Part of our INSYDIUM Fused Collection, X-Particles is a fully-featured advanced particle and VFX system for Maxon’s Cinema 4D. Its unique rule system of Questions and Actions enables complete control over particle simulations.
Part of our INSYDIUM Fused Collection, X-Particles is a fully-featured advanced particle and VFX system for Maxon’s Cinema 4D. Its unique rule system of Questions and Actions enables complete control over particle simulations.
Ben Miller as the long-suffering Bough is the perfect straight man. Their double-act — English’s reckless ego vs. Bough’s quiet competence — generates the film’s best running jokes. For a 90-minute film, Johnny English feels stretched. The plot is a thin skeleton for gags, and many of those gags are predictable or dated. The toilet humor (a flatulent bishop, a rude hand gesture) sits awkwardly next to Atkinson’s more elegant physical comedy.
★★½ (2.5/5) – A lightweight comedy that succeeds almost entirely on Rowan Atkinson’s physical genius. The Plot When Britain’s top spies are killed in a suspicious explosion, the underfunded and overlooked MI7 has no choice but to promote from within. Enter Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson), a bumbling, self-important desk jockey with delusions of grandeur. Armed with a vintage Aston Martin, a disastrously clueless sidekick (Ben Miller as Bough), and an absurd sense of patriotic duty, English is tasked with protecting the Crown Jewels. Naturally, he fails spectacularly. Johnny English 2003
Natalie Imbruglia as Lorna Campbell, a mysterious femme fatale, is charming but underserved. She has little to do other than look worried and eventually help English. John Malkovich hams it up as the villain, but even his scenery-chewing feels restrained — perhaps sensing the material isn’t sharp enough for full Malkovich madness. Ben Miller as the long-suffering Bough is the
If you love Atkinson, you’ll find moments to treasure. If you’re expecting Austin Powers or Hot Fuzz -level satire, you’ll leave disappointed. For a 90-minute film, Johnny English feels stretched
Rowan Atkinson completists, undemanding family viewing, and anyone who enjoys watching a man in a badly fitting suit try to eat a canapé with dignity.
You dislike slapstick, predictable plots, or French villains named Pascal.
Ben Miller as the long-suffering Bough is the perfect straight man. Their double-act — English’s reckless ego vs. Bough’s quiet competence — generates the film’s best running jokes. For a 90-minute film, Johnny English feels stretched. The plot is a thin skeleton for gags, and many of those gags are predictable or dated. The toilet humor (a flatulent bishop, a rude hand gesture) sits awkwardly next to Atkinson’s more elegant physical comedy.
★★½ (2.5/5) – A lightweight comedy that succeeds almost entirely on Rowan Atkinson’s physical genius. The Plot When Britain’s top spies are killed in a suspicious explosion, the underfunded and overlooked MI7 has no choice but to promote from within. Enter Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson), a bumbling, self-important desk jockey with delusions of grandeur. Armed with a vintage Aston Martin, a disastrously clueless sidekick (Ben Miller as Bough), and an absurd sense of patriotic duty, English is tasked with protecting the Crown Jewels. Naturally, he fails spectacularly.
Natalie Imbruglia as Lorna Campbell, a mysterious femme fatale, is charming but underserved. She has little to do other than look worried and eventually help English. John Malkovich hams it up as the villain, but even his scenery-chewing feels restrained — perhaps sensing the material isn’t sharp enough for full Malkovich madness.
If you love Atkinson, you’ll find moments to treasure. If you’re expecting Austin Powers or Hot Fuzz -level satire, you’ll leave disappointed.
Rowan Atkinson completists, undemanding family viewing, and anyone who enjoys watching a man in a badly fitting suit try to eat a canapé with dignity.
You dislike slapstick, predictable plots, or French villains named Pascal.
xpScatter enables you to scatter your objects over multiple scene geometry, from splines to parametric objects all at the same time.
The topology tab will enable you to distribute your scatter on landscape slope, height, and curvature to create realistic ecosystems.
Animate your growth by using textures, X-Particles modifiers, and Mograph effectors.
Use multiple display modes for fast viewport performance. You can even restrict the scatter of objects to within the camera field of vision for optimal efficiency.
Our time and custom spline retiming option give you fine control over playback. The new cache layers in xpCache enables you to lock and unlock to re-cache objects in your scene.
X-Particles is built seamlessly into Cinema 4D like it is part of the application. It’s compatible with the existing particle modifiers, object deformers, Mograph effectors, Hair module, native Thinking Particles, and works with the dynamics system in R14 and later.
If you know how to use the Mograph module, you already know how to use X-Particles, it's that easy.
X-Particles has the most advanced particle rendering solution on the market. It enables you to render particles, splines, smoke and fire, all within the Cinema 4D renderer. Included are a range of shaders for sprites, particle wet maps and skinning colors. You can even use sound to texture your objects.
Perfectly partnered with INSYDIUM’s Cycles 4D and also compatible with the following:
