Unplugged 21: Paul Babb & Cinema 4D

Motionworks' Unplugged 21 features an interview with Paul Babb, CEO of Maxon USA:

"Paul Babb is the popular and charismatic CEO of Maxon USA. In this Cinema 4D–focused episode of Unplugged we talk about Paul’s early days [& bits on Electric Image], including a time in film and on the stage; then dive head–first into Cinema 4D and MoGraph and what makes it just the hottest 3D software out there right now."

Tutorial Gap Tuesday

Since it's Topher Welsh's job to fill the gaps, here's his latest collection of AE and 3D tutorials: Monday Madness Roundup.

Items not mentioned here include (but are not limited to): Max After's Particular Bounce (pictured) and Topher's Tutorial Roundup: 52 Excellent Cinema 4D tutorials. See also AEP's cribbed roundup, Cinema 4D training resources.

Cinema 4D training resources

Someone recently asked about sources for good tutorials on Cinema 4D, a 3D app that can work closely with After Effects. I invested into Electric Image in the olden days, but went off in other directions so I only know what I gather from trusted sources. Here's a few:

• Cinema 4D Training Resources, a list by Motionworks.
• Five Best Cinema 4D Training Sites, from Grayscale Gorilla.
• Ko's Maruyama C4D sidebar links
• Lesser-known C4D tutorial sites, a short list by Leah Raeder.
• many have recommended Cineversity.
• and I were doing C4D I'd try to register into FxPhd., where Tim Clapham of Motionworks training and the Hypa.tv blog does AE/C4D crosstraining.
  

Update: see the reviews of the recent Motionworks training videos Making It Look Great 6 -- by Eran Stern, Making It Look Great 6 Short Review, and by Trish Meyer, MILG6: Training for Cinema 4D and After Effects is “Cool Stuff” Indeed!

Update 2: see also Cinema 4D Tutorial Website Roundup by JMDesign.

Update 3: Topher Welsh posted a Tutorial Roundup: 52 Excellent Cinema 4D tutorials.

AE to C4D: another approach

from Motionographer:
"Some of you may be familiar with Paul Tuersley’s excellent scripts allowing for the importation of cameras and other objects from After Effects into Cinema 4D. But sometimes your workflow calls for a different approach. Eric Henry has developed a clever process for importing the animation data of objects and/or cameras into Cinema 4D from After Effects."
...continue at AE to C4D: A new (more comprehensive) solution.

Free script for getting from AE to Cinema 4D

As noted by Toolfarm and General Specialist, Paul Tursley posted a new script for transferring data from AE to Cinema 4D over at AEnhancers.com, along with an explanation of the script's group-enabled development:

"It's taken a while, but I've finally posted an update to the AEtoC4D scripts...This version exports normal AE cameras, nulls to show the position of other layers, the comp frame rate, duration and start frame. It exports the position of any 2D/3D layer, so you can export things like motion track or motion sketch data too."