Membership and C4D Covers

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I am seeing an increasing amount of what people are calling "C4D Covers" here on DeviantART, and several of the creators of these images have requested to join the group. The thing is, I truly believe that most (but perhaps not all) of these "C4D Covers" are the result of 1) misunderstandings due to several tutorials that came out two to three years ago on YouTube and several other tutorial sites about making Facebook and other Social Media site "Cover Images" and 2) people that think simply using stock images of Cinema 4D Abstracts in a photomanipulation makes that work a "C4D work".  The following video is of an actual work showing that the "C4D" came directly from Cinema 4D.



Yet if you look at a Google Search for "C4D Cover" you will find literally thousands of these "C4D Covers", and if you follow the links, you will see that most people say these were made with Paint Tool Sai, Photoshop, or Gimp.  The program Cinema 4D is never mentioned!  In some cases they do use other peoples Cinema 4D Abstract images in their work, but never even touch the Cinema 4D program themselves! I think that somewhere the name kind of "stuck" with these cool looking 3D Text Effect cover images being made with C4D to anything that remotely looked like that.... kind of how the name "Xerox" stuck whenever anyone needed a copy made...




For instance, in this following video, you will see this guy make a Timeline Cover in a tutorial he entitles "Tutorial how to edit C4D in Timeline Cover", and he shows the whole process he uses to make the image, including selecting what look like actual C4D Abstract 3D images, some of them from right here on DA! In fact he has, in the folder he selects the C4D abstract from, several images from Volture that I looked up, and they are not even listed as stock images! He's using other peoples work! It's hard to read some of the names in that folder as the video quality is quite poor. Yet during the entire process he never even once touches the Cinema 4D program!!! The stock he uses is from DA, and is from an artist that goes by videa.



This is the final image he creates and calls a "C4D Timeline" (notice he never credits the DeviantART Artist that comprises part of his image)!  He states in the description that only Photoshop was used to create the image!



Below is the DD Winning image that he uses as a stock image to make this "C4D Timeline" that isn't even a C4D abstract, it was made in 3ds Max! :rofl: And the image isn't even a stock image!  He stole the image and used it to make another image!



Again, another one in the following video... once again the guy never touches Cinema 4D, he only puts an image together using stock images and stock Cinema 4D abstracts...  






Please.  People looking to join this group, if you make these so called "C4D Covers" yet you do not even own Cinema 4D, please don't attempt to join.  Using Cinema 4D Abstract stock images that you have not even made yourself in what is really a "photomanipulation" does not by any means make that work Cinema 4D work. This is a group for owners and users of Cinema 4D or students learning the program under a students license.


If you do not own the Cinema 4D program, then you cannot join this group.



And! If you are the kind of artist who uses others images without asking permission, and treats everything you find on DA or Google as a "stock image", then "Lo and Behold!" Us REAL C4D Artists either know the artist you stole from, or we know someone who knows that person - it's a fairly tight-knit community. You will be reported. You will be caught eventually...
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Rjdesign3D's avatar
personal capacity I am not an expert working with cinema 4d many of its funciones.pero not be used all that I bring to the group I mean my covers are 100% cinema4d