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Explore the Cinema 4D workflow for visual effects (VFX). Learn how to use C4D R23 for tracking, lighting, rendering, compositing, and more.
Cinema 4D has become an essential tool in the production pipeline and offers a fantastic set of features for building visual effects (VFX). In this course, you can explore the Cinema 4D workflow for creating VFX and integrating them into live action shots. Instructor Andy Needham starts with an overview of VFX, including inspiring examples you may have seen in major Hollywood films. He discusses the importance of motion tracking and gets hands on, showing how to track and solve a shot using the C4D Motion Tracker. He also covers exporting and importing data in various industry-standard formats, creating materials, and lighting 3D shots. Plus, Andy shows how to break apart objects with Voronoi Fracture and set up and composite multipass renders. When youâre ready, you can take the challenge at the end of the course to test your new skills.
Overview
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Cinema 4D for VFX artists
- Before you begin this course
- Using the exercise files
- Overview of VFX
- How is C4D used by VFX artists?
- Setting up C4D
- What is motion tracking?
- Using the Full Solve command
- The importance of shot analysis
- Automatic 2D tracking
- Manual 2D tracking
- Refine tracking data
- Solve the 3D camera
- Create a coordinates system
- The object tracking workflow
- Solving an object tracked shot
- Integrate a model with the tracked shot
- Scene reconstruction
- Import and export tracked data
- Working with Voronoi fracture
- Making fractures dynamic
- Detailing and texturing fractures
- Baking textures
- Asset creation from materials
- Create particle systems
- Working with lights and sky objects
- Apply GI and AO effects
- The power of the Compositing Tag
- Set up a multipass render
- Compositing multipass renders
- Work with Cineware in After Effects
- Send After Effects tracking data to C4D
- Challenge overview
- Solution
- Next steps
