We have an awesome new freebie for you today! This is created by Alessandro Boncio, and it’s a 15 pack of free Arnold Render + Cinema 4D materials. It’s a candy pack and it has chocolate materials and gummy bear materials. Super realistic, finely detailed and overwhelmingly delicious; just in time for the holiday season!...Read More

The results are in from our internal judges and we have our top 5 entries! The winning entry is: #1: instagram.com/maxim.romantsov   #2: instagram.com/marcinflisikowski   #3: instagram.com/lmqr_t   #4: instagram.com/andrew_3d_art   #5: instagram.com/renderrealm Congrats to all of the winners. We received SO many incredible entries! Feel free to go to instagram.com/explore/tags/pixellabvfx to see all of...Read More

I’m thrilled to interview Topher, who was the winner of our 2020 VDB Contest with his entry titled Astronauts’ Day Off (Orcas Sighting)   Introduce yourself to us: where do you come from, what’s your specialty and where do you work? Hey hey, thx for having me. I go online by Topher.exe, but everyone calls...Read More

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to make a really interesting paint peeling effect. We’ll use vertex maps, cloth, wind and gravity forces to create a nice reveal effect. Enjoy!Read More

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create 3D organic line/tendrils which dance to a music track. We’ll be doing this in Cinema 4D and I’ll go over tons of features: field forces, matrix object, particle emitters, mograph sound effector, volume builder, volume mesher and much more. I hope you find some new techniques...Read More

I have a absolutely gorgeous free model for you today. This is a Mayan Relic statue created by Romain Vaysse. Romain is a motion designer based out of France and you can check out his work here: www.behance.net/romainvaysse Huge thanks to Romain for letting us share this epic model! This download includes a .fbx, a...Read More

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use soft body dynamics on your splines to create some great organic rope animations. Huge shout out to Alessandro Boncio for his help on this!Read More

I have an awesome free 3D model today. It’s a Cinema 4D water cooler model! (It’s texture for Octane, fyi). This is modeled by the talented Pavel Zosim. Pavel is a designer who lives in Moldova. He has over 12 years of experience working with Houdini, C4D and AE. Make sure to check him out...Read More

  A new dawn has come for us. No longer do we have to save our Illustrator files for V8 and then import splines and add them individually to extrude nurbs and sweeps and then position everything in a messy hierarchy and colorize them. I’ve wasted countless hours of my life doing this! Now, with...Read More

In this C4D tutorial I’ll show you how to use mograph to create a holographic transition. You could also use this to create a sci-fi style HUD element. Super cool technique. I hope you find it useful!Read More