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Cinema 4D: Foundations of 3D Animation
Week 01: Basic Navigation & Modeling with Primitives
Week 02: Scene Layout & Set Dressing
Week 03: Redshift Materials
Week 04: Hierarchy, Scene Layout, & Preset Models
Week 05: Basic Lighting
Week 06: Cameras, Shots, & Rendering
Week 07: Basic Animation 2
Wk 08: Spline Modeling
Wk 09: Deformers & Texture Projections
Wk 10: Procedural Modeling
Wk 11: Polygonal Modeling & Organic Sculpting
Wk 12: Dynamics
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2021_Fall
Week 01: Basic Navigation & Modeling with Primitives
Week 02: Scene Layout & Set Dressing
Week 03: Basic Materials
Week 04: Hierarchy, Scene Layout, & Preset Models
Week 05: Basic Lighting
Week 06: Cameras, Shots, & Rendering
Week 07: Basic Animation
Wk 08: Spline Modeling
Wk 09: Deformers & Texture Projections
Wk 10: Procedural Modeling
Wk 11: Polygonal Modeling & Organic Sculpting
Wk 12: Dynamics
2020_Fall
Day 01: Basic Navigation & Modeling with Primitives
Day 02: Basic Animation
Day 03: Basic Textures/Materials
Day 04: Hierarchy, Scene Layout, & Preset Models
Day 05: Basic Lighting
Day 06: In-Camera Editing & Rendering
Day 07: Spline Modeling
Day 08: Deformers & Texture Projections
Day 09: Procedural Modeling
Day 10: Procedural Animation
Day 11: Polygonal Modeling & Organic Sculpting
Day 12: Projection Mapping
Day 13: Simulation
Day 14: Basic Compositing / Project Time
2014_Fall
2014_Spring
Lectures & Articles
3D
Hierarchy
Animation
Assemble Text
Bouncing Ball
Character Animation
Entrances & Exits
Exploding Text in Cinema 4D
Gimble Text
How to animate an object along a path
How to make an object point in the direction it's heading along a path
Rendering a Preview
Collaborative Workflows
Compositing
Adding Motion Blur to a 3D Render using After Effects
Animating a 10-Frame Slam in AE
C4D to AE
Installing the C4D to AE Plugin
Concept
Design
Interface
Content Browser
Setup Your Mac System Preferences for Cinema 4D
Viewport Navigation
Layout
Create a Dolly Camera Rig
Lighting
3-Point Lighting
Simple HDRI Lighting
Modeling
Creating and Manipulating Objects
How Are Interactive Models Different from Film Models
Low-Poly Modeling Techniques
Primitives
Modeling a Chair
Modeling a Tennis Court
Procedural / Generative
Modeling a Jack Fruit with the Cloner in Object Mode
Modeling a Spiral Staircase
Spline Modeling
Bezier NURBS
Drawing Splines
Extrude NURBS
How to smooth out a jerky spline
Lathe NURBS
Loft NURBS
Sweep NURBS
Subdivision Surface Modeling
How to model a jet
Model a Die
Model a Faucet
Subdivision Surfaces
MoGraph Module
A Basic Introduction to the Random Effector
Rendering
1080P Render Settings
Ambient Occlusion Exercise
Rendering a Still Frame with Alpha
Simulation
Creating a Simple Dynamics Setup
Story
Texturing
A Simple Strategy for UV Unwrapping in Cinema 4d
Bump vs Displacement
How to break down a material
iPhone Texture Placement
Rust Text
Links & Resources
Projects
Balancing Figure
Character Made of Primitives
Course Projects Blog
Describe Light
Design as Architecture
Entrances and Exits
Exquisite Corpse Animation
Light a Still Life (Fruit on Plate)
Simple Motion Camera Animation
Template
Texture a Room
Themed 5-Sec Animation
Unique Viewpoints
Verb Animation
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