Host: Chris Schmidt
Topics tackled:
Adding Overshooting to Anything (Sheer Deformer in this case)
00:01:50 Can we drive an overshoot effect onto a Sheer Deformer? Yes we can! Can we bake it out? Also yes!
Balancing Objects on Each Other (Faking it, then less of a fak...
2020-02-28 19:23:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Host: Chris Schmidt
Topics tackled:
Support Chris through Patreon: Get access to bonus streams and scene files. https://www.patreon.com/RocketLasso
Intro with special guest Amador Valenzuela from Black Book S...
2020-02-21 23:57:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Host: Chris Schmidt
Topics tackled:
Proper Structure for Dynamic Splines
00:00:50 Spline Dynamics can be pretty picky to make work. Last week during the Patreon bonus stream we tested all the limitations of this process, this was a perfect chance to test it...
2020-02-14 22:16:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Host: Chris Schmidt & Jake Allen
Topics tackled:
Intro with special guest Jake Allen of Sarofsky!
00:00:10 Check out his work here! iamjakeallen.com
www.instagram.com/jakemadeathing
2020-02-07 00:48:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Jake Allan of Chicago's Sarofsky will be joining me live on Rocket Lasso Live Wed!
Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/rocketlasso
Youtube Stream : https://youtu.be/QeO11PvfMKs<...
ROCKET LASSO LIVE
Season 2 - Episode 4
Host: Chris Schmidt
Topics tackled:
Morphing A Lathe and Passing Through a Noise Based Material
00:02:42 Apparently splines can not be morphed, but we used several Fields to slice down the object, and create a simple material that...
2020-01-30 18:35:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Host: Chris Schmidt & Krzys Pianko
Topics tackled:
Intro of Special Guest Krzys Pianko!
00:00:13 Check out his work here! www.piankocreative.com
Noodle-ly Ribbons
00:04:56 Another amazing Zachary Darren Corzine animation! We u...
2020-01-24 18:05:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Host: Chris Schmidt
Topics tackled:
Getting SEXY Wrinkles with Softbodies
00:01:15 Make some nice breakthroughs on using Softbodies to get some nice wrinkles and bunching up of cloth. It think there might be a proper tutorial in this!
"FUTURE" 2020-01-16 23:52:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I will be live streaming the (normally) Patreon only show OFF THE RECORD today at 2PM CST (8PM GMT) only on YOUTUBE only here: https://youtu.be/6gh087H1S3U
Since it's the first episode of the season, I'm leaving it public. This happened accidentally fi...
2020-01-16 17:24:25 +0000 UTC View Post
00:37:13 Three different methods to create streaks behind a character moving quickly. Hair, Tracer, and a manual rig!
Topics tackled:
Several Shell Layers
00:01:42 Playing with Volumes to create several layers of outline. Some conceptual trouble at the start but we figure it out....
2020-01-09 18:36:33 +0000 UTC View Post
A primer for getting started with R21's Field Forces. The deepest tool added into Cinema 4D for a long time! Chris shows you how to use Field Forces to have more control than ever on your dynamics and particles. It is a more methodical system then most, so learning the basics of the different velocity ...
2019-12-19 00:02:18 +0000 UTC View PostI almost witnessed someone's career coming to an abrupt end on Monday. I saw many people ready to support a fellow artist by calling out a potential plagiarist and a thief. I observed preparations to spread the word all along social media to terminate a reputation of someone who by all evidence deserved it. The pitchfor...
2019-10-31 15:54:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Host: Chris Schmidt
Topics tackled:
"Anime" Last Effect
00:01:55 Various Mograph techniques to create a 2D anime look. The light blast looks pretty good!
54 cool 2D effect!: 2019-08-20 20:57:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a mini breakdown experiment. A distillation of the final question of Rocket Lasso Live Season One. Question was: Is it possible to link distance between two objects every nth frame? Let me know what you think of this little format!
2019-08-19 20:49:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Host: Chris Schmidt
Topics tackled:
Spray from a bottle
00:00:59 Tinker briefly with some basic particles and R21 Fields.
Green screen spray effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u...
2019-08-09 16:12:27 +0000 UTC View Post
R21 LIVE STREAM! Support Chris through Patreon: Get access to scene files and bonus streams. https://www.patreon.com/RocketLasso
Season 1 - Episode 18 (R21 Special!)
Host: Chris Schmidt & Rick Barrett
Had to...
2019-08-05 16:44:27 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Christmas in July! The new version of Cinema 4D has been announced. Chris breaks down the new features so you don't have to!
Apologies for the nasalness! Getting over a bad head cold!
00:00:00 - In...
2019-07-30 23:31:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Topics tackled:
HALF REZ! Get your Half Rez tickets now! www.HalfRez.com
Dry Paint Particles Off of a Brush
00:02:28 Tricky one, get some X-Particles on the Tip of the brissles of a brush. Whiel I'm not 100% happy with the result, I think it's passable for a...
2019-07-25 21:32:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Topics tackled:
Randomly Stacked 'Dice'
00:01:56 Using Mograph and Fields to create stacks of randomly rotated cubes. Pretty fun one!
Paper Skin on Internally Illuminated Text Redshift/Physical
00:52:43 It's right in the name! 2019-07-11 16:25:28 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.twitch.tv/rocketlasso
2019-07-10 16:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Cinema 4D tutorial Chris walks through the process of creating a collapsing pit using Voronoi Fracture and Fields. This is the first in a series of advanced dynamics tutorials with the goal of making dynamics more art-directable. After the completion of the rig, we jump into Redshift and ...
2019-07-09 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Topics tackled:
Flat Look Render
00:00:45 To establish a base to bring into Photoshop we model a quick box model of a basic car and colorize it with proximals. Sadly Photoshop crashes on us.
Beautiful Rain Paintings: 2019-07-04 16:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week we did an experiment of "Typed questions only".
Did you enjoy that? Should we do more themes? The worry is that a theme could restrict questions can ask, and if no one has a question that matches the theme, there might be NO questions!
If you vote for some amount of themes, post an theme idea as ...
2019-06-26 17:02:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Topics tackled:
Weight of Dynamics Objects
00:00:36 Difference between density and mass when it comes to dynamics objects. Build a simple seesaw rig to do some A/B testing
Project Modified Texture from One Object to Another
00:12:04 &n...
2019-06-20 23:29:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Host: Chris Schmidt
Topics tackled:
Basic IK Setup for Cubes
00:00:36 Can't push this one too far because of how long it will take, but the basics of the rig are built and discussed.
Colliding Cubes: 2019-06-13 16:49:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Host: Chris Schmidt
Topics tackled:
XP Dynamic Strings (Stumped)
00:01:23 We succeed for the first part, but can't stop it from stretching!
"Early Access Update - xpDynamics": 2019-06-10 16:15:27 +0000 UTC View Post
A new Chain Project has started on the Rocket Lasso Slack! Head into Slack and jump in to #Chain-Projects to participate or follow along! Topic voted on by members. It will follow a similar format to this past project 2019-06-03 18:01:32 +0000 UTC View Post
ROCKET LASSO LIVE
Season 1 - Episode 10
Host: Chris Schmidt
Topics tackled:
(Not) Vacumforming a Hand
00:00:30 Making a quick boxy hand to try and vacumform. Doesn't work too well sadly, but I learn something interesting about dynamics.
Hands packed ready t...
2019-05-31 22:37:57 +0000 UTC View Post
ROCKET LASSO LIVE
Season 1 - Episode 9
Host: Chris Schmidt
Topics tackled:
Using Xpresso to detect intersection
00:00:35 Sticking an object onto a surface using Xpresso and Ray Casting!
Rig Test for projecting: 2019-05-23 06:33:45 +0000 UTC View Post
In this FIRST tutorial by Chris Schmidt for Rocket Lasso he teams up with Aaron Coverett to take you from the start to finish through the process of using photogrammetry to bring a real life objects into your 3D workflow.We tackle valid candidate objects, taking your photos, photogrammetry, mesh cleanup, reto...
2019-05-21 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
