From the course: Mograph Techniques: Animating with C4D Effectors
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Setting up to render for After Effects (AE)
From the course: Mograph Techniques: Animating with C4D Effectors
Setting up to render for After Effects (AE)
Since you can bring CINEMA 4D camera data into After Effects, you want to plan ahead on what kind of effects and 3D scene data you will need for finishing inside of After Effects. You also want to take stock of all the render passes needed to ensure that you only need to be rendering out of CINEMA 4D once. So the first thing we are going to need to do is you're going to need to place a null object in our scene in this 3D space that can be used inside of After Effects to place our 2D text that will have all the retail information on shows and times for our fake PIXEL TV network. So to do this we're going to add a null, and we're going to get out of this Morph Camera view by just unchecking the view button, and I can move around freely in the viewport. I'm going to position this null so it's just a little bit in front of the cube grid. I'm just going to move it over here. It doesn't really matter so much as where it is in X and Y space, but just making sure that it's placed correctly in…
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