharonpalkowetz]

Good one, EJ!

[@CodyNitcher]

Deep cut with that GI Joe meme

[@eyedesyn]

Glad you appreciated that haha

[@bharat5194]

Very useful

[@eyedesyn]

Awesome to hear that! Thanks for watching!

[@MatthewHinmanTexas]

Creative COW!

[@eyedesyn]

Yeaaaaaaah the OG!!!

[@mr.pinouxinc4293]

More EJ wisdom 🎉😊

[@eyedesyn]

❤❤❤❤

[@ItsNewFlava]

Number 6 🙏

[@eyedesyn]

Nice! glad to hear one of them resonated!

[@chalvlad]

More Tips , also for octane render🥰

[@AndiBlair1492]

DAAAAAANG. Thanks EJ. #C4D #cinema4D

[@aniketkesarkar2064]

WOW 🔥

[@ibelievestudio1]

Thank You

[@JoniKukkohovi]

Good stuff as always. Is the unversal color node applicable in Octane?

[@eyedesyn]

Thnks Joni! I'm not sure but you can definitely check to see if Octane also has that option in its texture nodes to change color space

[@valb7305]

Hey EJ, I started learning C4D with your course last year, and it's absolutely amazing! I’m now using it every week at work. Quick question: Sometimes, I have a ton of objects in my scene, and I hide some by clicking the small dots to turn them red. Later, when I want to unhide them, I struggle to find them in my object list. Would using layers be a better approach in this case? Do you have a tip to display only "red dots object"? Thanks in advance for any tips!

[@emadameri9570]

The Ctrl/Command + C thing works in Octane too if anyone's wondering.

[@eyedesyn]

Good call, Emad!

[@goldmananimation]

Thanks for the tips EJ! @5:19 The universal color node is great--but when inside a symmetry object, the custom display color is defeated. Any workarounds? Thx!

[@mpbMKE]

I think you lost your color correction mid-video. 😅 Great tips, EJ! I definitely could have used the animation bookmarks on the project I just delivered. It was heavy CAD, no time/budget to simplify the models, so even segregating objects to layers couldn't save my viewport speed. It was so heavy, I had to use the laptop controls to navigate the dope sheet/f-curve, lol. Isolating some of those tracks would have saved a hefty amount of frustration trying to bounce between the tracks I was manipulating. One note on bucket size: I default to 512, too, because I also have twin 3090s, but some AOVs, like Cryptomattes, will still bust you back down to 64. And the last thing on render speed, always double-check you're closing any other windows or programs that might be gobbling up precious VRAM. It might even be a good idea to do a system reboot just to clear it out prior to a big render where you'll be walking away from the workstation.

[@TheThebeep]

Nice tips. I have a one free tip for you too - Use Octane ;)

[@miklassic]

Awww, I like you too

[@eyedesyn]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@GoliZeka]

''Logo is too big'' is some kind of a unicorn, right? :D

[@rihardsseso]

tip 2 osom

[@eyedesyn]

[@doziefranklin2490]

Gobo Presets and HDRI tip

[@eyefisher]

Should I use sRGB or Raw for Normal Maps?

[@laeternaml]

RAW

[@احمدعبدالمنعم-ح5ت]

Hello my friend, I have an important question for me. When I create a CGI project and finish tracking the camera, and when simulating the dynamics, I use a large-sized model, such as a box or a shoe, but the simulation process will not be completely accurate, and I do not know what the solution is to this problem. I change many settings, but in the end it will not work.

[@kevincompaney1503]

the middle click?!?! 🤯

[@mikkelmelby]

freeze tessellation and geoemtry omg

[@samilazhar8197]

11:41 😂😂😂

[@muzammilhalimov]

8:06, damn dude Comparing RS in C4D with Blenders Eevee? that's wild and very far to even compare....

[@laeternaml]

Yes and he says it when the viewport is lagging as hell at 2 FPS. Eevee is real time lol.

[@Motions_AP]

About the video thumbnail: It would be “Eau de…” meaning “water of”, not “Ode A”. If you’re trying to say an “ode to” in French, you would need to add an accent to the ‘a’ “Ode à” and make it lower case as the French don’t capitalize titles the way North America and the UK does.

[@maotao2441]

EJ always makes me harder to leave C4D, even I'm using Blender more now

[@laeternaml]

Assuming that 99.99% of the time we have to set the color profile to sRGB or RAW, why doesn't Maxon provide us with a shortcut for those settings? Instead of forcing us to browse in a very useless and time consuming drop down menu and sub menu? I will never get it.

[@95500curtis]

any tips for someone who want to start moton design in 2025