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Sorry, I cannot resist answering this question. 😀 This proposal is not legal: children are always entitled to inherit properties from their parents.

Very generous. I have just subscribed. Thanks

Two years ago I received a fishy e-mail saying that my credit card had been blocked because misuse had been detected. As my complete name was in the email (which I don't use to write anywhere) I decided to call, but not the number on the e-mail, but the number on my credit card. They told me to call that number, as it was a real email. As I travel quite a lot and have to pay at hotels with the card, someone had got the data of my credit card. First they did a 1 $ payment to paypal, and after that it was about € 700 on different e-shops. Luckily the bank blocked the card. But I had to report the theft to the police to reclaim back my money. In the end of the € 700 only about € 150 made it to my account, but that was a scary experience, as I was abroad when I was notified. Anyway, as for today I block the card for usage in any country that is not where I am, and get e-mail and message notifications for every payment I do with the card. You can never be careful enough. Although I never enter my credit card details in any e-shop which does not use encryption, and don't save my credit card in any e-shop to "pay quicker" the next time, I got hacked.

Hey @jed, very interesting idea. I suppose that making the circles in 3D, instead of 2D, and letting the 4th circle pass through the 3 points would be so crazy, that the effect you got there would not be so smooth. I like it. The concept of an arc/circle passing through three points is similar to the one that says that through 2 points can only pass a line, but with a twist @Eterea, you gave me the idea of building this one. Thanks for using it in your clip, it was probably for much less than a second, but the result was very good. I loved that video.

A good while back, a member of the Cafe asked for a solution to have an arc always pass through three points. At the time I wrote a COFFEE script, which was quite hairy, but did the job (in most cases ) After the release of C4D R20 COFFEE did not work anymore and decided to give a go to that script using Python. To get better equations on how to locate the arc, I got to this page, which had the math to get it always working. So I coded the script, and today as a gift for the C4D community, I want to make it available for you all. Just open the file and move the points A, B and C around. The arc will follow the points. Point B is always the middle point. Have fun with it. If you find the script useful, please let me know. ThreePointArc_R20_python.c4d

I got it today. The only thing I find a little bit weird is the "Quickstart Cinema 4D 20" document. I believe MAXON should be thinking in phasing it out. Its content has practically not changed in the last three versions. I find the public tutorials in Cineversity more valuable than that. It is rather a kind of long marketing brochure but not a "Quickstart" guide. BTW I received at the start of the year a communication from MAXON indicating that, if I would like to receive an download copy of the next release I had to sign up to the ePorfolio. If I would not register they would send me the USB key, but at an additional cost. (25€ if I recall correctly). So I got to download R20 today.

Cerbera is right. I believe I have a page of the Grimoire, which I got a long time ago showing the face loop possibilities. I'm afraid I don't have the name of the page author to credit him. In all "good reference" wires I have the 5 point poles appear where the mouth/nose loops meet the eye loops and where the mouth loops meet the eye loops at about the cheekbones.

Today I received Cinema 4D rel 19. This is the time, when I would contact Cactus Dan to request a new license for his IK Tools. This year I'll spend a some time thinking about him and his willingness to help, and hope he is having a good ride wherever he is now. Dan, we are not going to forget ya!

After seeing the short it kind of brings to my mind a mix between WarCraft and StarCraft cinematics. I have never played Diablo, but this short might be more in that direction. Are you working for a gaming company doing this kind of job? This one is excellent, and I can imagine it as being part of a commercial product.

I had seen the old version of you web site, but this one tops it. The FAQ section, Artist and the comic one were hilarious. This is the first web site that I would completely examine, just for the shake of seeing what is going to happen. Good stickiness.

Why do you think that's a helix? It could be bended circles, which are much more easy to model than a single helix.

^^ Same here. In any case, the chances for me to answer another question from someone who did not previously sent a feedback were lower. Giving feedback is a matter of courtesy to someone who has taken some time to answer your question(s).

Congrats. I saw it on your Vimeo channel when I watched "The Pickman's model" The link to his video should be this one. I think something went wrong with the other link.

That's a very good start. Last week I was in a museum admiring some Dalis. He seems to have a tick in hiding people within the global picture. But I think that kind of things are very complicated in 3D. In this case 2D is easier to cheat with perspectives.

Funny. I open the box and... where is the DVD? There was no DVD! Instead an USB Stick! I find the idea better than DVDs, don't take as much place, and I believe they are faster and more durable.