Cinema 4D 101: Yellow Belt

Introduction to Maxon Cinema 4D

Overview
Overview of Cinema 4D
The Cinema 4D interface
The Camera and Object views
Customising your workspace
Modelling
Creating a manipulating primitive shapes
Creating and understanding splines
Creating Nurbs
Shapes and parameters
Deformers
Polygon modelling tools
Creating and applying textures
Adding text & company logos
Importing Adobe Illustrator paths

Creating a scene

Adding a floor object
Adding the Sky object
Adding Lighting
Light textures, projections & shadows
The Material Manager
Creating new materials
Concepts of colour, transparency, reflection…
Applying a material to an object
Changing a materials mapping
Applying Video textures to objects

Animation

Timeline concepts
Setting Keyframes
Animating objects and cameras
Editing animation sequences
Creating an animation path for your object
Animating the camera
Rendering the animation
Animating Nurbs
Multiple cameras
Animating the light

Rendering / Exporting

Rendering a view
Rendering settings
Rendering for Print
Rendering for Video
Rendering with Alpha Channels
Creating a Render queue
Importing and exporting from other 3D packages
Rendering your project to different formats (MOV, Image sequences & Quicktime
VR).