Cinema 4D Tutorial | Northern Lights (Patreon)

Pure Cinema 4D is all you need; All native, all standard renderer. So get your solar flares ready because we’re going magnetospheric with this one, baby!

00:00 Intro & Overview

00:20 Setting up the magnetosphere

01:01 Methods for Making an Aurora Texture

01:21 Making Aurora Texture with a Layer Shader and Noise Shader

01:33 Noise 1: Ribbons with Cranal Noise

01:55 Noise 2: Mask with Gaseous Noise

02:13 Difference between Alpha & Transparency

02:31 Noise 3: Pillars with Noise Noise

02:51 Animating the Noises in Cinema 4D

03:30 Setting up the Volumetric Lights

04:00 Light 1: Edge

05:40 Light 2: Streaks

06:12 Light 3: Purple

07:00 Hiding the magnetosphere

07:30 Tweaking the length of the Aurora

07:40 Keeping the aurora consistent with other meshes

08:00 Adding Aurora to a Planet

08:43 Limiting Aurora to North and South pole

09:14 Comping tips