The Introduction to Cinema 4D Course
Course
In London
Description
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Type
Intensive workshop
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Level
Beginner
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Location
London
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Class hours
24h
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Duration
3 Days
This 3 Day Maxon Certified Introduction Cinema 4D training course focuses on working with the powerful tools in Cinema 4D to help take your visual effects and motion graphics to the next level.
We start from the ground up teaching you how to: model, texture, animate, light and render 3D scenes in the fastest and most intuitive 3D application available today.
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About this course
- Interface and navigation
- Objects and Hierarchies
- Polygon and spline modelling
- Cameras animation and deformers
- Materials
- Textures and lights
- Bodypaint 3d
- Rendering and compositing
- Hypernurbs Modelling
- XPresso
This course is intended for designers who are looking to use Cinema 4D for 3D design and have little or no experience of the application currently.
Students should have the following prerequisite knowledge prior to attending the course:
- Delegates should have a sound understanding of 3D graphics.
Whilst there is no certification for this course, our trainers are industry-experienced Maxon Cinema 4D Instructors. Additionally, you will receive a certificate from Soho Editors upon completion of the course.
Firstly, we are long established as part of the post-production industry, and therefore have an excellent understanding of the market, and the skills that post-production staff need to have. We are not purely a training company, with other divisions of the group having a huge presence in the industry.
Secondly, unlike a lot of our competitors that provide training to the post-production industry, many of the courses we run are fully approved and certified, and will give you a recognised qualification if you pass the exam (more on this later).
We do not do general training – our courses are all industry specific, and we are experts in this field.
Thirdly, we're situated in the heart of London's post-production district – where better place to train on post-production technology?
Fourthly, the team here is friendly, helpful, efficient, understanding, flexible and approachable, and the trainers, as well as being all of the above, are fully qualified and certified, and all have significant industry experience and kudos as editors / talent in their own right.
The professional courses we run are usually Manufacturer Certified - the ones that aren't are still Industry Approved. This means that you will get certification or experience with the relevant manufacturer or software and proving your level of expertise if you pass the exam.
You can be assured of training to the highest possible standard, with your trainer being a qualified expert with significant current experience both professionally and as a trainer.
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Subjects
- Modelling
- Animation
- Lighting
- Rigging
- Compositing
- 3d training
- 3d animation
- Graphics
- Cinema
- 3D
Teachers and trainers (1)
John Williams
Trainer
Course programme
Lesson 1: Interface
- Understanding the Cinema 4D interface
- Navigating around the 3D World
- Essentials Tools and Menus
- Project set up
Lesson 2: Modelling
- Creating, moving and manipulating objects
- Extruding and stylising 3D text
- Working with splines
- Cloning objects
- Using subdivision surfaces
- The quick polygon modelling tools
- Making objects from Adobe illustrator artwork
Lesson 3: Deformers
- Applying and modifying deformers
- Bending and twisting
- Exploding and melting
- Animating deformers
Lesson 4: Materials
- Working with the materials manager
- Applying materials to objects
- Changing the colour and texture
- Creating reflections and transparency
- Adding noise and gradients
- Accessing the material library
Lesson 5: Animation
- Animation essentials
- Creating and modifying keyframes
- Using F Curves
- Animating Cameras
- Animating text
- Creating motion paths for objects
- Previewing animation
Lesson 6: Creating a Scene
- Adding a floor object
- Adding a physical sky
- Setting up the camera
- Working fast with preset scenes
Lesson 7: Lighting
- Types of lights
- Types of shadows
- Three point lighting set-up
Lesson 8: Rendering
- Render settings and the most efficient options
- Test renders and final renders
- Ambient occlusion
- Global illumination
- Post effects
Lesson 9: MoGraph
- True 3D motion graphics
- Building styles with cloners
- Using the plane effector
- Using the random effector
- Animating MoText
Lesson 10: After Effects Integration
- Working with Cineware
- Importing lights, and cameras into After Effects
- Final tweaks and compositing techniques in After effects
The Introduction to Cinema 4D Course