Introduction to Cinema 4D. A Beginner’s Animation Guide

On February 23, 2021

Release date:2021

Author:Don Mupasi X Visualdon

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Not Provided

The Ultimate Cinema 4D Guide for Beginners.

The class is for everyone and anyone that wants to learn how to use Cinema 4D. If you have never opened Cinema 4D before, or any other type of 3D application – you will be able to watch and follow along with everything in this class.

I will be sharing several tip & tricks to help you use Cinema 4D the right way, develop a fast and efficient workflow and several techniques that I have discovered during my own experience with Cinema 4D over the last 10 years. So even if you have some experience in Cinema 4D, there will be a lot of new things that you can pick up from watching this class.

Section 1: Aspects of Cinema 4D

Getting Started – An overview of menus, interface & objects in Cinema 4D. Shortcuts & project settings
Modelling – A look at various modelling tools & techniques, and where to find assets to use in your projects
Lighting – The light types in Cinema 4D & their settings, and how to light with purpose
Materials – How material channels work, and making stylised or realistic materials
Splines – How to draw paths, other path-based objects, and generating Geometry
MoGraph – An overview of Cinema 4D’s powerful ‘MoGraph’ section
Animation – How to make keyframes, working with timelines, keyframe interpolation
Cameras – Camera settings & the best way to do smooth & dynamic camera animations
Section 2: Example Project & Workflows

This section focuses on using everything learnt up to this point, and applying it to real projects. You will see a full worklow from working on the projects in Cinema 4D, and outputting them and finishing in After Effects. During this section we will continue to introduce new ideas and concepts as part of the process. The projects are:

Example Project 01 – Futuristic City Animation with several skyscrapers & flying cars

Example Project 02 – Sci-Fi Wormhole animation, looped animation.

By the end of the class you will be able to open Cinema 4D and create your own animations, let get started!

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01 introduction
02 navigation shortcuts
03 viewport options
04 installing plugins customizing ui
05 application and project settings
06 menu iitems
07 moving scaling rotating objects
08 object attributes and tags
09 coordinates and size options
10 object hierachies
11 modelling intro selection modes
12 modelling extrude extrude inner bevel tools
13 modelling subdividing edges
14 modelling adding loop cuts
15 lighting general light settings
16 lighting light fallof
17 lighting volumetrics and light rays
18 lighting the area light
19 lighting custom light shapes
20 lighting shadows
21 materials lighting setup
22 materials reflectance channel
23 materials using images in materials
24 materials bump and normal channels
25 materials concrete material breakdown
26 splines pen tool
27 splines types and intermediate points
28 splines text and splines
29 splines open illustator files
30 splines spline masks
31 splines sweep object
32 splines extrude object
33 splines loft and lathe nurbs
34 mograph cloner object
35 mograph random effector
36 mograph plain effector and fields
37 mograph voronoi fracture delay effector
38 mograph fracture and mo text
39 animation keyframes and timeline
40 animation animating along splines
41 cameras animating along splines
42 cameras morph camera
43 building the city
44 making the highways
45 making the cars
46 building materials and shaders
47 lighting the city
48 camera animation
49 optimizing render quality and speed
50 output using multi passes
51 composting in after effects
52 final export for instagram and youtube
53 bulding the wormhole
54 making the wormhole loop
55 animating the astronaut
56 lighting and render settings
57 composting in after effects final export
58 outro