

This great little tool automatically shatters objects and enables you to blow them to pieces using C4Ds dynamics. Nitroblast Nitroblast can be applied to animated characters Price: 65 Lazaros, aka NitroMan, has created many useful plugins, but Nitroblast is probably his best.

Its easy to use, includes 120 studio presents and has built-in support for renderers Octane, Arnold and Redshift. Light Kit Pro 3.0 Light Kit Pro 3.0 has a collection of photography style lights and stands Price: 249 190 The latest update to Light Kit Pro provides a complete and fully customisable lighting solution providing a variety of realistic lights, panels and softboxes with which to really hone your lighting. TFD is used in movies, TV shows and video game promos, and you only need to use the plugin and see the end results to agree its pretty special. The default settings took 46 seconds by tweaking the settings we got it down to just 13 Price: 369 459 TurbulenceFD is a voxel-based fluid dynamics simulation system for making fire and smoke. TurbulenceFD This heavy sim was rendered at 2560 x 1600.

You can create stimulations for cloth, smoke, fire and fluids, for example, and it integrates seamlessly into Cinema 4D. X-Particles X-Particles includes support for MoGraph Effectors Price: 590 This amazing particle and VFX system has a host of useful features. Its a bit of a niche product, but Trypogen encourages playful experimentation and can actually yield beautiful, if unexpected, results in very little time.Ĭombine that with its compatibility with MoGraph, and you have a very useful tool for little cost. Its a generator plugin that lets you take a simple object and create something that combines the best of mathematical-based processes with the random and organic nature of the more playful side of 3D. Trypogen Trypogens a bit niche but rewards experimentation (Image credit: The Pixel Lab) Price: 29.99 Every now and then you find a plugin that doesnt offer a means to a particular end, but inspires you to investigate further nonetheless. In this feature weve rounded up a few of our favourite plugins (although not all of them by any measure). So you can find Cinema 4D tutorials that mix third-party Modifiers and Effectors with native tools, use Turbulence FD to convect X-particles and then visualise them with the Hair shader, shatter meshes with Nitroblast and then animate them with Signal.
