Create a new Material within Cinema 4D.

Double click on the material to open it in the Material Editor.

You can change this setting on any texture preview, but we’ll start within Color.

Click on the drop down menu next to Texture and select Noise.

Now double click on the texture to edit it’s details.

Once you have the details pulled up, right click in the texture preview window, and select Animate. If you right click again, you will see it has a check mark to indicate it’s on.

Obviously you’re not going to see anything happen once it’s selected until you animate your texture. For the sake of the tutorial we will keep it simple, but once you keyframe any attribute in the texture details you will see it animate on the preview. For now we will change the Animation Speed of our Noise.

Change the Animation Speed to 1 to get started and watch your texture move!

Here is a little gif so you can see it working. Notice that I changed the Loop Period to 2 for the gif example.

A couple things to keep in mind. You can also activate Animate on the Material Preview (the sphere with the texture applied to it to the left of the animated noise) so you can see all attributes animating together. If you like to use Layers, like me, with your textures then expect a little slower rendering. However, it’s still the best way to preview the texture before you render.

If you want to have a lot of fun with it, activate Animate on the Material Preview and start playing with Displacement and Sub-Poly Displacement. You’ll be able to see how abstract objects will animate before you even worry about rendering. Enjoy!

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1. That ‘Low-Poly’ Effect in Cinema 4D

There are a lot of tricks to this one. Remember that you can use a Mograph effector as a deformer and switch between point, polygon, and object modes. When you’re working with spheres don’t forget to uncheck render perfect. If you need some inspiration check out Timothy Reynolds’ Dribble page, he does all of his work manually and the textures and lighting really bring the illustrations home. Keep in mind the information on this blog will only take you so far. Make it yours, make it sexy.

2. Create a Tornado in Cinema 4D

This one is just really fun, and opens up a lot of possibilities for all around awesomeness in Mograph. Besides, who doesn’t love bright lights, lazerz, and illuminating frisbees that come back to you like a boomerang?! AM I RIGHT?! PEW PEW!

3. Rigging The Box Part One

So you’ve never rigged anything before? It can be an incredibly daunting and confusing task. We keep it simple with The Box. A quick rundown of adding joints, creating a joint chain, weighting the joints, and finally setting up Xpresso sliders to control the opening and closing of The Box. Brew a cup, take a break, and check out how to get a few rigging basics in the books.

Ever wish you had just a little extra screen space? Well I can’t do anything magical about that so deal. I can, however, offer a little advice on how to use that screen space a little wiser. By placing your mouse in any window in Cinema 4D and pressing Control+Tab you can blow that window up to full screen, giving you a wonderful and glorious view of whatever it is you are working on. The two places I use this repeatedly are in the Viewport when modeling, and the Timeline Manager when animating. As an added bonus, once you have your keyboard shortcuts down, you don’t need any drop downs or tool bars to work at a blazing fast pace with a full screen view of your project. Enjoy!