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Thanos Kagkalos also known as MotionPunk is a motion design director based in Athens, Greece.

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4 years of Patreon! No more seconds for this reel to show all the content, so you HAVE to subscribe haha Thank you all for the support throughout the years, means the word to me!
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I am excited to share that for a while now, I am working as a freelance art director at Apple.
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RND for upcoming #Patreon tutorials. Based on a shot by the mighty MediaWork #cinema4d #octane #artdirection #cloth
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3 years of Patreon with a contest (open for everyone). Two people will get an Xparticles license and 1 Octane license+500 RNDR points. Visit the link for more info: Meanwhile enjoy new Patreon showreel. Many many thanks at @OTOY @insydium_ltd
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I had a lot of fun creating this project for a friend's performance. It is based on the greek play by Sophocles titled "Antigone". Original music composition by my buddy : @tedregklis #cinema4d #Houdini #octanerender #artdirection
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haha so true!
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Spline dynamics and more to come in my Patreon :)
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A small stress test in Xparticles after today's work. Have a good night :)
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After many months of rnd and work as part of the art direction/motion design team at Apple, excited to share the reveal for the new Macbook Pro. Congrats to everyone involved!
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And a quick render with #octane in #cinema4d
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Pyro is fun, but procedural point selections on splines is my cup of tea :) One of the most important updates of 2023.1 imo #cinema4d #notPyro
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This one is very dear to me. "Mamba Out" A @kobebryant tribute. Featured on @makersplaceco as we speak: #NFT #BlackMamba #NBA #Cryptoart #KobeBryant
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Xparticles and some manual keyframing, lead to this semi procedural rig. Not bad for a single click solution. #insydium #xparticles #Octane #cinema4d
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Besides NFT and client work, I also do tutorials about 3D and motion design. Here is a small reel breaking down my "Mamba Out" project. You can find more info and a lot other tuts at #tutorials #Patreon #cinema4d #xparticles #octanerender
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And wrapping up with this years explorations for Patreon, this is a new series where I will try recreate Houdini jobs in Cinema4d from studios like FutureDeluxe, Buck, onandon among others! #cinema4d #octanerender #artdirection
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Some of the explorations I did for the new Alienware laptop by DELL. With the awesome people at Framestore US. #cinema4d #octanerender #scifi #alienware #xparticles @insydium_ltd
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This month on my Patreon, breakdown of a commercial project I did for DELL Alienware with Framestore last year. #cinema4d #octanerender #artdirection
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Haven't posted anything for a good while, as I am super busy with work among other stuff. So I decided to put together a styleframe reel with a variety of commercial and personal work. Let me know what you think! #cinema4d #octane #xparticles #houdini #artdirection #motiondesign
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A simple rig I made for Doordash! Download it and have fun! #cinema4d #typography #free #tutorial
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As much as I 'd love to say this is c4d cloth.. this is a 30 sec sim in vellum :) #sidefx #houdini #vellum #cloth #simulation
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Had the great pleasure to assist the awesome folks at TheMill US once again, to develop a series of frames for the new Google Pixel 7 products. #cinema4d #octanerender #artdirection #googlepixel
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All about flowers Taiao/Forester/mograph/rendering is wrapping up this month in Patreon. Learn how to procedurally model/animate/manipulate many instances/light and render realistic flowers. #cinema4d #octane #xparticles
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Some more cloth in s26. Turbulence is broken here in all modes, in both gpu/cpu. Other than cloth is working nicely. #maxon #cinema4d #s26 #simulation
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Always happy to collaborate with the awesome people at ManvsMachine for Logitech's new gaming mouse G502X. More frames/rnd will follow. Check full video here: #cinema4d #octanerender #houdini #artdirection
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Happy autumn with new patreon stuff #Patreon #tutorials #cinema4d #Octanerender
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Octane 2021.1 is out! Took it for a spin with some shader stuff :) @OTOY #octane #cinema4d
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A small break from my lovely H sessions for @CampMograph titles. This is my small contribution to this amazing collaboration. Patreon breakdown coming very soon! #cinema4d #xparticles #artdirection
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Probably twitter is gonna kill it with the compression but oh well. Revisiting some Logi rnd setups for upcoming Patreon stuff :) #cinema4d #advection #mograph
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S26 and Houdini explorations with Octane on my Patreon :
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Fun days when everyone thought that NFTs were "the thing". I might continue this series. I so enjoy creating busy, silly, surreal, little worlds. #cinema4d #octanerender #tfd
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After waiting on other sites forever I decided to get going in foundation. “Ma(d)chines 01” is up for sale on @withFND A unique 1/5 pieces to complete this small series.
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A bunch of frames for Microsoft during design exploration phase.
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After quite some time of recordings in between jobs, I managed to put together this 7 hour Octane course. This is how I personally use Octane render in daily workflows and production. #octanerender #courses #tutorials
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And one last post about Logi project. I hope twitter (doesnt die for starters) and that doesn't ruin the quality much :) #cinema4d #octane #xparticles
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As promised a full breakdown + more stuff in my Patreon this month! Lots of explorations that did not work, particles, lighting and more! Enjoy! #cinema4d #xparticles #worldcreator #artdirection #tutorial
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Yes, 3D is difficult! That was my perception with 3dsmax: that its normal to crash every 20 minutes, that corrupted scenes was part of the "process", that scattering is impossible without plugins. This makes new people's journey into motion design intimidating. But I can assure
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And here is some animation RND for Doordash #cinema4d #octanerender #Houdini #food #artdirection
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Compression ftw! At least new xp update is awesome!!
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Rnd for a personal project that never made it :) #maxon #cinema4d #otoy #octanerender #megascans
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Maxon price raise comes on a very bad timing. Industry has been at decline for a very long time. How about supporting small businesses/individuals with indie licenses / 2 seat licenses?
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I made this image around 2017. That is straight out of Octane just with camera effects. No post process, no modelling, just kitbashing items. Nothing wrong with skipping the pipelines over results. In fact I encourage you to it! #octane #cinema4d
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Rnd for upcoming patreon tutorial. Procedural animated feathers in c4d/octane. Inspired by ManvsMachine rnd. #cinema4d #octanerender #feathers #artdirection
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I have no words, these are 4k clones / triggering keyframes / 136.000.000 polys. I did the math many times to be sure lol Idk what kind of sorcery is this but also i made over 1b polys with cloner object (instances) on another scene, with 2-3 fps performance. GG @MaxonVFX
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This. Probably the best 3d animation I ve seen. Ever.
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I just saw “Jibaro”, a masterpiece.
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4 years ago I started this journey and honestly I would never believe it would change my life. Much appreciate the support and the love you showed me all those years. Thank you all! Patreon content: #tutorials #cinema4d #octane #xparticles #artdirection
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Pushing c4d by recreating various production shots. This one is from FutureDeluxe amazing piece for Bang & Olufsen I didn't work in this project :) Cloth is near 500k polygons and cache took about 4 minutes on a 3090. #cinema4d #octanerender
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Soon, a breakdown of a gig I did long time ago with the awesome folks at MvsM #cinema4d #octanerender
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A quick test with new Nexus xp fluids #cinema4d #xparticles #octane #particles
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After many months breakdown of a personal project of mine is available on my Patreon. Project files & tutorials for Cinema4D and Houdini and rendered with Octane. Procedural setups, easy for beginners and art direction breakdown. #cinema4d #Houdini #tutorials #artdirection
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Landscape series I ve been working on last 1-2 months on my Patreon. We discuss about abstract landscape workflows from terrains to scattering techniques and rendering with a sprinkle of particles/dynamics on top. #cinema4d #xparticles #octanerender #tutorials
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Houdini practice whenever possible. I hate other softwares now.. #sidefx #houdini #vellum
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Random frames from 2022. I had the honour to work for Google, Logitech, Apple, Doordash among other brands. What do you wish to do different next year? #cinema4d #octanerender #xparticles #houdini
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Design explorations for Paramount+ projected on Las Vegas sphere with Did not make the cut, but was cool to play with the "plus" sign on some abstract themes. #cinema4d #octanerender #xparticles #artdirection
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Since yesterday I am trying to fight a copyright infringement that happened from @EliteEdgeTV on behalf of @celtics They ripped off my project "Mamba out" () and sold it for millions to their client. Attaching few screens from their video.
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More explorations for G502X Logitech. Working on projects like this means a lot of frames/variations. Some more, some less successful. #cinema4d #octane #xparticles #artdirection
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Evening fun with vellum grains. #Houdini #octanerender #grains #vellum
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I wonder why some individuals steal my project files from Patreon and copy paste my tutorials in youtube etc. They probably think they are smart, but reputation in our community/industry goes a long way. Appreciate the rest of you that genuinely support me. Cheers.
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Learning new tricks :)
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To whom it may concern: Stop sending me projects that need 20 people and expect me to do them alone with freelance budget and in 2 weeks. LOL
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Thanks to all the participants to my 3 year Patreon contest! I am having hard time to choose here but winners will be announced soon! Thanks a lot to @OTOY and @insydium_ltd for sponsoring this! #cinema4d #octanerender #xparticles
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Unlocking all capsules in Cinema4D you need MaxonOne subscription. Which means a professional that only needs c4d, needs to pay double the money for the software to fully function. Really frustrated, everyone is looking to grab a few more $ out of everything these days
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Flower stuff is so much fun! It's an endless subject actually #octanerender @OTOY #cinema4d #flowers #ProceduralArt #artdirection
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I managed to put together some Houdini series based on my Cinema4D knowledge. This is for absolute beginners and is super boring lol but it might give you the very essentials before you dive deeper into the rabbit hole :) #sidefx #houdini #cinema4d
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That sums up my pov about AI.
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“AI image generation isn’t about making art, it’s about AVOIDING making art.”
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Happy month! Some of the styleframes I did for Doordash with the awesome folks at TheMill US. Along with my favorite CD @Donnie_Bauer #cinema4d #octanerender #artdirection #food #doordash
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Back to c4d :) some rnd for upcoming patreon stuff. #cinema4d
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lol this escalated quickly
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New c4d supports fields in cloth, although not fully just yet but a rough example of whats possible for those who haven't been up to date. #cinema4d #s26 #cloth
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RBDs in new Cinema4d 2024 perform great! 100k clones without jittering and with good fps performance! And with very little overhead on the gpu vram (little over 3gb) Simple test but im gonna push :) #cinema4d #maxon
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Expanding the previous setup. Check out my Patreon for more info #cinema4d #artdirection #octanerender
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last one :) i must say Softbodies are definitely a thing now in c4d. Are super fast/accurate. Still lacking controls but a lot of things can be done already! #maxon #cinema4d #softbodies #s26
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I got carried away as I was doing a tutorial and instead of spheres I put together this image :) Interior masters don't be harsh on me, its xmas! #cinema4d #octanerender
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More cloth (without turbulence lol). This was impossible before s26! #cinema4d #maxon #s26 #cloth
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I love those controversial tweets :)
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Testing out new c4d particles. What do you like/dislike in them so far? #cinema4d #particles #maxon
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One of the styles I am always after is still life compositions. This is a full 3D piece that comes out as an edition of 5. Available in @makersplaceco #NFTs #NFTartist #nftcollectors
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C4d cloth explorations based on various case studies. If you have any requests for upcoming Patreon stuff, if you have something clothy/fluffy that worths recreating, please let me know! #cinema4d #octanerender #artdirection
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I love twitter
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Transfer color from pyro to mesh #cinema4d #pyro #quicktip
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Hair exploration I did last year with Octane render in c4d+Houdini. Houdini didn't play any part in shading/lighting but was crucial for animation behaviour. #cinema4d #houdini #octanerender #artdirection
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Some frames I had the pleasure to do with the awesome people at ManvsMachine. #cinema4d #octanerender #fruits #artdirection
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Patreon stuff. Cinema4d / Octane
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Happy holidays everyone :) Giving a more serious test to new c4d dynamics along with xparticles, Octane and a little bit of Houdini vellum love! #cinema4d #octanerender #xparticles #houdini
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Out of nowhere today I got into @makersplaceco !! So the first piece of original "Ma(d)chines" is up and running :) #NFT #NFTartist #cryptoart
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And where would we be without low key product shots? Logitech G502X Twitter only allows 4 photos at a time pff, i got about 23902 more lol #cinema4d #octane #artdirection
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Some pitches you lose and some pitches... you lose! Found these frames as I was tidying up my project folders for the year. I have so much work that I cannot show. Is that typical as well for you? #cinema4d #octane #quixel
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