Greyscalegorilla

🚨 New in Plus: A different kind of concrete. Patterned Concrete is a new collection of 20 design-forward materials. Built from real, custom-poured slabs with patterns that hold up...from wide shots to closeups. Finally, concrete you can actually design with. Send to your scene in one click with Cargo 3.0 and keep moving. 🔗 Explore Patterned Concrete: ow.ly/ufHC50YInmU

The new C4D Mograph Distributions make it super easy to set up condensation using a Surface Scaled Blue Noise Distribution node (literally seconds to set up). 💡 Don't forget to enable Brute Force caustics in Redshift to get more realistic droplets. Pair with our Area Light Maps for great reflections.

The somewhat new UV context node and the Hex tiling is the best thing to come to Cinema 4D in a while. If you're not sure what that is, basically the UV Context Projection node syncs all textures in a material across multiple projection types like Tri-Planar, Spherical, etc. Hex Tiling uses hexagonal shapes to hide repetition and add random variation. Perfect for terrain but IMO equally useful for surface imperfections. (Image by Maxon)

Layered to perfection. Natural grain, layered edges and soft color. These plywood materials are designed to feel clean, tactile, and believable from every angle. 💡 Tip: Exposed edges instantly add realism. Even simple geometry feels more believable when the material construction makes sense.

The team built Smart Send for one reason... One click setup. ⚡ Smart Send automatically builds dome lights, softboxes, gobos, and texture setups directly in Cinema 4D. Just pick an asset, send it and start rendering. 🔗 Get the full workflow on YouTube: ow.ly/Gf8X50YXEF6

Details matter. All Greyscalegorilla models now come fully textured with our materials, ready to render out of the box. 💡 Tip: Prepped assets = more time for lighting and composition. 🔗 Explore Nearly 1,000 Textured Models: ow.ly/bZra50YV7pw

You’re closer to final than you think. All Greyscalegorilla models are now fully textured in Cargo. No setup. Just send it and go. Explore the Updated Library: 👉 ow.ly/rX2z50YUMl3

🍎 An apple a day...keeps boring renders away 🍌🍒 @nickel_3d takes a simple setup and turns it into a colorful physics-driven animation using Greyscalegorilla fruit models, plastic materials, and HDRI lighting. 💡 Tip: Use a strong HDRI as your key light, then add rim lights to separate your objects. It’s a fast way to get depth and keep everything readable in motion.

The trick is making it feel loose… without losing control. @2d_pete’s “Swinging Plates” lives right between realism and graphic abstraction, using controlled motion to keep everything feeling intentional. 💡 Tip: Perfect sync feels wrong. Add small offsets to make motion feel natural.

A good studio setup should hold up behind the scenes too. @nickel_3d uses the Lights, Camera, Action Kit from @kitbash3d to recreate the feel of a real soundstage, building a flexible setup that looks just as convincing in BTS as it does in the final shot. Greyscalegorilla materials and lighting bring it all together. 💡 Tip: If you’re rebuilding your scene for every product, you’re slowing yourself down Explore Lights, Camera, Action and save 50% for a limited time: kitbash3d.com/products/light…

Want to move even faster in Cargo? ⌨️ @cgpov walks through the new hotkeys in Cargo 3.0 so you can jump between libraries, search instantly, and navigate without breaking your flow. 💡 Tip: Hide the sidebar and use shortcuts to stay focused on your assets. Try Cargo 3.0: greyscalegorilla.com/cargo

Same scene. Same lighting. Swap the Patterned Concrete on the wall and change the whole scene. Different material, completely different feel. 👉 Explore Patterned Concrete: ow.ly/srAT50YIryt

Cart + Horse built eight cinematic worlds in 48 hours. No massive team. No long runway. They combined @KitBash3D models for fast environment building with Greyscalegorilla materials and HDRIs to keep everything consistent under real lighting. Get your assets and lighting dialed early, and everything downstream gets easier. Get the full story: ow.ly/zfii50YO1o1

Patterned Concrete is not just for floors. These hold up in motion, closeups, and more abstract setups too. We didn’t make these just to sit flat. Push them. Animate them. Get close. 🔗 Explore Patterned Concrete in Cargo 3.0: ow.ly/qpSK50YIrbi

More than meets the eye. A @KitBash3D mech, transformed with Greyscalegorilla acrylic materials, HDRIs and surface imperfections. Easy to explore this kind of mix in Cargo 3: ow.ly/eAIV50YJXJX

Same collection. Different results. With Patterned Concrete, subtle shifts in pattern, light, and angle change everything. Tip: ⤵️ Rotate your material before you light it. A small change can completely reshape how the pattern reads. 🔗 Patterned Concrete now in Cargo 3.0 ow.ly/VyJl50YIoc7

@eyedesyn 😂😂😂

Huge missed opportunity here to lean into the fact that something called 'gorilla' is combining with a giant library of skyscrapers...😆

Take a closer look at the new discovery tools in Cargo 3.0 with @cgpov 🔍 Smarter search that understands intent 🖼️ Image-based asset discovery 🎲 Random Roll for inspiration ✨ Show Similar across the full library Spend less time searching. Spend more time making cool stuff. 🔗 Dive deeper into Cargo 3.0: greyscalegorilla.com/cargo

Go inside Cargo 3.0! The founders sat down to explain why we built Cargo 3.0, what’s new, and where the platform is headed next. From unified libraries and smarter search to faster drag-and-drop workflows, this is the full look at what Cargo 3.0 can do. Watch the full walkthrough: ow.ly/r6LF50YGJ5L