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ARTIST Q&A
Artist q&A
Your CG problems solved

Practical tips and tutorials from

pro artists to improve

your CG skills

Mike Griggs
Mike Griggs is a digital
content creator with over two
decades of experience creating Mograph,
VFX and CGI for a wide range of clients.
www.creativebloke.com

Jason Knight
Jason is a freelance digital
artist with over 33 years of
experience. He enjoys the flexibility of
working with various styles and mediums.
www.knightgraphics.daportfolio.com

Pietro Chiovaro
Pietro is a freelance
3D artist, specialising speed up your workflow by exploiting
in the creation of game assets and the benefits of using redshift Proxies
environments. He is currently developing in objects that are heavy on geometry,
a new game. such as foliage or cars
www.bit.ly/PietroChiovaro
sOFTWarE: CINEma 4d | rEdsHIFT
Paul Hatton
Paul leads a studio of HoW Do I use reDsHIft
visualisers based in the UK.
He delivers a host of projects including proxIes In CInema 4D?
video and interactive environments.
www.cadesignservices.co.uk
Mona Denton, USA

Syawish A Rehman
A motion graphics and VFX Mike Griggs replies
artist from Pakistan with nine
years’ experience, Syawish loves motion Cinema 4D is great at many in a similar way. A Redshift Proxy is an
graphics and making video tutorials. things, but it can slow down embedded link within a master Cinema
www.bit.ly/syawish when it has a lot of objects in the scene; a 4D file to an external .rs file, which can be
real problem when rendering geometry. created from another Cinema 4D scene.
Redshift, the GPU-powered, biased The Proxy file has a much lower memory
render engine, has become popular with overhead than having the actual geometry
many 3D artists because of its blistering within the master Cinema 4D scene. This
fast render speed and ability to handle means viewport speed is vastly improved,
much more geometry than other GPU admittedly with the loss of viewport
render solutions. The integration of texture colour, which will hopefully be
Redshift into Cinema 4D doesn’t just give addressed in an update for the plug-in.
GET IN TOUCH users a quick render engine – with the use Proxies can be either still or animated
of Redshift Proxies the creation process scenes. Where Redshift Proxies are really
can be vastly sped up as well. useful is for geometry-heavy elements,
EmaIl yOUr qUEsTIONs TO If you are familiar with using XRefs which are only of secondary importance to
rob.redman@futurenet.com in Cinema 4D, Redshift Proxies work the scene, for example trees and foliage.

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