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This course is a great start for students who are new to Broadcast or motion design or transitioning from different 3D software packages . We adopt a simple production-based training methodology and our students gain valuable inside knowledge from our years of hands-on experience in 3D Broadcast and motion design.
INTRODUCTION TO CINEMA 4D (1 Day)
•The R16 interface
•Understanding the 3D World
•Navigating around the Object Views
•Coordinate Systems
•Select, Move, Scale, And Rotate
•Object Hierarchy And Parenting
MODELLING (2 Days)
•Creating and manipulating objects
•Creating and understanding splines
•Modelling a camera
•Modelling a speaker
•Cloning objects
•Polygon modelling tools
•Extruding and stylizing 3D text
DEFORMERS (1 Day)
•Applying deformers
•Bending and twisting
•Exploding objects
•Melting objects
CREATING A SCENE (1 Day)
•Adding a floor object
•Adding a physical sky
•Setting up the camera
•Using preset scenes
INTRODUCTION TO MOGRAPH (2 Day)
•Creating MoText
•Using Cloners
•PolyFX
•Fracture
•MoInstance
EFFECTORS (1 Day)
•Plain
•Delay
•Formula
•Random
•Inheritance
•Spline
•Step
•Time
•Volume
DYNAMICS (1 Day)
•Making objects fall with gravity
•Rigid Bodies
•Soft Bodies
•Colider bodies
•Dynamic Collisions
•Creating dynamic hierarchies
LIGHTING (1 Day)
•Types of lights
•Types of shadows
•A three point lighting set-up
•Light textures and projections
•Global illumination
•Ambient occlusion
ANIMATION (2 Day)
•Animation essentials
•Working with Keyframes
•Animating simple objects
•Refining animation
•Animating text
•Creating an animation path for your object
•Previewing animation
WORKING WITH MATERIALS (1 Days)
•Applying materials to an object
•Changing the colour and texture
•Creating reflections and transparency
•Add noise and gradients
•Using the new material library
RENDERING/EXPORTING (1 Day)
•Rendering settings
•Rendering for print
•Rendering for video
•Rendering with Alpha Channels
•Exporting to different formats (MOV, AVI, TIFF, Other Image sequences)
•Exporting for After Effects
LOGO ANIMATION AND EXTERNAL COMPOSITION (1 Day)
•Creating spline from illustrator or Corel Draw
•Exporting custom splines into cinema 4D
•Creating logo from splines
•Animating and rendering logo
•Exporting renders to after effects for composition
•Colour corrections in After effects
•Rendering out final output from after effects
Final exam, student assessment and graduation (1 Day)