Private Online Maxon Cinema 4D Class
Cinema 4D level 1 class (16 Hours)
( Earlier versions available )
Live Online
Cost: $1295
Course Description:
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.
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
Questions and answers
Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical course. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular course.
Private Class Benefits
You have a certified instructor all to yourself for 16 hours
We go at your pace as it is a private class
The course is customized to your specific objectives and needs
The dates and even times are flexible to suit your schedule
Work with your own content or projects
There is no travel time or associated costs
The price is the same or less than attending a public class with other students who may have different agenda’s and skill levels to your own
Tips & tricks
Access anything
Cinema 4D has a multitude of options, menus, tools and tags. Memorizing them all is a big task, so while you get working on that there is a simple way to access just about anything in Cinema 4D. Hold shift and C. A little pop-up input field will appear at your cursor. Start typing the command you want and anything that has the characters you typed will appear in a list. Select it and hit enter. You’re done.”
“Layers are great for keeping your Object Manager under control in larger scenes. Having a system from the start of a project will help if things get complicated later. Create a layer in the Layer Manager or right-click with objects selected and select Add to New Layer. Drag from the Object Manager to add to layers or hold down ctrl/cmd to add an object and all its children.
When you are modelling and you want to tweak an area with great accuracy, you used to have the Magnet tool and a Soft Selection falloff. Now you simply switch to the Sculpting mode, increase the subdivision levels and use the Grab and Pull tools. This is a dream for organic modellers and can be just as useful for hard-surface work.
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World Class Tutors
You can rely on the expertise of our instructors. We have delivered hundreds of classes to thousands of students over 15 years.
Support
When you attend our class, all students receive class materials, a certificate on completion and 3 months support from our certified instructors.
Risk Free
We guarantee your training and offer all our student a full refund if they are not satisfied with their training experience within the first 2 hours of training.
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