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Cinema 4D MasterClass A Beginner Guide for Animation

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Cinema 4D MasterClass – A Beginners Guide for Animation, available at $49.99, has an average rating of 4.33, with 56 lectures, based on 6 reviews, and has 41 subscribers.

You will learn about Fundamentals of Cinema 4D – Getting started in Cinema 4D, Menus, Object Types, Project Settings etc Modelling – Modelling tools and how they work, good modelling practices Lighting – Light types & how to lighting a with a purpose Materials – Create using built in effects or with custom image maps. Learn how the Reflectance channel in Cinema 4D Works Animation – Creating keframes, how keyframe interpolation works. Working with timeline window in Cinema 4D Cameras – How to create dynamic & smooth camera animations. Using splines as guides or using the Morph camera. Mograph – Cinema 4Ds powerful Mograph section. The Cloner object, effector & falloff fields. Fracture and other mograph objects Splines – How to draw splines, spline types. Learn what Intermediate points are. How to convert splines to geometry. Import paths from Photoshop or illustrator. This course is ideal for individuals who are Everyone and anyone that wants to learn Cinema 4D from scratch. or Existing Cinema 4D users that want to expand their knowledge of the program or Users of the 3D software that are interested in switching to Cinema 4D It is particularly useful for Everyone and anyone that wants to learn Cinema 4D from scratch. or Existing Cinema 4D users that want to expand their knowledge of the program or Users of the 3D software that are interested in switching to Cinema 4D.

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Title: Cinema 4D MasterClass – A Beginners Guide for Animation

Price: $49.99

Average Rating: 4.33

Number of Lectures: 56

Number of Published Lectures: 56

Number of Curriculum Items: 56

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 56

Original Price: £54.99

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What You Will Learn

  • Fundamentals of Cinema 4D – Getting started in Cinema 4D, Menus, Object Types, Project Settings etc
  • Modelling – Modelling tools and how they work, good modelling practices
  • Lighting – Light types & how to lighting a with a purpose
  • Materials – Create using built in effects or with custom image maps. Learn how the Reflectance channel in Cinema 4D Works
  • Animation – Creating keframes, how keyframe interpolation works. Working with timeline window in Cinema 4D
  • Cameras – How to create dynamic & smooth camera animations. Using splines as guides or using the Morph camera.
  • Mograph – Cinema 4Ds powerful Mograph section. The Cloner object, effector & falloff fields. Fracture and other mograph objects
  • Splines – How to draw splines, spline types. Learn what Intermediate points are. How to convert splines to geometry. Import paths from Photoshop or illustrator.
  • Who Should Attend

  • Everyone and anyone that wants to learn Cinema 4D from scratch.
  • Existing Cinema 4D users that want to expand their knowledge of the program
  • Users of the 3D software that are interested in switching to Cinema 4D
  • Target Audiences

  • Everyone and anyone that wants to learn Cinema 4D from scratch.
  • Existing Cinema 4D users that want to expand their knowledge of the program
  • Users of the 3D software that are interested in switching to Cinema 4D
  • The Ultimate Cinema 4D Guide for Beginners.

    The class is for everyone and anyone that wants to learn how to use Cinema 4D. If you have never opened Cinema 4D before, or any other type of 3D application – you will be able to watch and follow along with everything in this class.

    I will be sharing several tip & tricks to help you use Cinema 4D the right way, develop a fast and efficient workflow and several techniques that I have discovered during my own experience with Cinema 4D over the last 10 years.So even if you have some experience in Cinema 4D, there will be a lot of new things that you can pick up from watching this class.

    This roughly 8-hour long class split is organised into 2 general sections. Section 1 covers various topics and tools in Cinema 4D. Section 2 is about developing workflows and working on real projects as examples. Watch the whole thing and by the end of it you will be able to open Cinema 4D and start creating your own animation today!

    Section 1: Aspects of Cinema 4D

  • Getting Started – An overview of menus, interface & objects in Cinema 4D. Shortcuts & project settings

  • Modelling – A look at various modelling tools & techniques, and where to find assets to use in your projects

  • Lighting – The light types in Cinema 4D & their settings, and how to light with purpose

  • Materials – How material channels work, and making stylised or realistic materials

  • Splines – How to draw paths, other path-based objects, and generating Geometry

  • MoGraph – An overview of Cinema 4D’s powerful ‘MoGraph’ section

  • Animation – How to make keyframes, working with timelines, keyframe interpolation

  • Cameras – Camera settings & the best way to do smooth & dynamic camera animations

  • Section 2: Example Project & Workflows

    This section focuses on using everything learnt up to this point, and applying it to real projects. You will see a full worklow from working on the projects in Cinema 4D, and outputting them and finishing in After Effects. During this section we will continue to introduce new ideas and concepts as part of the process. The projects are:

    Example Project 01 –Futuristic City Animation with several skyscrapers & flying cars

    Example Project 02 – Sci-Fi Wormhole animation, looped animation.

    By the end of the class you will be able to open Cinema 4D and create your own animations, let get started!

    Course Curriculum

    Chapter 1: Getting Started

    Lecture 1: Navigation Shortcuts

    Lecture 2: Viewport Options

    Lecture 3: Installing Plugins, Customizing UI

    Lecture 4: Application & Project Settings

    Lecture 5: Menu Items

    Lecture 6: Moving, Scaling, Rotating Objects

    Lecture 7: Object Attributes & Tags

    Lecture 8: Coordinates & Size Options

    Lecture 9: Object Hierachies

    Chapter 2: Modelling

    Lecture 1: Introduction, Selection Modes

    Lecture 2: Extrude, Extrude Inner & Bevel Tools

    Lecture 3: Subdiving Edges

    Lecture 4: Loop Path Cuts, Edge To Splines Tools

    Chapter 3: Lighting

    Lecture 1: General Light Settings

    Lecture 2: Light Falloff

    Lecture 3: Volumetrics & Light Rays

    Lecture 4: The Area Light

    Lecture 5: Custom Light Shapes

    Lecture 6: Shadow Types & Settings

    Chapter 4: Materials

    Lecture 1: Lighting Setup

    Lecture 2: Reflectance Channel

    Lecture 3: Using Images in Materials

    Lecture 4: Bump & Normal Channels

    Lecture 5: Concret Floor Material Breakdown

    Chapter 5: Splines

    Lecture 1: The Pen Tool

    Lecture 2: Spline Types & Intermediate Points

    Lecture 3: Text & Other Paremetric Splines

    Lecture 4: Open Illustrator & Photoshop Paths

    Lecture 5: Spline Masks

    Lecture 6: The Sweep Object

    Lecture 7: The Extrude Object

    Lecture 8: Loft & Lathe Nurbs

    Chapter 6: Mograph

    Lecture 1: Clonner Object

    Lecture 2: Random Effector

    Lecture 3: Plain Effector & Falloff Fields

    Lecture 4: Voronoi Fracture & Delay Effector

    Lecture 5: Fracture & MoText

    Chapter 7: Animation

    Lecture 1: Making Keyframes & Interpolation

    Lecture 2: Animating Objects On Splines

    Chapter 8: Cameras

    Lecture 1: Animating Along Splines

    Lecture 2: Camera Morph Animation

    Chapter 9: Example Project 01 – Futuristic City Scene

    Lecture 1: Building The City

    Lecture 2: Making The Highways

    Lecture 3: Making The Cars

    Lecture 4: Building Materials & Shaders

    Lecture 5: Lighting The City

    Lecture 6: Camera Animation

    Lecture 7: Optimizing Render Quality & Speed

    Lecture 8: Output Using Multi Passes

    Lecture 9: Compositing In After Effects

    Lecture 10: Final Export For Instagram & Youtube

    Chapter 10: Example Project 02 – Wormhole Loop Animation

    Lecture 1: Building The Wormhole

    Lecture 2: Making The Wormhole Loop

    Lecture 3: Animating The Astronaut

    Lecture 4: Lighting & Render Settings

    Lecture 5: Compositing In After Effects, Final Render

    Instructors

  • Cinema 4D MasterClass A Beginner Guide for Animation  No.2
    Don Mupasi
    Visual Artist
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