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Using lighting in the C4D renderer

Using lighting in the C4D renderer - After Effects Tutorial

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Using lighting in the C4D renderer

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- The Cinema 4D Renderer in AfterEffects allows for the extrusion of 3D shapes and text. By adding lighting, we can have a dramatic impact on the way our objects look, as well as even enable reflections. In this movie, we're going to see how we can give our composition a lot of dimension specifically in this renderer. So I'm here in my Chapter 2_6 composition, and what you should know about this is it is actually using a Cinema 4D Renderer. If you go to the top right-hand corner of the Composition window, this is where you can actually change your renderer from Classic 3D to Cinema 4D. What this does is it enables a bunch of stuff, particularly, in our instance, it allows us to have extruded and beveled texts and shapes, as well as these shapes and texts can interact with AfterEffect's cameras and lights. With that said, it comes at a price, which is what is disabled, and you should become familiar with this list. I'm going to just press OK to close this out, and first of all, each of…

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