Roger Dean is an iconic artist most well known for his fantasy landscapes that have adorned album covers for the past 30 years. In addition to his work for the music industry he has worked in videogames, publishing, architecture and film. Dean’s most well known work was album covers created for Yes and Asia. Continue reading Short Visual History: Roger Dean

This is a free 3D shirt template for Cinema 4D where you can render mocks of t-shirt designs. I made this for a friend and thought I would pass it along. Continue reading 3D Shirt Template

French developer Yann KOËTH, aka xs_yann, has a great selection of plugins for Cinema 4D at his site. xsTab, xsTextureTabs and xsHNSwitcher are great time saving plugins that I recommend. Unfortunately for Mac users some of these are PC only.

This is a little tip that I learned while working on a couple of posters and can help with multitasking. For a couple of posters I used radial blur; which at the high resolution I was using could take up to 5 minutes to process depending on the settings and blur area. So instead of staring at the progress bar creep across the window I could work on other tasks until I could go back to work. A little setting called “Beep When Done” in your preferences is disabled by default but by turning this on you are immediately notified by a little ding that your task has completed. You may not find that this is necessary to have on when working with smaller workspaces but I have found this to be incredibly helpful when working in large format comps.

Beep when done can be accessed under your general preferences under your edit menu.