Maxon Cinema 4D Intermediate

This 2-day Intermediate course will take your existing Cinema 4D knowledge to the next level as we discuss more advanced 3D designs and character animations. Join us as we discover how to control advanced animations, apply better lighting, and speed up rendering.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Animate complex systems such as hair and fur
• Convert 2D to 3D with camera mapping
• Add realism with enhanced lighting techniques
• Improve rendering speed by applying efficient adjustments
• Manage layers, preferences, and exports

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

• Mograph motion graphics tool kit
• Dynamics physics engine
• Flowing hair and fur
• Xpresso automated motion
• Real time motion capture
• Particle effects

• Global illumination lighting
• Ambient occlusion automatic shadows
• Convert 2D photos to 3D models with camera mapping
• Studio lighting rigs
• HDRI 32-bit panoramas
• Area lights and shadows
• Image-based automatic lighting

• Adjusting sampling rates
• Creating track matte alphas for post editing
• Depth & motion vectors for DOF and motion blur
• Polygon reduction

• Sketch and Toon for pencil and technical diagrams
• When to use 16 and 32-bit formats for higher quality
• HyperNURBS sculpting
• Working with the HUD
• Layer management
• Setting default preferences
• Multipass Photoshop export
• Compositing photo and video background plates
• Cleaning up imported meshes

• Free web resources
• Plugins
• Training material - tutorials
• Expectations from advanced level course
• Online communities