Mograph Techniques: Movie Trailer Titles in Cinema 4D and After Effects

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Free Online Course: Mograph Techniques: Movie Trailer Titles in Cinema 4D and After Effects provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Mograph Techniques: Movie Trailer Titles in Cinema 4D and After Effects is taught by EJ Hassenfratz.

Overview
  • Learn how to create Hollywood-style movie trailer title sequences with CINEMA 4D and After Effects.

    Learn to create dynamic Hollywood-style title sequences for movie trailers, using the tools in CINEMA 4D. EJ Hassenfratz shows how to create attention-grabbing text elements, apply textures and lighting, and animate the titles in styles that suit two different genres: action flicks and fantasy films. Then you'll learn how to render the scene and bring the assets into After Effects, in order to composite them with live-action footage and preview the final trailers. These tutorials follow a real-world workflow, used in many of the leading Hollywood production studios.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • Using the exercise files
    • Choosing the right version of CINEMA 4D
    1. Designing Action- and Fantasy-Movie Text
    • Exploring trends with movie-trailer-title design
    • Creating action-movie titles using Sweep NURBS
    • Modeling fantasy-movie titles with a chisel technique
    • Using an alternative, manual chisel technique
    2. Texturing and Lighting Text
    • Texturing the action-movie title
    • Lighting the action-movie title
    • Texturing the fantasy-movie title
    • Lighting the fantasy-movie title
    3. Text and Camera Animation
    • Animating the action-movie title with the Random and Shader effectors
    • Animating the camera for the action-movie title
    • Animating the fantasy-movie title with the Random and Shader effectors
    • Animating the camera for the fantasy-movie title
    4. Setting Up for Rendering
    • Adding lens-flare lights with Xpresso
    • Setting up the action-movie title for rendering
    • Setting up the fantasy-movie title for rendering
    5. Compositing the Action-Movie Title in After Effects
    • Importing assets and compositing passes in After Effects
    • Adding optical flares with the Video Copilot Optical Flares plugin
    • Adding motion blur and color correction
    6. Compositing the Fantasy-Movie Title in After Effects
    • Importing assets and compositing passes in After Effects
    • Compositing over footage of clouds
    • Adding motion blur, depth of field, and lens flares
    • Incorporating color correction and finishing
    Conclusion
    • Next steps