Cinema 4D Apprentice

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Table of Contents
5. Introduction
6. Getting Started
7. Pre-Roll
   1. Exploring the World of CINEMA 4D
      1. CINEMA 4D scene
      2. command groups
      3. command palettes
      4. object manager
      5. attribute, coordinate, and material managers
      6. layer manager and content browser
      7. viewport
      8. view menu and cameras menu
      9. display menu and options menu
      10. filter tab and panel menu
      11. project settings
      12. preferences
      13. menus
      14. new in R16! motion tracker menu
8. Cameras in CINEMA 4D
   1. Coming to grips with cameras
      1. camera basics
      2. animating the camera
      3. camera switching using the stage object
      4. rendering the scene
      5. animating cameras using paths and targets
      6. stereoscopic cameras in CINEMA 4D
9. Modeling Basics
   1. Working with the basic building blocks
      1. polygonal modeling
      2. bevel tool
      3. extrude tool
      4. axis center tool
      5. sublime splines
      6. extrude nurbs
      7. sweep nurbs
      8. loft nurbs
      9. boolean modeling
      10. spline masks
      11. lathe nurbs
10. Materials
    1. Getting the most out of custom materials and C4D internal Shaders
       1. starting out with materials
       2. creating set selections
       3. stick texture tag
       4. cubic solution
       5. brick shader
       6. shader central
       7. grass shader
       8. pavement shader
       9. bump channel
       10. displacement channel
       11. planet Shaders
       12. danel and tiling Shaders
       13. mabel Shader
       14. layer Shader
       15. shading an interior scene
       16. BodyPaint
11. Lights
    1. Lighting from A to Z
       1. lighting basics
       2. shadow maps
       3. hard shadows
       4. area shadows
       5. inverse volumetrics
       6. infinite lights
       7. area lights
       8. ies lights
       9. lighting an exterior scene
       10. lighting an interior scene
       11. ambient occlusion
       12. global illumination
       13. lighting an interior scene with gi
       14. lighting a product with traditional techniques
       15. image-based lighting
       16. creating a gi lighting rig
12. Animation
    1. Animation basics
       1. getting started with animation
       2. animation preferences
       3. editing keyframes
       4. animation paths/advanced power slider
       5. animation timeline
       6. editing animation with f-curves
       7. animating materials
       8. looping animation
       9. motion clips
       10. align to spline
       11. rail splines
       12. point level animation
       13. animation layers
       14. old fashioned motion graphics
13. Rendering
    1. 3D to 2D
       1. rendering the viewport
       2. interactive render region
       3. picture viewer
       4. render settings
       5. anti-aliasing
       6. options
       7. ambient occlusion
       8. caustics
       9. cel rendering
       10. depth of field
       11. highlights
       12. vector motion blur
       13. global illumination
       14. multi-pass rendering
       15. physical render engine
       16. physical camera
       17. sketch and toon
       18. team render
14. MoGraph
    1. Motion graphics and beyond
       1. cloners
       2. mograph selections
       3. parameters tab
       4. random effector
       5. plain effector
       6. target effector
       7. inheritance effector
       8. shader effector
       9. sound effector
       10. mograph objects and deformers
       11. fracture object
       12. tracer object
       13. mospline object
       14. polyfx
15. Video Integration
    1. CINEWARE, After Effects, and motion tracking
       1. cineware
       2. multi-pass in cineware
       3. extracting 3D data
       4. camera tracking in after effects
       5. exporting 3D cameras from after effects to c4d
       6. multi-pass to create a shadow catcher in after effects
       7. compositing and external compositing tags
       8. combining imagery with cg
       9. matte object/object buffers
       10. using the composite tag with cineware
       11. motion tracker
       12. importing footage into motion tracker
       13. performing the 2D tracking solve
       14. 3D tracking solve and creation of camera
       15. importing 3D elements
       16. using the lighting tool
16. Visual Effects in C4D
    1. Dynamics, character creation, and more
       1. rigid body tag
       2. dynamics and mograph
       3. soft body tag
       4. cloth engine
       5. using vertex maps to weight cloth
       6. wind and cloth dynamics to turn the page
       7. particles
       8. pyrocluster
       9. character modeling via the sculpt tool
       10. using masks in the sculpt tool
       11. using stamps in the sculpt tool
       12. baking displacement and normal maps
       13. hair and fur
       14. character rigging with the character object
       15. weight tool
       16. pose morph tag
17. Final Project
    1. Using MoGraph along with dynamics to create a broadcast intro
       1. part 1: modeling, texturing, and prepping
       2. creating trade floor displays
       3. creating the city buildings
       4. a look at the MoGraph…graph
       5. wall street
       6. part 2: animation via MoGraph
       7. part 3: staging and rendering
18. Index