Part 3 of the series explores some of my favourite features in Pixelberg’s post effects. We’ll get a look at what adding real-time anti aliasing, depth of field, blooming, tone mapping, and ambient occlusion can do for your renders. I put Pixelburg’s real-time abilities to the test by animating a swarm of assault rifles. Lastly, I go over how easy it is to navigate Cinema 4D’s view port, in real-time, with incredible ease and precision.

The 4^th part of this series looks at parametric geometry, and procedural shaders in real-time. I’ll talk about achieving realistic environmental reflections and proper fresnel settings, as well as some of the limitations of real-time rendering. I cover dynamic simulations, albedo, reflection, and roughness/gloss settings, and a very interesting feature called Parallax Occlusion Mapping.

The 5^th and final part of the series is all about final output. Being that Pixelberg is a view port render, the way you go about rendering animations is slightly different than what you may be accustomed to. I’ll show some comparisons between Cinema 4D’s built in Physical Render Engine and the results obtained by Pixelberg in a shockingly smaller amount of time. Plus… cat attack… so you know, that’s worth watching.

In part 1 of this series, I go over some of the basic steps to get up and running with the Pixelberg plugin. We’ll get familiar with the interface and where to find the tools you’ll need. We also talk about where you can get the plugin as well as some places to find some assets to do some initial testing with.