Growing Structures – Branches and Veins [Cinema 4D]
Release date:2018
Duration:02 h 21 m
Author:Athanasios Pozantzis
Skill level:Beginner
Language:English
Exercise files:Yes
Growing organic tentacle-like structures, capillaries, veins, branches, vines e.t.c. is a very interesting effect, that can be achieved using volumes, fields and a few more tricks.
In this series, Noseman will show you how to create a setup where you can grow these structures, with a great degree of art-directability, while retaining a high degree of procedurality.
01 Introduction
02 Why you Shouldnt Use a Spline Growth Method
03 Overview of How the Growing will Occur
04 Create Final Shape of the Growing Structure using MoSpine
05 Setting up a Growth System using Volumes & Fields
06 Using a Growing Volume as the Seed to Grow the Final Volume
07 Using Keyframes to Control Growth
08 Adding Randomness over the Growth and Final Shape
09 Conforming the Growing Structure to a Mesh Using the Surface
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