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8/28/2013- What is CINEMA 4D Lite?
- Understanding the CINEMA 4D Lite and After Effects CC workflow
- Editing primitive objects
- Spline modeling with NURBS
- Animating with keyframes
- Using Xpresso to link properties
- Importing music and soundtracks
- Creating and animating cameras
- Working with text
- Scripting
- Creating and applying materials and textures
- 3D camera tracking
- Compositing layers
- Lighting with visible lights and ambient occlusion
- Adding visual effects in After Effects
- Rendering in After Effects and the Adobe Media Encoder
Skill Level Beginner
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- [Voiceover] Hi, I'm Angie Taylor, author, illustrator, and motion graphic designer. I started my professional career with a degree in sculpture and drawing, so I've always had an interest in creating 3D forms. Now, although I've always wanted to learn a 3D application, to be honest, I found the ones I tried intimidating, unintuitive, and overly technical. That's until I was introduced to Cinema 4D a few years ago by a good friend who also lived in Brighton, Tim Clapham.
As I learned, I discovered the differences between After Effects and Cinema 4D and I managed to figure out ways of understanding these differences, so that my skills could easily be transferred from one application to the other. When I learned that After Effects CC included a Lite version of Cinema 4D, I was really keen to help other After Effects users like me get the most out of this powerful software combination. This course is squarely aimed at people with an After Effects background who want to get their head round working in a true 3D environment.
The intention is to provide a good, solid understanding of Cinema 4D Lite by building a complete motion graphic sequence. Topics include how to work between Cinema 4D Lite and After Effects using the very powerful Cineware plugin. You'll also learn various modeling tips and tricks in Cinema 4D Lite, in order to create a model of a robot. We'll then animate the robot and apply materials to its body parts, to create realistic shadows, reflections, and refractions.
You'll find out how to work with cameras, lights, and various objects within Cinema 4D Lite. I'll even have you writing expressive scripts to speed up your animation processes. Once we've completed the work in Cinema 4D, I'll share some ideas on how After Effects can be used for post-production, visual effects, and color correction of your Cinema 4D scenes. We'll even learn how to track cameras from real footage so that we can place new 3D elements within an existing video scene.
I hope that after watching these tutorials and following along with the exercises, you'll love the Cinema 4D Lite and After Effects combo just as much as I do.
Q: This course was updated on 01/15/2015. What changed?
A: We updated movies in chapter 5, 10, and 12, and added a new set of exercise files to make the course compatible with the latest versions of After Effects CC (2014.1) and CINEWARE. Watch the "Checking out the new CINEWARE features with After Effects CC 2014.1" movie for an overview of the changes.
Q: This course was updated on 04/08/2016. What changed?
A: We added one new movie and updated the rest of the tutorials in chapter 8, "Materials and Textures in CINEMA 4D Lite."
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Introduction
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Welcome2m 18s
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1. What Is CINEMA 4D Lite?
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What is CINEMA 4D Lite?4m 23s
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What CINEMA 4D Lite can't do6m 54s
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Quick interface tour8m 46s
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2. CINEMA 4D Lite and After Effects CC Workflow
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The CINEWARE plugin settings4m 42s
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3. Modeling in CINEMA 4D Lite
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Editing primitive objects5m 18s
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The Move and Scale tools7m 17s
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The Rotate tool4m 27s
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Axis limitations1m 45s
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Working cylinders7m 15s
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Adjusting NURBS settings4m 6s
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Using nulls as controllers3m 33s
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4. Animating in CINEMA 4D Lite
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Understanding rotation2m 39s
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Timeline shortcuts3m 1s
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Copying keyframes2m 3s
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Keyframe interpolation5m 20s
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Adjusting F-Curves5m 45s
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Holding values5m 8s
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Animating using presets4m 32s
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5. Working with Cameras in After Effects CC and CINEMA 4D Lite
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Adding markers4m 25s
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6. Working with Text in After Effects CC and CINEMA 4D Lite
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Formatting text in CINEMA 4D5m 47s
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Merging CINEMA 4D files5m 51s
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The MoGraph Random Effector3m 56s
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7. Scripting and Expressions in CINEMA 4D Lite
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Creating a wiggle expression7m 49s
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The Reset Position script4m 19s
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8. Materials and Textures in CINEMA 4D Lite
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Introduction to materials1m 45s
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Custom materials8m 48s
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Environment channel3m 33s
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Adding texture with shaders4m 23s
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Built-in material presets3m 52s
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Combining materials2m 41s
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9. Creating Environments in After Effects CC
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10. Layer-Based Compositing with CINEWARE
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11. Lighting Your Scene with CINEMA 4D Lite
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Using preset lighting setups6m 24s
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Creating visible lights7m 56s
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12. Multipass Compositing with CINEWARE
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Adding object buffers4m 51s
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Adjusting reflections5m 23s
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13. Visual Effects with After Effects CC
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Extracting 3D scene data8m 11s
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Working with proxies10m 2s
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Color correction of shadows4m 10s
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Layer styles3m 50s
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Adjustment layers4m 58s
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14. Rendering in After Effects CC and Media Encoder
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The BG Renderer script4m 14s
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