book

Cinema 4D Apprentice

by Kent McQuilkin

April 2015

Beginner

414 pages

16h 30m

English

Routledge

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Exploring the World of CINEMA 4DCINEMA 4D scenecommand groupscommand palettesobject managerattribute, coordinate, and material managerslayer manager and content browserviewportview menu and cameras menudisplay menu and options menufilter tab and panel menuproject settingspreferencesmenusnew in R16! motion tracker menu
Coming to grips with camerascamera basicsanimating the cameracamera switching using the stage objectrendering the sceneanimating cameras using paths and targetsstereoscopic cameras in CINEMA 4D
Working with the basic building blockspolygonal modelingbevel toolextrude toolaxis center toolsublime splinesextrude nurbssweep nurbsloft nurbsboolean modelingspline maskslathe nurbs
Getting the most out of custom materials and C4D internal Shadersstarting out with materialscreating set selectionsstick texture tagcubic solutionbrick shadershader centralgrass shaderpavement shaderbump channeldisplacement channelplanet Shadersdanel and tiling Shadersmabel Shaderlayer Shadershading an interior sceneBodyPaint

Lighting from A to Zlighting basicsshadow mapshard shadowsarea shadowsinverse volumetricsinfinite lightsarea lightsies lightslighting an exterior scenelighting an interior sceneambient occlusionglobal illuminationlighting an interior scene with gilighting a product with traditional techniquesimage-based lightingcreating a gi lighting rig
Animation basicsgetting started with animationanimation preferencesediting keyframesanimation paths/advanced power slideranimation timelineediting animation with f-curvesanimating materialslooping animationmotion clipsalign to splinerail splinespoint level animationanimation layersold fashioned motion graphics
3D to 2Drendering the viewportinteractive render regionpicture viewerrender settingsanti-aliasingoptionsambient occlusioncausticscel renderingdepth of fieldhighlightsvector motion blurglobal illuminationmulti-pass renderingphysical render enginephysical camerasketch and toonteam render
Motion graphics and beyondclonersmograph selectionsparameters tabrandom effectorplain effectortarget effectorinheritance effectorshader effectorsound effectormograph objects and deformersfracture objecttracer objectmospline objectpolyfx
CINEWARE, After Effects, and motion trackingcinewaremulti-pass in cinewareextracting 3D datacamera tracking in after effectsexporting 3D cameras from after effects to c4dmulti-pass to create a shadow catcher in after effectscompositing and external compositing tagscombining imagery with cgmatte object/object buffersusing the composite tag with cinewaremotion trackerimporting footage into motion trackerperforming the 2D tracking solve3D tracking solve and creation of cameraimporting 3D elementsusing the lighting tool
Dynamics, character creation, and morerigid body tagdynamics and mographsoft body tagcloth engineusing vertex maps to weight clothwind and cloth dynamics to turn the pageparticlespyroclustercharacter modeling via the sculpt toolusing masks in the sculpt toolusing stamps in the sculpt toolbaking displacement and normal mapshair and furcharacter rigging with the character objectweight toolpose morph tag
Using MoGraph along with dynamics to create a broadcast intropart 1: modeling, texturing, and preppingcreating trade floor displayscreating the city buildingsa look at the MoGraph…graphwall streetpart 2: animation via MoGraphpart 3: staging and rendering