Overview
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Want to play video on objects in your After Effects animations? Learn how to map video onto the face of 3D objects with CINEMA 4D Lite, and then composite animated 3D text over it.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Registering and updating C4D Lite
- C4D Lite user interface overview
- After Effects project and composition settings
- C4D Lite project and render settings
- Creating a rectangular spline
- Extruding and beveling the spline
- Checking your work
- Loading a lighting preset
- Applying a material preset
- Creating a custom material
- Mapping a material to a surface
- Creating a camera
- Animating a camera move
- Refining the camera move
- Taming specular highlights
- Reducing luminance clipping
- Increasing the shadow density
- Render quality
- Extracting the camera move
- Creating 3D text in After Effects
- Applying a text animation preset
- Production challenges
- Converting a parametric object to polygons
- Creating a placeholder
- Assigning an object buffer
- Compositing tricks
