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Big picture concepts

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- [Male Instructor] Let's be clear from the outset. When working with Cinema 4D there is no single way of doing things. Multiple routes can get you to the same outcome. It isn't a linear set of processes and using Cinema 4D encourages artistic freedom of the expression. There are non-destructive and destructive work flows. When modeling, which you'll no doubt come across, and this can be illustrated simply by creating a parametric cube. I will just click up here to do so. So here it is in a non-destructive state. If I press NB to enable the lines, you can see that we can add segments and remove them if need be. And it's all live. We can make as many edits to the cube as many times as we like until we commit and make it editable. So you do so by pressing C on the keyboard or coming over here and now, it becomes a polygonal object. You'll notice that the parameters over here that I was using to make edits have gone, but I now have more control over this cube. I have access to the…

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