Course Content

• Introduction to Cinema 4D Training
• Basics
  • Perspectives
  • Program settings / View settings
  • Coordinate systems in the 3D world
  • Simple basic objects
  • Object Manager
  • Attributemanager
  • Contentmanager
  • Layers and views
  • Tags
  • Material editor
  • Basics Advanced Renderer
  • image manager
  • Creation of the most important keyboard shortcuts and shortcuts
• Introduction into the production workflow
  • Import/Export
  • Modelling
  • Materials
  • scene structure
  • Lighting
  • Rendering
• Tools
  • When is the use of which tool useful
  • advantages and disadvantages of certain work steps
  • Combination of objects and deformers
  • Polygons, edges and points
  • The modeling modes
  • Selections
• Professional Modelling in Cinema 4D
  • Basics of professional modeling
  • An object becomes a model
  • The Polygon Tools
  • weights
  • Cut correctly Paste / plane / lines with various tools
  • Nurbs Modelling
  • Splines
  • Instances
  • The symmetry object
  • The Boole object
  • The zero object
  • Mesh Deformer
• texturing, texture creation, texture search, shader
  • With textures we give our models the right outfit
  • We create textures in Photoshop and Bodypaint and work with real textures
  • Material channels / Relief / Normal etc.
  • Channel Shader
  • Volume shader
  • Projections
• lighting of scenes in Cinema 4D
  • In addition to professional texturing, knowledge about the correct use of lighting is one of the most underestimated topics in the area of 3D
  • Basics Lighting
  • Standard illumination
  • The Lighting Tool
  • Global Illumination
  • Light and Shadow
• Introduction to Animation
  • How to create animations
  • keyframe animation
  • The right timing
  • Video formats
• Camera and rendering
  • The perspective matters
  • The camera object
  • Physical camera settings
  • Depth Blur
  • Use Multi-Passes correctly
  • GPU Prorender of AMD (advantages and disadvantages)
  • Pysical material for ProRender
  • Pysical Light for ProRender
• Render preferences and options
  • Post effects
  • The image manager
• Summary of the training

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Target group

Designers, architects, graphic designers and engineers who want to create professional product design, photo-realistic character animations and scientific simulations with Cinema 4D.

Prerequisites

General handling of Windows/Mac

Organizational matters