Cinema 4D Tutorial - Creating Plastic Vinyl Toy Textures with Octane Render Video Lecture | Create stunning 3D Graphics with Cinema 4D - 3D & Animation

hey everybody its EJ from I design comm
and today I'm gonna be showing you how
to create a plastic vinyl toy texture
inside a cinema 4d using none other than
octane render holy crap I'm finally on
octane let's check it out alright so
here's our little quote-unquote vinyl
toy that we're gonna be texturing today
and what we're gonna be doing is
creating a nice vinyl plasticky toy
texture inside of cinema 4d using octane
renderers so this is my first foray into
octane as far as a tutorial goes so hold
on to your butt's let's just fire up our
octane live viewer here and you can see
we just have a completely untextured
Apple dude here so what I'm gonna do is
just go ahead and you can see how much
of an octane new by in because that's
not how you do it now we create
materials going to our live viewer
window and grabbing materials here and
for what we want we want nice shiny
shiny materials so we are gonna go for
our octane glossy and we're gonna go
ahead and let's just apply this on to
Apple like so and let's just go in and
go into our little options here and
we'll rename this Apple and we'll go
into diffuse and we'll give this a nice
reddish orangish kind of Apple material
kinda like that and this is looking kind
of okay
I mean it's octane so even that clay
render look pretty dang good but what we
we see is just a very subtle hint of a
reflection that's because we don't have
anything in our scene really to our for
our objects to reflect so what I want to
do is change that and go ahead and add a
few lights so I'll just zoom out here
I'm in my for up view and this is gonna
get them really pretty quick I got this
extra view here so maybe I'll shrink
them down and again we'll go into our
objects menu
and just get a knock teen area light and
we're just gonna go ahead and we're
gonna start painting with lights we're
gonna put on our Bob Ross afro and play
with our pretty pretty legs and we're
just gonna let's just have a
conversation with with our lights and
and talk to you talk to our lights and
figure out where where their home wants
to be where do they want to live you
have to you have to figure that out you
have to talk to your lights and we're
just gonna put this one right over here
we're just gonna have this as a happy
little rim light here in that I think
it's it's telling me it's homes right
here and we're gonna make this a very
slippery very small area light right
there and we get this nice little
highlight on our Apple friend here and
I'm gonna stop and you can see that we
have a light in our scene that's a
softbox
and now we have this nice reflection now
we're just gonna bring down the power of
that light because it's a little bit
much it's a little hot so maybe bring
that power down to 11 or 15 something
like that and I don't want to see this
in my render so I can just go to my
visibility options and just say no
camera visibility boom and then that's
gone and our area box shape is is is
finito it's not showing up and then what
we can do so this is our happy little
rim light and let's just duplicate this
and make this kind of like a key light
and don't mind though the wonkiness
going on down here at a turn-off like an
object update setting because it's kept
crashing my my 2013 Mac Joe under Y but
anyways
using my little EGP you render a GPU
setup which are planning to do a
tutorial on hopefully in the near future
but where again we're gonna play with
our happy little key light over here and
talk to it and we're gonna find out
where as home as as well I think this is
looking I think it's it's homes right
about here
I'm just gonna move that right there
and me making this a little bigger all
right and I'm sure people out there just
like please got stopped and okay I'll
stop and we're just gonna duplicate this
key light make this happy little
overhead light and just move this on top
and we just give it you just wants a
little overhead view of our little Apple
friends yeah fold yeah
I'm still doing it it's still funny to
me and we'll just move that so we got
this nice little softbox highlight right
back there and maybe we move this over
here all the way the rim light so we get
like this really nice big it's kind of
lighting the background too so maybe
we'll move this up so it's nice kind of
bringing our subject off the background
again we're having that wonkiness going
on there but that's looking good we we
now have some light some softbox some
soft boxes in our scene that we can now
way better see how our reflection is
working in our scene right all right so
let's go into our full view and start
messing around with our materials here
because we got a lights now we just can
start you know futzing around with our
material here at glossy material so our
diffuse is good this is not good
hopefully that updates then we're gonna
go to our specular and this is where we
can actually like change the color of
the specular I'm just gonna hit this
again so maybe we don't have that
wonkiness but we can change the color of
our specular if we want to by changing
this from black and maybe we can give
this like a reddish tint that's way too
red so maybe we can just give it just a
touch of you know pink lights red in
there and that's if you want just a very
subtle hint of specular in there do
whatever you want or you can just leave
this
black and then you can actually adjust
the the float value here to kind of fade
in our our specular highlights that are
showing up in there so I think I'll just
leave it like that
and want to introduce any color but you
can do as you want but where the real
magic happens with the whole plasticky
vinyl look is in the roughness channel
because you know this adds a sense of
realism this is way too fake kind of
shiny plastic and this is where we
introduce a little bit of blur so as I
up this float value you can see we have
this really nice you know introducing
this grainy roughness here has a lot
more realism to our model if I just zoom
in here you can see how nice that looks
going on right there you can see a
little bit of grain and of course if you
up your samples all that grain will go
away but this is this just looks awesome
to begin with because octane it renders
so fast and good luck rendering a fast
you know blurry reflection inside of
physical render it's this is just so
snappy but this is really where you can
choose you know just like Bob Ross what
you watch what are you feeling like what
is your vinyl toy textures it's super is
it super matte or is it super shiny it's
all up to you and your happy little
vinyl toy guy but I think I want this
fairly you know shiny but fairly diffuse
and blurred so I'll use like a float
value of 0.2 but again this is pretty
you know it looks way too perfect you
know I mean so what we're gonna do is
introduce a little bit of imperfections
to this roughness to add a little bit
more realism and how we're gonna do that
is by loading up a you know grunge map
and we'll just go and go to see 40
octane and image texture boom and we'll
load up just a nice like fingerprints
texture it's the same when I
used in the donut tutorial that I did do
in the physical renderer vinyl toy so
same one there's a lot of grunge maps on
the web tons out there
I can definitely leave a link in the
description for David arias a big
massive happy list of resources that he
uses so I'll definitely link to that but
it's fairly easy to find these grunge
maps anyway so you back fight hit edit
you can see exactly what that looks like
a finger printed it myself not really I
don't know who did that but you can see
this looks so good you can see what's
happening is this image is acting as a
mat and is kind of adjusting where or
defining where the shiny bits are and
where the not so shiny bits are where
are blurred out parts of our material
isn't just this alone adds a lot more
where and realism to our scene I almost
said real less realistic ISM that's not
a word but we can also you know if this
is a little bit too much or actually I
think the first thing I see is maybe
this grunge Maps a little too little so
we can do is just go into our image
texture and go to U V transform click
that little button then we can go and
twirl that down and maybe you know scale
this up to maybe 1.5 so something like
that so we get a little bit bigger we
kind of scale it up maybe two so we have
this really nice big grunge map now and
we can actually go back into our
roughness in this mixed texture I think
this is a little bit too pronounced it's
it's a little bit too grunged up for my
taste I think I want to make it a little
bit more subtle of a grunge map so the
thing we can do is just kind of back
that off by adjusting this mix value and
as I just the mixed value you can see
that grunge map kind of goes back it is
a little bit more subtle and I think
that's almost perfect and I hate these
garbled e gook values so I'm just gonna
even an out it's one
pet peeves just really weird long things
and octane has a lot of those so I'm
very anal retentive I'll always round up
so there we go so like a point three
value mix looking pretty dang good
alright so the next thing we can do you
know we covered our roughness the next
thing we can do and I'm just gonna
uncheck all these dang things that I do
not need so that there the next thing
we're gonna do is to add that little
sense of realism now if you look and
again this is all depending on like you
know do you want a matte finish kind of
plastic or super shiny but if you if you
just have like an object in your office
or whatever and if you're like me you
actually have a ton of these vinyl toys
all around but if you look up super
close to like a vinyl or a plastic
object you can see that it's pretty
rough it's almost like there's tiny tiny
tiny little bumps or a little noise
bumps on your object to create that kind
of roughness so we can create roughness
in two ways we can do it in the bump or
you know just blurring out a reflection
but adding it adding some noise in the
bump adds that nice extra bit of like
noisiness and imperfection to your vinyl
toy render so what I'm gonna do is just
go into my textures here and grab some
c4d octane noise and you can see already
this kind of this is a you know kind of
interesting what's going on there it
looks pretty cool though it adds you
know it does add a bit more imperfection
to this for sure it's a little bit too
much though the one thing I want to do
is probably just up the octaves and
we're just gonna use the paradeen one no
know why I said that like that no but
it's a fun word to say Berlin and then
you can adjust the Omega and stuff like
that which I'm really not gonna do I
think I'm just gonna leave that kind of
at the default the one thing we could do
to kind of back off how much of this
bump there is is well number one this
bumps way too big
but we'll come to that later but I'm
just gonna back off how deep those bumps
are by adjusting this gamma and this is
pretty finicky the one thing I'd really
again with these weird values is you're
just how much like you could just go and
move it like a tenth of a tenth of a
value or something and it'll just
completely change like crazy so if I go
all the way down actually I think that
looks pretty good like maybe a point one
is just enough and you can see that we
have a little bit of bumpiness
so add that added bumpiness there with
our you know roughness grunge map really
adds that sense that hey this is a real
object it has those imperfections so
that gamma of one looks good but
basically what I want to do now is make
it so I can actually see the noise and
I'm gonna scale it down so I just want
to like visually see I don't want to set
a keyframe how this noise looks so it's
really big right now I'm gonna go and
check the lock XPath app aspect ratio
apex ratio that's misspelled hey aspect
you need to fix that's a bug but yet at
Apex G's its aspect ratio yeah okay
we're just gonna scale this down a peck
ratio get-together or toy okay so we're
just gonna scale this get down and again
we can actually visually see what our
nose is looking like so maybe like a
0.01 and again like I was saying this is
almost like a roughness right so we're
almost like adding some roughness with
when we don't even need roughness right
because it's roughing it up via the
actual bump Channel so again this is way
too much so we're gonna back off
how much of this gamma there is maybe
like all the way down to 0.01 seems to
be a recurring theme the 0.01
but that looks pretty pretty good pretty
pretty good so maybe like 0.5 and you
can see just how that jump of like
adding that 0 0.01 and then that 5 you
can see a little bit more actually like
that I think we can make up the noise a
little bit more it's still subtle but I
think that looks a lot more like a you
know finally kind of toy
so that's bump and the last thing we're
gonna do is change the index of
refraction to something higher so
looking up on the interwebs I found that
you know some vinyl toys blow plastic is
usually a value of like you know 1.5 you
know somewhere in there sometimes I like
to make it a little bit shinier maybe so
maybe like point 1 point 6 and kind of
again see what look you're kind of going
for actually I think maybe a point 6 is
a little bit too much so maybe it's you
know 4 5 so maybe we back off that index
of refraction a little bit but it adds a
little bit more PLAs plastic to see yeah
but yeah this is looking pretty good so
now what we can do is maybe you know we
will add this texture just change the
color so I'll just duplicate this make a
you know the leaf color and make that
you know like a green the diffuse here
so maybe like a greenish bluish and then
just apply that to our leaf boom again
let's just add the you know Apple
texture to the limbs here so we got a
lot more going on there now we'll
duplicate this one more time and make a
little stem material so just duplicating
that original Apple material apply that
right there and then we don't want our
little worm guy to be left out so we'll
go and make
like a pinkish kind of texture here just
really quickly so all this is just kind
of choosing colors whatever feels right
to you
it's just apply this to our worm friend
there we go
cool so the one thing I like to do and I
did this in the physical render tutorial
with the donut dude is it's nice to kind
of you know sometimes vinyl toys have
two types of finishes on the toy so
maybe you'll have like a you know matte
finish on one of the objects but then
maybe the eyes are a little bit more
plasticy shiny plastic so that's exactly
what we can do and I think it adds a
nice bit of contrast to your objects so
what I'm gonna do I'm gonna duplicate
that Apple material and we'll make this
the eye white and let's just apply this
on our eyeballs and then we'll just
change this to white change that diffuse
to white and one thing I'd recommend is
not choosing a hundred percent white
maybe like ninety like 95 percent white
just because nothing in real light is
real life is 100 percent white or 100
percent black plus it allows you a
little bit of wiggle room when it comes
to post post effects and stuff like that
and crunching your curves and all that
stuff so I'll just choose like a you're
just like an off-white kind of thing you
know let's just really quickly make a
black diffuse material for our irises
and again not a hundred percent black
there may be you know just a little bit
of eight percent gray in there and let's
just apply this to what our iris is here
just to really complete the look
there we go can I actually drag and drop
that in there I'm not gonna try that I
don't know yet again octane newb here I
know how to text your stuff I don't know
all the ins and out of this work
shortcuts but yeah cool so let's go into
our I whites well let's just try that
didn't do anything okay well we
experiment we had a play oh no it did it
okay we can do that that's a thing cool
learning everyday right let's just do do
the lips yeah cool sweet alright so back
back to business let's go into the I
whites were already there the roughness
let's bring down that roughness value
and again we want like a very shiny
texture we could still and actually
let's turn off the bump there completely
because we don't maybe know let's just
turn off the bump we don't want any bump
bump get out of here roughness maybe
again just zero roughness is a little
bit too fake so maybe it's a point one
let's see what that looks like and
that's looking pretty good and then
maybe we still keep some kind of value
for that mixed strength of or a little
grunge material I think that's looking
pretty good
so you can see that we have this nice
highlight and because you know really
only highlight you can see at this
moment is that RIM light off to the left
here so maybe what we can do is just
just so we can see what this reflective
surface is gonna look like move our
lights a little bit forward light so
let's go to our for up view and just
move or happy limb right happy limb
right happy rim light right there and
maybe shrink it down so now you're
seeing a little bit more of how glossy
our eyeball texture is and actually to
be quite honest
I don't know how glossy that actually
looks so maybe we go back into our
material here let's actually turn off
the overhead maybe the key
and just kind of focus on what's going
on right here so let's go back to our I
white and maybe that that blurriness is
a little bit too much means that
roughness is too much now we're kind of
seeing a little bit more let's make this
bigger you see that little nice
highlight going in there you can kind of
see it just a little bit again this is
where maybe we go to our diffuse and
make this you know maybe a darker white
maybe a middle gray so we can more see
those bright little highlights there so
yeah I think that's looking a lot better
the one thing we can do to add more
Sheen to this course is just upping the
index of refraction we can see a lot
more of that shininess coming through if
we have like an index of two versus that
one point four or five or whatever you
had before so way more glassy so maybe
that's a little bit too much but you can
definitely tell let's just zoom in here
you can definitely see that nice
shininess happening right there and
maybe we can even pull this back a
little bit more it's again this almost
looks like glass but that looks like a
nice plastic and sweet really sweet
imperfections going on with that grunge
map so it almost looks like we got some
scratches happening you know when you
really get in here you can really see
all that realistic detail just using one
grunge map in the roughness here so
again maybe we can pull that back a
little bit again full numbers it's maybe
a point too and then maybe just a tiny
tiny tiny bit of roughness in here so
maybe like a point 0.05 so that's
looking pretty good
looking pretty realistic for like a
shiny shiny glossy toy so we have the
nice shiny I I bits here maybe we want
the lips to be a little bit shiny or -
so maybe we back off the roughness there
as well
we got a little bit shine your lips we
can turn back on our lights there we go
and you know even maybe the worm dude we
make a little bit shinier because worms
are slimy and gross creatures so they'll
be a little bit shinier cool so there we
go we have our nice shiny vinyl material
toy texture that we utilize the diffuse
specular roughness and bump channels and
some index of refraction and to create
this really nice realistic looking vinyl
toys using octane in cinema 4d alright
so we used octane render to create some
really realistic vinyl plastic toy
materials inside of cinema 4d played
around with some grunge maps we added
some bump to the bump channel to make a
very realistic looking vinyl toy model
now if you have any questions about
anything I cover in this tutorial be
sure to leave them in the comment
sections and if you make anything if you
texture anything like a vinyl toy inside
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