Hasta La Motion!

New lights, objects, presets, and built-in support for multiple third-party renderers. This is the all-new Light Kit Pro 3.

We are thrilled to announce Light Kit Pro 3, the biggest upgrade we’ve ever built. Completely re-engineered and reimagined, this is the tool you’ve been waiting for. Have complete control over your lighting, instantly add pre-lit studios, and switch between major renderers.

It would not be an understatement to say that Light Kit Pro helped build this company. With the embrace of the original plugin, we’ve been able to grow and produce more tools and training for you, and you have all helped establish Greyscalegorilla as one of the best communities to learn, create, and share all things 3D and motion design.

That’s why we knew that this had to be our biggest and best plugin to date. So, we rebuilt the entire thing from the ground up.

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New Lights, Cycs, and Studios

Light Kit Pro 3 will introduce seven new light types, nine parametric cyc objects, and 120 studio presets. Scan or search the Light Kit Browser for the perfect lighting, or build and save your own studio from scratch.

Light Types:

• Softbox
• Umbrella
• Kino Flo
• LED Ring
• Ring
• Panel
• Ambient

Introducing Render Switch

One of the most exciting new features, Render Switch will give you true light parity between Physical, Standard, Arnold, Octane, and Redshift.

With just two clicks, you can render your scenes in any of these renders, and maintain all your lighting, geometry, and materials.

The goal was to save you as much time as possible, and it’s a feature I think we really nailed.

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MAXON’s Cinema 4D R20 is officially out. Are you already using R20? Here’s what you need to know.

The much-anticipated release 20 of Cinema 4D had users salivating over all the big new features, and now you can start experimenting with Fields, node-based materials, and much more!

Already downloaded R20 and have a few questions? Here’s what you need to know. 

What you need to know about R20

Cinema 4D R20 is available now from Maxon. As in the past, multiple versions are available.

• Cinema 4D Studio R20 – $3,695 New | $995 Upgrade
• Cinema 4D Visualize R20 – $2,295 New | $795 Upgrade
• Cinema 4D Broadcast R20 – $1,695 New | $595 Upgrade
• Cinema 4D Prime R20 – $995 New | $395 Upgrade

Multi-seat licenses are also available for studios, teams, and departments.

If you just installed R20, you may have already noticed that many things have changed. One of the biggest changes is the way that third-party plugins are installed. The newest release of Cinema 4D has a new core, meaning nearly every plugin must be rebuilt.

Third-Party Plugins

With this latest release, you will have to return to each of the vendors you purchased plugins for to get the latest updated version for R20.

For Greyscalegorilla plugins, we’ve been updating Your Products and Training section with the new R20 versions for Mac and PC. Go grab them now in your Greyscalegorilla account.

The following Greyscalegorilla Plugins are R20 compatible with the free updated download:

• City Kit
• GorillaCam
• HDRI Link
• HDRI Studio Rig
• Light Kit Pro 2
• Light Kit Pro 3
• TopCoat
• Transform

*We are actively working on an update to make Signal R20 compatible.

Here’s what you need to know about the third-party plugin support.

Will X-Particles be R20 Compatible?

Insydium, the makers of X-Particles, have announced that X-Particles 4 will be compatible with R20. The estimated launch date is November 1st. Early Access Members can start testing X-Particles 4 in the coming days.

You can read the full release form Insydium, LTD here.

Third-Party Rendering

Are you using a third-party render engine with C4D? Updates are starting to rollout, but not all are publicly available.

Redshift 2.6.21+ and Arnold C4DtoA 2.4.1.1 are now compatible with R20. Some betas of other engines are currently available for testers, like Octane.

Keep in mind, this is still a new release, so you may run into some issues on occasion while developers are still searching for and patching bugs.

If your career and livelihood depend on you working today, we’d advise you to keep using R19 and current stable plugins and render engines while things are fine tuned. You can always upgrade once all your necessary tools are stable in R20. 

Major New R20 Features

R20 introduces a ton of new features. So many, there’s no way we could count them all.

In fact, we even enlisted some help to teach you about Cinema 4D R20. Matthew O’Neill, also known as Mash, form 3D Fluff has joined the Greyscalegorilla team.

In his first GSG tutorial, Mash will show you the key new features in R20, including Volumes, Nodes, and CAD imports.

Mash also leads the primary training portion of the new Greyscalegorilla Guide to Cinema 4D R20. More on that down below.

Even More New Features in R20

In addition to the key features Mash covers, Chris Schmidt took a deep dive into R20 and covers as many new features as he can, especially the features that caught his attention. Dive into Fields, advanced modeling tools, and much more.

Node-Based Materials

Node-based materials and an entire new node work space was also introduced in R20. Chad Ashley shows you a lot of the impressive new features in this video.

Favorite New Features and Free R20 Scene Files

At Siggraph 2018, the team got together to present all of our favorite new features, and you can also download our free R20 scene files.

Siggraph Presentations:

• Greyscalegorilla’s Favorite Features + Scene Files
• AskGSG Live R20 Demo + Scene Files

Want the full list of all the new features? It’s a long one. You can read the whole list here.

Greyscalegorilla Guide to Cinema 4D R20

Are you busy with projects, and need a way to learn Cinema 4D R20 as quickly as possible? The new Greyscalegorilla Guide to Cinema 4D R20 includes over 12 hours of training. Learn from all four instructor above, as Nick, Chris, Chad, and Matthew all teach you about R2o.

Learn about all the new tools through a series of deep dives into Fields, Volumes, Nodes, and more. Then take everything you’ve learned and work through a series of project-based tutorials teaching you many practical ways to start using these new features in your everyday workflow.

Grab the training series before Friday 9/21/18 and save $100.

We have a ton of R20 tutorials and training coming your way. Stay tuned for more!

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Teenage Engineering is coming out with the OP-Z really soon!! I’ve been part of the beta testing phase this year. In this gig in Berlin, I’m using a generation 2 beta unit or something.. Gen 3? So if you think I’m struggling with the keys when playing, to my defence the beta units have been pretty stiff in the buttons. This has been addressed, and now, a few generations later, I’ve been told that it’s much much nicer to play on. Can’t wait to get the final unit in my hands!!!

Read about the OP-Z here:
https://teenage.engineering/products/op-z_preview

Links to mentions in the end of the video:
Machìna’s gig here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5SVR3w9wHI

Snippets of Andrew Huang’s gig in this video: https://youtu.be/FfGTYTXpd7g?t=6m3s

Peace!

Milk VFX recently delivered visual effects for the film Adrift, including several shots of a yacht at sea as it is caught in a devastating storm. The studio’s breakdown video reveals the extent to which they took plate photography and realised the ocean and storm effects with some fantastic CG and water sims.

For the latest 3D Artist magazine, I talked to Aardman’s David Sproxton and also dived into digital make-up with MPC, Mr. X, Outpost VFX, MASTERS FX and vfx artist Johnny Banta.