Maxon Cinema 4D Introduction Masterclass

This 4-day Masterclass course will give you all the skills you need to become a confident Cinema 4D user, even if you have no prior experience of working in 3D. We will show you everything from the basics of creating and manipulating simple objects all the way up to animating complex systems, adding realistic lighting effects, and optimising your projects.

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

• Navigate the Cinema 4D environment
• Create and manipulate objects
• Import content from other programs
• Apply textures to surfaces
• Animate basic and complex systems, including hair and fur
• Convert 2D to 3D with camera mapping
• Add realism with enhanced lighting techniques
• Render scenes to produce the final output
• 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.

• General interface
• Customising the interface to make life easier
• Navigation and object manipulation
• Complete interface tour

• Polygon tools
• Spline manipulation
• NURBS
• Deformers
• Working with imported CAD models
• Loading Adobe Illustrator paths
• Working to scale
• Polygon efficiency for faster renders

• Material channels
• File formats and their advantages
• Shaders - textures - animated textures
• Applying materials in the right place
• Reflections and Transparencies

• Keyframes
• Easing in and amooth motion
• Animating parameters
• Camera animations and walkthroughs
• Particle systems

• Cameras
• Lighting
• Shadows
• Lighting techniques
• 3 Point lighting
• Render settings and project set up
• Final render export
• Rendering animations

• Animation
• 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