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3/27/2020- The creative process
- Building shapes
- Importing assets
- Selecting a typeface
- Animating text
- Creating a color palette
- Applying materials to geometry
- Adding textures with shaders
- Lighting motion graphics
- Adding 3D transitions and camera moves
- Animation techniques
- Exporting your work
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- [Ian] Cinema 4D is a full-fledged 3D application for creating everything from 3D characters and models to 3D motion graphic elements. It's important to note, when creating motion graphics inside of Cinema 4D, the majority of designers still end up making some fine-tune adjustments in external applications designed for compositing, such as Adobe After Effects or Blackmagic Design's Fusion. Now, what makes Cinema 4D so special for motion graphics is its MoGraph toolset. The MoGraph toolset contains tools such as cloner objects and effectors, which gives the user unprecedented controls to duplicate and animate multiple copies of an object and individual letters of text rather quickly, and oftentimes with dynamic simulations like bounce, overshoot, et cetera. If I play this current animation, you can see I've got some snowboards that are actually spinning and bouncing and overshooting, which is a very common effect amongst motion designers. Now, we'll cover how to build and work with cloner objects and effectors later in this course. For this moment in time, it's just important to understand that Cinema 4D really does offer some amazing tools specifically designed for the creation and delivery of motion graphics.
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Introduction
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Motion graphics in Cinema 4D1m 23s
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1. Understanding Motion Graphics
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2. Building Shapes
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Intro to primitive objects5m 29s
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Importing Illustrator files5m 35s
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Applying deformers8m 1s
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3. Exploring Typography
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Intro to typography5m 35s
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Choose wisely: Typefaces5m 17s
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Animating type with MoText5m 47s
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4. Creating a Color Palette
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Intro to color theory5m 4s
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Understanding materials5m 54s
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5. Adding Details
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Adding textures with shaders4m 36s
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6. Lighting and Stylizing
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Intro to lighting6m 3s
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7. Transitions
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Camera animation5m 44s
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3D transitions5m 36s
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8. Animation Techniques
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Robotic animation5m 46s
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Bounce and overshoot2m 11s
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Custom speed changes4m 48s
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9. Exporting
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Conclusion
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Next steps1m 15s
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Video: Motion graphics in Cinema 4D