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Thing #14/365

So this all started with trying to make a honeycomb pattern in Cinema by a lot of wrong ways. As it turns out, you need to simply reduce a cylinder to 6 segments and BAM, hexagonal, parametric column. So then I needed to clone them, and arranged them as close to a pattern as possible, which was simple. The problem (and subsequent time-sink) began when I decided I really wanted to have them randomly different heights to make an interesting composition. That took quite a long time and a lot of trial and error. The answer ended up being changing the 'multiple objects' factor in the random effector to x-20 or x*2 or whatever to make it change all the columns individually, which it previously refused to do. So yeah, that was cool. I threw the daylight rig on there and it started to look like an abandoned alien city or something so I tossed my little starship model in there. I like it, but I want it to be dirtier. 

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365 Things Matthew Smith 365 Things Matthew Smith

Thing #10/365

So I've been needing to learn how to model for a while now and there are several modules of Cinema 4D I've yet to adequately learn. One of those big ones is the Loft Nurb. In a stroke of serendipity Nick over at greyscalegorilla recently made an excellent tutorial overviewing this project using loft nurbs and intermediate modeling. Anyhow I basically followed the tut through word for word to make sure I didn't mess up too much. I'm quite happy with the result and I'm excited to see what else can be made this way. Tutorial here: http://bit.ly/UBDQ7B

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