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Learn how to enhance your designs—and streamline your overall workflow—with Cinema 4D, the essential tool for motion graphics artists and designers.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Cinema 4D Weekly
Cinema 4D Weekly
  • Text inflation animations
  • Intro to Morph deformer
  • Intro to subsurface scattering in Cinema 4D (C4D)
  • Subsurface scattering in OctaneRender
  • Intro to Cinema 4D R20 fields
  • Intro to R20 volumes
  • Intro to decay and delay fields in R20
  • Mesh morphs with fields and volumes
  • Creating material wipes using fields
  • Interactive render region for OctaneRender
  • Viewing the speed graph in C4D
  • Creating realistic noise-based materials
  • Follow-through and overlapping animation
  • Procedural growth animation
  • Rigging and animating a 3D character in minutes with Mixamo
  • Easy melt simulations in C4D
  • Fading objects with effectors
  • Onion skinning in C4D
  • Blueprint renders using Sketch and Toon
  • Baking Mixamo animation into motion clips
  • Mixing Mixamo animation with motion xlips
  • Must-know Xpresso
  • Looping animation applied to effectors
  • Intro to C4D sculpting tools
  • Creating glTF files for AR and VR
  • Intro to IK rigging
  • Intro to rigging with joints
  • Using deformers for character animation
  • Rigging simple objects with FFDs
  • Animation smears
  • Cartoon mouth rig using Spline IK
  • Add watermarks or timecodes to renders
  • Intro to the Doodle tool
  • Faster renders using Physical Renderer
  • Using bendy limbs rig for C4D
  • Automatic walk cycles using CMotion
  • Rigging mouth using clusters
  • Cartoon eyeball rig
  • Intro to IK dynamics
  • Worfklow enhancers: selection object
  • Creating clay renders
  • Three ways to animate splines
  • Selecting every other clone or polygon
  • Blending Mixamo motion capture animation
  • Using pivot objects and Mixamo motion capture
  • Model a cartoon hand
  • Introduction to collision deformer
  • Using connectors and dynamics
  • Dynamic connections between objects
  • Creating a dynamic spring rig
  • Triggering cloth dynamics
  • Model faster with Tweak mode
  • Paint objects onto a surface
  • Text inflation animations
  • Intro to Morph deformer
  • Intro to subsurface scattering in Cinema 4D (C4D)
  • Subsurface scattering in OctaneRender
  • Intro to C4D sculpting tools
  • Making Symmetrical and Radial Polygon Selections
  • Rendering Caustics in Redshift
  • Creating an iridescent metal shader in Redshift
  • Timeline Workflow Tips
  • Painting worn edges with vertex maps
  • Speeding up your animation workflow with timeline markers
  • How to sculpt cloth wrinkles using deformers
  • How to draw splines on a surface
  • Real-time cartoon outlines in the viewport
  • Workflow enhancer: Interaction tag
  • Tips for fixing jittery dynamics
  • 5 C4D preferences you absolutely should change
  • Rigging splines with IK-spline
  • How to easily select anything in your viewport
  • Tips for better sketch and toon renders
  • Using the Cinema 4D color wheel to easily create color harmonies
  • Easily edit Mixamo animations using motion layers
  • Create a squash and stretch rig using joints
  • Using gobos in Redshift
  • Using color swatches in Cinema 4D
  • Make your splines and points easier to see with this setting
  • Intro to alembic workflows
  • Fixing bad weighting using Delta Mush
  • Creating Dolly and Zoom camera moves in C4D
  • Light faster with Lighting Tool
  • Creating custom Redshift node presets in Cinema 4D
  • Record mouse movement into keyframes
  • Tip for working with gradients in C4D
  • Using custom object icons
  • Creating realistic camera shake
  • Adding variation to cloth dynamics
  • Light faster using Set Active Object as Camera
  • Create looping walk cycles with Motion Clips
  • Mapping custom shortcut keys

Taught by

EJ Hassenfratz

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