Cinema 4D Sand Tutorial with X-Particles

In this Cinema 4D tutorial, we’ll use X-Particles to create sand.

In the sand, we’ll reveal a logo. There’s movement in the sand, which is created by a series of displacement maps.

We control the displacement maps with vertex maps and fields. This displacement is driving the particles in the X-Particles setup.

To achieve a look of sand, we need to use a lot of particles. In the final result, there are 1.5 million particles. But it renders quite quickly.

I used Redshift as the render engine. It’s always a pleasure to work with fields inside of Cinema 4D. It’s so powerful.

Hopefully, you’ll learn something new.