Good stuff, all the best with your project bud, its looking great!!

Hi Parag, that’s coming along nicely, well done!

Texturing animated volumes is notoriously difficult, but I think for this example it might be best to use triplanar projection within your material – as that material is from the CG Shortcuts library it already has Triplanar nodes set up for you, just set the mode to REFERENCE so the texture…

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Hi Alexandre, good question!

Reflection and refraction will play a big part in getting this look, with a balance of light and dark areas in your scene and lighting.

It might be a good one for a project file and tutorial as its a bit tricky to explain in words.

I’ve added it to the requests list now on this page: https://cgshortcuts.com/requests/

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No worries, Polyhaven also has a great collection of free models

https://polyhaven.com/models

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I added a few extra balloon materials to this post that might help you out Bob
https://cgshortcuts.com/dynamic-balloon-rig-in-cinema-4d/

Hi Joanna,

I think CG Trader is probably the best value, you can also offer your own price on most things too so you can get a good deal directly with the artist.

Turbosquid has a big range but they are often the most expensive.

Here’s a list of popular choices:

1. TurboSquid

• Type: Paid (some free models available)
• Pros:
  • Extensive library with…

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Hi James, it’s totally doable this way, the tutorial is just a quick dirty cheat to save you some time. There’s some new angular connectors in the 2025 version of C4D too that might help with this kind of thing, I might do another tutorial showing how to set that up

Hi Bob, the BACK-LIGHTING/TRANSLUCENCY setting is in the old RS Material which you can still use in the latest versions of Redshift if you want to do it that way – The new Standard Material is usually a better option for most things but I still use the old shader pretty often for this sort of thing.

I might do a tutorial on creating a…

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Also make sure the texture map is high enough resolution for everything to fit on there, 4 or 8k maybe