This Can't Be Unreal!? | The C4D To Unreal Workflow

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som.bz/3Hgz1ff - Time to answer one of the most commonly asked questions... how to get your scene out of Cinema 4D and into Unreal Engine without losing all the hard work you’ve already done? Jonathan Winbush is an Unreal Engine pro and he will show the process. UPDATE: The Unreal 5.2 update has been released and supports Redshift materials working more seamlessly with Cineware.
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Check out Jonathan's School of Motion course!
Unreal Engine for 3D Artists - som.bz/3N9aU5L
Jonathan's course will have you feeling comfortable working with Unreal Engine 5. This course is a self-paced beginner's course for motion designers and 3D artists. Your instructor, Jonathan Winbush, will teach you how to import assets, world build, animate, and create cinematic sequences all in real-time. You'll also learn how to work with materials, lights, and cameras so you'll be able to create amazing 3D renders in no time.
School of Motion course catalog:
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Resources:
Unreal Engine
www.unrealengine.com/en-US
Cineware for Unreal
www.maxon.net/en/article/new-...
Quixel Bridge
quixel.com/bridge
Redshift
www.maxon.net/en/redshift

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@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

Make sure to check in the description for the project files so you all can check everything out and follow along as well! 🤙🏿

@UnboxingWinbush Жыл бұрын

You da best man 😇

@danielmojojohnson1169 7 ай бұрын

Hey my man, thanks for another great one. Do you know if this works for 5.3 ?

@JonathanWinbush 7 ай бұрын

@danielmojojohnson1169 it's actually gotten a lot easier now since this video! Go to my channel I have a ton of videos covering the updated workflows 🤙🏾

@danielmojojohnson1169 7 ай бұрын

Hey, I think I spoke to soon. I am using c4d 2023 and trying to send a file with GreyScale Gorillas Tran from into unreal 5.3. Any suggestions?

@kspmn Жыл бұрын

Winbush being always amazingly wild!!! The full course on School of motion seems a MUST!!!

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

😂 thanks so much 🤙🏾

@micbab-vg2mu Жыл бұрын

The rendering speed is impressive - thank you for the video.

@jonb2897 Жыл бұрын

You're awesome WINBUSH! Just signed up for your SOM class! Thanks man!

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

Appreciate the support thanks! 🤙🏿

@Omar-ny8lz Жыл бұрын

Dude. You're freaking so cool, wish I had your videos years back

@maxehrlich Жыл бұрын

Love it, this is packed with information!

@Buklen Жыл бұрын

was not expecting winbush when I clicked this. What a bloody legend!

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

😁 thanks! 🤙🏿

@antronero5970 Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@renfitch1404 Жыл бұрын

Nice tut fella. You make it look easy😎👍

@thibaultmillienne3004 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely awesome, this SOM course will be very helpful !

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy it! 🤙🏿

@lumatrace Жыл бұрын

Winbrush always saves the day with the best tuts!

@JonathanWinbush 11 ай бұрын

Thanks budday 🤙🏿

@robertoaguilar3722 Жыл бұрын

sick stuff man!

@ant_the_rant Жыл бұрын

Great job Winbush! Thank you SoM!

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much 🤙🏿

@almostnerd8499 Жыл бұрын

Winbush UE Guru. I learnt a lot from his videos. Thanks man

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🤙🏿

@melbendigo Жыл бұрын

Just what I was looking for! Thanks, Winbush! I know this isn't the point of the tutorial at all, but when I open the C4D project file as downloaded, the cloth sim doesn't flow like in the video. Instead, it kind of crumples up and the whole thing starts rotating counter-clockwise. Does anyone know why that might be? Shouldn't it be the same as in the video? My GPU is RTX 3080. Thanks!

@JosephWraith Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial! Is there a reason why my camera from C4d 2023.2 is importing in as an Object instead of as a Camera? I have the Project Settings correct and it's set to Standard render and the Timeline starts on 1.

@JonJagsNee Жыл бұрын

I love your null position strategy. I have been a monster and done it all by hand for the last year and a half ha ha well done sir grats on making a School Motion course :-)

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

Not going to lie I was always doing it manually as well but as I was making this tutorial I'm like there HAS to be an easier way let me figure this out

@JonJagsNee Жыл бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush yeah, honestly I never do any lighting in C4D anymore if I know the project is going to unreal. 🥹

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

@@JonJagsNee yup I'm the same way but I also understand for people that are new to want to build in C4D first since they are comfortable there but I feel as people get more acustomed to the UE system they will begin doing more of that stuff in UE directly

@JoshFryer Жыл бұрын

Das Bush for the win! Great content, friends!

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

😂🤙🏾

@joeykorenman Жыл бұрын

Mind blown. 🤯

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

😊

@Chewbacca2000 Жыл бұрын

Badass!! Thanks man!!

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

Absolutely 🤙🏿

@LukeBellissimo Жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Is there an efficient way to get material selection tags out of c4d into unreal? Something that would maintain the selection tag naming from c4d? Would be really helpful when porting over more complex geo that has already been setup with materials.

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

Naming wise no but with the latest Cineware plugin you it will now reconize selection tags from cinema

@m4r_art Жыл бұрын

Scrolled before I saw who it was, knew it would be Winbush! Great addition to the School of Motion team.

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

What up what up 🤙🏿

@m4r_art Жыл бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush what up! :)))

@robertochriqui8171 Жыл бұрын

Frame 1 on the export settings… THANK YOU!

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

Yea that one took me awhile to figure out

@inmotion31 4 ай бұрын

Winbush! you are a legend ma man!

@JonathanWinbush 4 ай бұрын

Thanks buddy

@osompr Жыл бұрын

Amazing

@eliellgvs1 Жыл бұрын

Cool. Make a video how to update the animation, like the alembics, camera, etc, in case the client ask for changes. Should be just a "replace matter"? Or need more tweaks?

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

Just hit reimport after you make your change in cinema kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rpholLqBvtTWmKM.html

@fiercecurry Жыл бұрын

Are you using Lumen or Pathtracing in the UE renders? I know they each have the pros and cons.

@Cos3D Жыл бұрын

would it be theoritically possible to create game vfx abilities in c4d and import them in ue ?

@alidarvini2624 Жыл бұрын

Could you plz tell me what config system need to make this video ?

@danpejril8337 14 күн бұрын

Tip: when you are parenting the Null to the objects, you could just click on the Reset Transform button and it will zero out the coordinates for the Null - instead of doing it by hand.

@user-cf8ey9rv1j Жыл бұрын

Very cool....

@gabyanto2690 Жыл бұрын

The C4D To Unreal Workflow MORE OF THISS ¡¡¡PLEASE!!!

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

Absolutely 🤙🏿

@PedroSousaPK Жыл бұрын

awesome to be seeing some unreal content!

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

More to come! 🤙🏿

@scottdpeterstv 4 ай бұрын

How do you add your level sequence with all your keyframes into a new sequence using Camrea Cuts you show 18:00 min into your video? Everytime I try to render directly from my level sequence I got from the C4D import, it renders the wrong camera view.

@MichaelFlynn0 Жыл бұрын

Bravo.

@strangeapprentice Жыл бұрын

How about the Cineware plugin. Why did you use Datasmith instead?

@TheDude671 Жыл бұрын

Can you make same Blender to Unreal?

@littlecurrybread Жыл бұрын

hey winbush, do you feel unreal can hold up in providing high quality renders for live action? I do vfx and would love to go from c4d to unreal to AE/nuke for compositing.

@correctopinion4708 Жыл бұрын

while the mandalorian is awful looking, the background is real time made in unreal

@mcfly531 Жыл бұрын

Awesome! More unreal engine content please.

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

More to come 🤙🏿

@danielmojojohnson1169 7 ай бұрын

Lol, never mind, I think I just found your newer video on it. Thanks again

@ProfessionallyIncorrect Жыл бұрын

At 20:10, it looks like the UE version doesn't respect the phong/normal angles correctly. The bevel appears sharper and you can see faceting. Is this a shortcoming of UE or are there controls to fix this?

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

I wanted to show here using as much as EJ's project as possible but in a typical workflow I'd use a native shape in Unreal instead so it'd be much sharper. You could always make the shape in cinema more dense as well since unreal can handle high polygon counts.

@ProfessionallyIncorrect Жыл бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush Thanks! Good to know. Very likely grabbing this new series. Looks great.

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

@@ProfessionallyIncorrect Thanks buddy I think once you really dive in you'll understand more about the UE workflow but I've been having a blast these past few years using unreal

@timothybladel5828 11 ай бұрын

I cannot get this cloth sim to engage or work and I am maybe unsure if it is just that I have to turn something back on.

@sebastianrosandi3787 Жыл бұрын

This is so cool!! Is possible to make animation cloners rock from cinema 4D to unreal? I use rocks from Bridge but went i go to unreal have no material pls help

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

Yea let me make a quick tip tutorial real fast for ya it's easy but better to show how

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

Here you go hope this helps kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z72dl9ef0M3QhIE.html

@nicolajesteban9211 10 ай бұрын

I wish you would have bothered us with the art direction stuff :( if you ever feel like making a tut on art directing lighting and materials that'd be amaaaaazing. but this is still so valuable :)

@BongbokCG Жыл бұрын

🔥🔥🔥🔥

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

🤙🏿

@latanjang8636 Жыл бұрын

i was anticipate which is collarbor c4d and unreal engine .

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

🤙🏿

@newatlasspro Жыл бұрын

Hi dear ; Please I have a question. does unreal engine support a cinema 4D projet which contains fur on it ?

@JonathanWinbush 11 ай бұрын

Yup it does though it's not plug n play you have to enable it on the unreal side

@newatlasspro 11 ай бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush could you please tell me how

@cjadams7434 10 ай бұрын

i’m a bit confused because you did a previous video bringing red shift materials over into unreal already so why can’t we bring those materials over in this instance?

@JonathanWinbush 10 ай бұрын

This was made before that was possible

@cjadams7434 10 ай бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush Got ya! cool

@zainabjebur Жыл бұрын

Thanks🙏

@ThisDaniel 4 ай бұрын

get it

@michaelkablitzeditor Жыл бұрын

what exactly is the advantage of bringing all of this into Unreal if it takes this much prep and work afterwards? What is the purpose of all of this in this example?

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

I'd personally just do it all in unreal this is only showing a workflow if you want to start in c4d and bring it over

@ThinkWyld Жыл бұрын

More of unreal plz, king of c4d and unreal 🙏

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

Definately more to come 🤙🏿

@TutorialVirusRj Жыл бұрын

Osm🎉

@rbsn3d 8 ай бұрын

Sorry to ask but can anybody tell in one sentence why it is good (or even better) to render out of Unreal than out of Cinema4D since the scene is built in C4D?

@silurian1980 8 ай бұрын

Just what I was going to ask. As a motion designer I would like to learn more about UE but I'm not sure I see the benefits yet.

@addol95 Жыл бұрын

While the end result is completely passable for a simplistic scene like this - you're lying to yourself if you say you can't tell the difference.

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

At the end of the day it's just about keeping my clients happy in which they have been thrilled with the speed in which I'm able to deliver my graphics to hit the tv show fast paced deadlines 🤙🏿

@mae2309 Жыл бұрын

THUMBS. THUMBS. WAY WAY UP PLAYBOY... YESSSSSSSSSSS

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

🤙🏾

@abramjessiah Жыл бұрын

by the time you get everything set up in unreal, it could have just been rendered in redshift.

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

not really it took about a few hours to render in cinema just at HD and I rendered this in 4k in 60 seconds

@Ben-rz9cf Жыл бұрын

Not to mention the extra monthly subscription he could have paid instead of using an incredible free software! Like use your brain winbush you're missing out on spending money

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

@@Ben-rz9cf 😁🤙🏿

@bigrods Жыл бұрын

this is great content, but besides the speed of the render why would someone spend money on another 3d software? Does it really pay off?

@mr.pinouxinc4293 Жыл бұрын

UE is free

@imiy Жыл бұрын

And why 3D softwares don't develop render engines similar to UE5?

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

There was one company that was trying to make one that worked in Cinema 4D but they went out of business last year I can't think of the name off the top of my head

@mr.pinouxinc4293 Жыл бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush U-Render

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

@@mr.pinouxinc4293 That's it! I couldn't think of it for anything thanks!

@mr.pinouxinc4293 Жыл бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush Yeah, too bad they had to shut this.

@germanmairen Жыл бұрын

But what's the reason to go from C4D to Unreal? I mean...if you already have the project set in C4D, why take all this effort and time to achieve a look that honestly you can easily get in Redshift and Octane? And that's for a scene that is more or less simple. I can't imagine all the things you would have to do with a complex scene (with a lot of materials, tag selections. etc...). I don't get it.

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

Always good to have options in workflows different projects call for different solutions. I'd personally just do it all in unreal to begin with as I show in my course but sometimes you want to use a function from another DCC to bring it over.

@germanmairen Жыл бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush Sure! I’ve enrolled into the course a few days ago, by the way! I al one of your students! 😅

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

@german mairen very cool! Excited to see what you think by the end of the course 🤙🏾

@no_damage Жыл бұрын

OF course my animations arent transfering

@OgglemcSly Жыл бұрын

There are obvious tells that yours is rendered using unreal. The half res reflections are on, the stratification of the lighting, the lack of sheen on the cloth, and the flicker of the bloom. I am absolutely a fan of using unreal engine to render, but the results for something like this are not really all that good. I think path traced results are always going to be superior, and you're being a little ingenious by ignoring the dark side of unreal rendering - lack of AOVs and passes, very tricky glass setups, warm up frames, screen space effects, raytraced shadows when using nanite, and more. This isn't a workflow that works for anything further from these short abstract pieces.

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

Not entirely true alot of studios like The Mill, Zoic, NFL and even myself are using Unreal so it's being used in mainstream commercial work as well. All those automotive commercials you see on TV that's unreal alot of the time.

@JoshuaLundquist Жыл бұрын

Also Unreal has a Path Tracer

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

@Joshua Lundquist indeed it does which just got about update recently

@JoshuaLundquist Жыл бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush Nice, I have yet to dive into making Path Tracer look as clean as Redshift, but it seems doable (with an HDRI to help add those soft shadows / ambient occlusion)

@mograph-bricklayer Жыл бұрын

53 "actuallys" in this video. 53! That's more than two a minute. He keeps using that word. I don't think it means what he thinks it means.

@JonathanWinbush Жыл бұрын

Actually i said what i said 🤙🏾

@cars103 Жыл бұрын

Nice one Winbush! What about c4d cameras in more complex rigs? for example a cam that is constraint to a car with a contraint tag set to parent? And the camera might even be animated inside the constraint tag with the offset parameters and plus that the camera has an aim contraint or a target tag to aim/target somewehre. So really complex rig- not only with standard psr keyframes... would you bee so kind to update us on such a scenario? I am eyelovemotion - you might remember me from instagram. thanks in advance