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@clarenceAgreed, it's somewhat misleading: either pay $29 per month paid annually =$299 or purchase lifetime access for $299. Rather a steep price IMO. It's all pretty basic stuff, though. But I may be biased as an experienced 3d modeler - it looks really simple to me. But worth it if you are a beginner, I suppose. The students who took it seem happy enough. But I would not advise this course to mid-level experienced modelers. @clarence How experienced a modeler are you in LightWave? PS Interesting that one of the students used Blender to follow along instead. Shows that the basic techniques are identical across 3d packages. https://www.mographmentor.com/community/3d-stylized-kitchen-scene-blender-student-project/

This is a really good course imho. I got halfway though it before I signed up for some other higher priority courses. Really well explained steps and good bite size chunks. Ultimate Guide To Stylized 3D Modeling with Paul McMahon - MoGraph Mentor

Oh, those tutorials are really good! Thanks for the tip. Are they arranged in order from bottom to top? Or is it the Modelling Tips Playlist? That would be fantastic : ) It’s not a good time right now, but I’ll put it on my to-do list for the autumn.

I got a skype-based 1-1 style 'modelling 101' course with vacancies towards the end of August if that's any help. Hit me up in the PMs if that's of any interest... CBR

I think it's very poor that Insydium are asking users to convert licences - from perpetual to 'Fused' - without informing users of the exact terms of the licence they're agreeing to. I've asked them to send me a copy of the Fused EULA... I'll see what the response is...

Good to hear it’s not just me finding the copy/paste process user unfriendly. Better texture handling would save me hours of work.

I am C4D fanboy so no criticism should be taken personally, it's because I love the software and don't want to learn all the blender shortcuts anytime soon is why I am talking 'passionately'. There are two sections I expect every year but probably will be neglected for awhile: 1. Character workflows including - Xref update that actually work how you expect without going through entire myth of buttons and checkboxes to make it just stable enough that it wont corrupt your animators work when he accidentally does something. Just copy maya at this point. Also animation layers that work without being absolutely destructive like Motion systems is. And then some rigging stuff would help, for example IK chain templates could be cool, where you don't have to make your own systems and all the most popular IK chain setups would lay inside the one tag. Mechanical IK, Normal IK, Spine IK. Wings, quadruped, etc etc. 2. PBR Shader that would work as an default shader and would display in the viewport how it suppose to look. Entire world moved to the PBR and the Reflectance system is just not being used anywhere else outside of C4D and their own render engine, even Redshift doesn't display standard shaders properly...

WTF? Cycles4D Perpetual simply stopped? No email to a paying Cycles4D customer, no announcement on their page, no special thread here, nothing. I only stumbled over this in this thread accidently. Not the kind of business demeanor I expected from them. Shit. I can understand their decission, if it was not profitable. But their (non existing) communication really pisses me off. It is really like nobody cares for the customer, just cash (yeah I know, that's the harsh reality and I should not be surprised; I guess I watched to much Star Trek and am a bit idealistic). That's really sad, as Cycles4D allowed me to stay up to date at least with regard to rendering with my R21. There was something to look forward to... That said: I guess there will be no update to Cycles4D in the remaining 4 months of my maintainance period... I hope they prove me wrong but right now they are just one indsidious company among many. I think they will schedule the next update such that no perpetual user will profit from it. Oh damn, I was soo looking forward to Cycles-X So in 2021 Cinema4D really freezes for non-pro users. First Prime is stopped, then ProRender (a feature we paid for) is removed before it came even close to its potential (and surely this had nothing to do with the fact that MAXON wants to sell Redshift additionally), and now Cycles4D is not affordable for hobby users anymore. Sounds almost like a conspiracy to drive all remaining non-pro users away from C4D. Great 😕 Ah shit. Damn. No excuse anymore to not spend more time in that other software ...