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Friends, I let you know about Plans for May tomorrow

Hi Friends,

the title says it all. I think, I will invite a suprise guest artist for May in addition to my training, but I´ll share plans tomorrow with you. I will make sure...

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Let´s flood it!

Friends,

I´m very sorry, I was too busy this weekend and couldnt deliver the next lesson. But I share this somewhere in the beginning of the coming week! I´ll make sure you get good content...

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Simulation Fun with LiquiGen and Cinema 4D: Part01

Hi Friends,

I decided to go with a combination of LiquiGen + Cinema 4D first (instead of Houdini + C4D), because this way, we can make way faster iterations of our s...

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LiquiGen + C4D Fluid Parcours, this Week.

Hi Friends,

I played with fun little obstacles/rivers/dams/parcours in combination with fluid simulations this week. I have a Houdini and a LiquiGen workflow for you, but bec...

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Houdini/LiquiGen + Cinema 4D Rivers

Friends,

(Maybe click heart-button if this idea sounds interesting).

I´m still in the middle of learning some new techniques, mostly on houdini-courses, entagma and ni...

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Future Direction of 3DBonfire + Houdini especially for C4D-Artists/3D-Generalists

Hi Friends,

I thought a bit about my next plans as a freelance 3d artist and what feels to be the right next step as a youtube/patreon/instagram tutorial-guy/mentor;-).

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One of my Flag Simulation Files

Friends,

this is one of my final simulation files. You can just let the scene cache for maybe 15-30 minutes -depending on your system- and you will have a nice simulation to play with.

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Cinema 4D 2025.2 Advanced Cloth Simulations: The Ultimate Flag

Friends,

I decided to share a lil´bit of knowledge for free on my YouTube channel today. But just be sure, I´m also working on new patreon-exclusive content View Post

40 Cloth Elements Starting File

Friends,

this is a free starting file with 40 pre-made cloth shapes, which can help you to build a very complex looking fun cloth simulation / flag. It´s meant to be use...

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19 nicely-organized Collections for You

Hi Friends,

I did a bit of housekeeping/clean-up and organized some neat lil´collections for you.

This will help you to get a better access to tutorial series and give you an o...

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New Cloth Flag Tutorial soon. And what about Liquids?

Friends,

Because this is such a fun topic, I wanted to create a new updated version of a flag, simulated with C4D´s cloth engine. Even with the lowest accuracy settings, the simulation was f...

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Starting with "Patreon Collections": Houdini Viscous Fluid Smear with Guest Artist Welsing3D

Friends,

You now have easy access to the full 2 hours+ tutorial mini series by guest artist Welsing3D via the ...

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Houdini Viscous Fluid Smear: Part 04 Bubbles

Friends,

My guest artist Welsing3D just finished his tutorial mini-series, where he teaches us some b...

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Cinema 4D 2025.2 Ballons Projectfile

Friends,

that´s one of my simulation files, But definitely play with different setups especially for the forces. My combination might not be exactly the best and you can achieve more interes...

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Cinema 4D 2025.2 Balloons

Hi Friends,

I just wanted to have some good ol´ balloon simulation fun with you guys! 

There should be some small improvements with the simulation engine for...

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Cinema 4D 2025.2 + Redshift 2025.4 New OpenPBR Material / Shader

Friends,

I just checked the new OpenPBR Material in Redshift 2025.4 version for you.

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Become a Cinema 4D Cloth Expert: Part03 (Final Part)

Hi Friends,

in this lesson I share two shader and light setups to show you how to make your cloth simulations look really beautiful! Simple stuff, but these cloth simula...

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Cinema 4D 2025.2 Update: New Particles Controls and finally Liquids?!

Friends,

I just created a short video about the new enhanced particle control features and particle distribution modes.

And yes, I know: It feels a bit like an average ...

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Houdini Viscous Fluid Smear: Part 03 Simulation and Meshing

Friends,

we are getting close to the finish line with our little houdini detour into viscous fluid smears!

This 4 parts course is included in your Knights membershi...

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Maxon´s Spring Release 2025

Friends,

Maxon just released their Spring Release Video on Youtube and if you jump to 4:50 your enter...

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Teaser for April: Artdirecting Softbodies with Cinema 4D

Friends,

In addition to going for more complex compositions with the cloth module, I also wanted to create more rich/versatile/complex balloon/softbody compositions.

Th...

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Become a Cinema 4D Cloth Expert: Part 02

Friends,

let´s make our cloth simulation look ultra-complex! I know, I know: It´s a simple technique/workflow but... if you you do it right, you just get amazing resul...

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Become a Cinema 4D Cloth Expert: Part01

Friends,

Common! Let´s just a good time together! Yes, the technique might be simple but it would be absolutely regrettable if we wouldn´t use our well-trained eyes and artistic sensitivit...

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Become a Cinema 4D Cloth Expert: Intro

Friends,

I´ll be honest: I just wanted to have some fun and a good C4D time, that´s why I dived back into the powerful cloth-module! I´m still impressed how easy and fun i...

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Houdini Viscous Fluid Smear: Project File

Friends,

this is the project file with the complete setup from Welsing3D , but of cours...

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Houdini Viscous Fluid Smear: Part 02 Brush and Strokes

Friends,

Our Guest Artist Welsing3D  delivers part02 of his houdini beginners course already! View Post

This will be so much Fun! Complex Cloth Simulation Tutorial this Weekend

Hi Friends,

Sorry if I´m teasing a little bit too much, but I´m working on my new cloth lesson for you for this weekend and... it´s honestly just endless fun!

I move the camera arou...

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Houdini Viscous Fluid Smear: Part 01 Basics with Guest Artist Welsing3D

Friends,

I´m super excited about the first houdini tutorial mini series here on my patreon, especially for true Houdini Beginners like me! Let´s ...

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Friends, I want us to go Super-Complex with Cloth this Week

Hi Friends,

Besides the upcoming detour into viscous fluids with houdini for beginners by the end of the week, I want you and me to...

...explore some more...

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Just look how this Shader is getting smeared!

One more teaser for the upcoming lessons! Looks like we will push this viscous brushstroke technique really far with things like...bubbles in the liquid and a realistic smearing o...

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