Overview
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Learn the basics of motion graphics as they apply to Cinema 4D. Discover how to use typography, color, textures, lighting, and transitions and the rich mograph toolset in C4D.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Motion graphics in Cinema 4D
- What you should know
- Project settings in Cinema 4D
- Motion graphic breakdown
- Creative process: File organization
- Creative process: Motion graphics
- Intro to primitive objects
- Intro to splines and generators
- Importing Illustrator files
- Applying deformers
- Intro to typography
- Choose wisely: Typefaces
- Animating type with MoText
- Intro to color theory
- Understanding materials
- Setting up color relationships in Cinema 4D
- Applying multiple materials to geometry
- Applying graphics to materials
- Adding textures with shaders
- Recoloring textured Cloner objects
- Intro to lighting
- Lighting for shiny, slick looking graphics
- Creating 2D sketch style graphics
- Duplicate and repeat with cloners
- Camera animation
- 3D transitions
- Robotic animation
- Bounce and overshoot
- Custom speed changes
- Export using the Picture Viewer
- Next steps
