Overview
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Explore the Cinema 4D workflow for visual effects (VFX). Learn how to use C4D R20 for tracking, lighting, rendering, compositing, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Cinema 4D for visual effects (VFX) artists
- Before you begin this course
- New features highlights
- Overview of VFX
- How is C4D used by VFX artists?
- Examples of work
- What is motion tracking?
- Using the Full Solve command
- The importance of shot analysis
- Set up a project for tracking
- Automatic 2D tracking
- Manual 2D tracking
- Refine tracking data
- Solve the 3D camera
- Create a coordinates system
- Calibrate a camera
- Solve with lens data
- Import and export tracked data
- Scene reconstruction
- Object tracking
- Solving an object tracked shot
- Integrate a model with the tracked shot
- Import OBJ and MTL files
- The philosophy of VFX modeling
- Optimize with Polygon Reduction and Level of Detail
- Animate geometry
- Animate cameras for shot previz
- Introduction to materials
- Create, modify, and apply materials
- Create a shadow catcher material
- Work with lights and shadows
- Lighting with Sky objects
- Work with Global Illumination and Ambient Occlusion
- What is Projection Man?
- Remove objects with Projection Man
- Baking textures
- Work with Voronoi Fracture
- Recursive fractures
- Paint fractures with hair
- Make fractures move with fields and dynamics
- Work with connectors and geometry glue
- Detail and texture fractures
- Prepare takes
- Render previews with tokens
- Set up multipass renders
- What is VFX compositing?
- Composite multipass renders
- Challenge overview
- Solution to challenge
- Next steps
