C4D Tutorial | Northern Lights

Source files for my Patrons: You can do aurora in After Effects too: Freelance flawlessly in Motion Design: Pure Cinema 4D is all you need; All native, all standard renderer. So get your solar flares ready because we’re going magnetospheric with this one, baby! 00:00 Intro & Overview 00:20 Setting up the magnetosphere 01:01 Methods for Making an Aurora Texture 01:21 Making Aurora Texture with a Layer Shader and Noise Shader 01:33 Noise 1: Ribbons with Cranal Noise 01:55 Noise 2: Mask with Gaseous Noise 02:13 Difference between Alpha & Transparency 02:31 Noise 3: Pillars with Noise Noise 02:51 Animating the Noises in Cinema 4D 03:30 Setting up the Volumetric Lights 04:00 Light 1: Edge 05:40 Light 2: Streaks 06:12 Light 3: Purple 07:00 Hiding the magnetosphere 07:30 Tweaking the length of the Aurora