Let’s take a look a the layer shader. It is one of the more powerful shaders in the C4D shader arsenal. It basically works very similarly to the layers palette in Photoshop and the layered timeline in After Effects, so most of this will be familiar to a lot of you. Let’s dive in.


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Chrome text, chrome logos, chrome, chrome, chrome… everybody wants some bling bling. What makes metallic textures look so good? Reflections. Reflections are easy if you have some text floating in a complete modelled environment. What if you want some chrome text as an element to bring back into AE for a composite? Here’s a beginner/intermediate tutorial to show you how you to make it quickly…


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In the first part of this tutorial we’ll go through the theory and setup the basic MoGraph model and get it running. In part two, we’ll work on actually modeling the lights and the rig to get a good-looking final model.


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You have your product or title object beautifully modeled and textured…but what about lighting? Well, one short answer is to look into Global Illumination. Another option fake GI with a complex lighting scheme. There are many options out there, here is one. We’re going to use MoGraph to make the setup a little easier and more flexible.


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