Cinema 4D Level 1 Beginner Course

Maxon Cinema 4D is a versatile and powerful 3D animation tool used by professionals working in broadcast animation, product design, game development, photo realistic character animation and medical illustration plus a wide range of other 3D modelling and animation applications.

This practical two day course can be tailored to your exact specifications. If you are working in a particular market sector such as film special fx, games or architecture, let us know and we will build a course around your specific requirements.

Pre-Course Requirements:

You need no previous experience to attend this course.

Course Outline:

Introduction

Working In A 3D Environment

• Planning your project
• The File, Edit and Views Managers
• Hot keys
• Customising the interface
• The View window
• The 4th Dimension
• Project settings

Modelling In Cinema 4D

• The selection tools
• The Active Tool Manager
• Creating primitives
• Creating splines
• Creating spline primitives
• Creating NURBS models
• Using the construction tools
• Using extrude, bevel and mirror
• Selecting and positioning objects

Creating Materials

• Cartoon-like or photorealistic
• Material channels:
• colour and luminance
• transparency
• bump maps
• Adding materials to complex models
• Layering materials

Creating Textures

• Image based maps
• 2D and 3D textures
• Editing existing textures

Lighting Techniques

• Creating depth with light
• Key, fill and back lighting
• Animating lights

Animation Techniques

• Camera angles
• Traditional animation techniques
• Key frames
• Animating models
• Animating cameras
• Using the PowerSlider

Rendering

• Using wireframe
• Frames, fields and frame rates
• Rendering tags

Finalising Your Project

• Importing, merging and replacing scenes