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Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 8 (Replay)

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 ...

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Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 7 with guest Amador Valenzuela (Replay)

Host: Chris Schmidt

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Support Chris through Patreon: Get access to bonus streams and scene files. https://www.patreon.com/RocketLasso 


Intro with special guest Amado...

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(Fixed) Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 6 Dragon Scales! (Replay)

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 w...

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Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 5 (Replay) with Jake Allen

Host: Chris Schmidt & Jake Allen

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Intro with special guest Jake Allen of Sarofsky!

00:00:10 Check out his work here! iamjakeallen.com

www.instagram.com/jakemadeathing

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Rocket Lasso Live with Guest Jake Allen of Sarofsky!

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 : htt...

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Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 4 (Replay)

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...

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Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 3 (Replay)

Host: Chris Schmidt & Krzys Pianko


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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 ...

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Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 2 (Replay)

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

(FREE TODAY) OFF THE RECORD S2 E1: CLOTH WRINKLES & BUNCHING

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....

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Rocket Lasso Live S2 Ep 1 (Replay)

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 t...

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Getting started with Field Forces in Cinema 4D R21

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...

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NOT Cancelling Someone's Career (Article)

I 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 evid...

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Rocket Lasso Live S1 Ep 20 (Replay)

Host: Chris Schmidt

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"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

Mini Tutorial: Question was: Is it possible to link distance between two objects every nth frame?

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!

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Rocket Lasso Live S1 Ep 19

Host: Chris Schmidt

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Spray from a bottle

00:00:59  Tinker briefly with some basic particles and R21 Fields.

Green screen spray effect: http...

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Rocket Lasso Live S1 Ep 18 (R21 & Special Guest)

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 B...

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Cinema 4D R21: Breakdown of New Features

 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!  

2019-07-30 23:31:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Rocket Lasso Live S1 Ep 17

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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 resul...

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Rocket Lasso Live S1 Ep 16

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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 &n...

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Don't miss today's stream, will be out of town next week!

https://www.twitch.tv/rocketlasso

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NEW TUTORIAL! Bottomless Destruction with Fields

 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...

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Rocket Lasso Live S1 Ep 15

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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

Should we do Themed Episodes of Rocket Lasso Live?

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 ...

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Rocket Lasso Live S1 Ep 13

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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 Anot...

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Rocket Lasso Live S1 Ep 12

Host: Chris Schmidt

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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

Rocket Lasso Live S1 Ep 11

Host: Chris Schmidt

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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

New Group Chain Project on Slack!

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 View Post

Rocket Lasso Live S1 Ep 10

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.

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Rocket Lasso Live S1 Ep 9

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

How to bring Real Life Objects into Cinema 4D: Photogrammetry Start to Finish.

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, phot...

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