Overview
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Learn the basics of Cinema 4D R21. Explore tools and techniques for creating professional 3D models and motion graphics and texturing, lighting, animating, and rendering your work.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Learning Cinema 4D R21
- Licensing Cinema 4D R21
- The new interface
- Touring the Cinema 4D (C4D) interface
- Core concepts for working with C4D
- Useful preferences and settings
- Chapter overview
- Creating and manipulating objects
- Additional object creation methods
- Compose the frame
- Working with lights and shadows
- Create the infinite floor look
- Create and apply materials
- Make finishing touches
- Rendering a still image
- Chapter overview
- Illustrator import
- Create geometry from splines
- Animate the logo with MoGraph
- Animate with the Camera Morph tag
- Create materials and lights
- Add depth and detail with layered materials
- Animate and render splines
- Prepare the scene for rendering with takes
- Composite with multipasses
- Next steps
