Day 04: Hierarchy, Scene Layout, & Preset Models

Learning Goals

Students will be able to:

    1. Adjust the positions of object axes for animation.

    2. Setup an object hierarchy.

    3. Normalize the scale of objects in a scene.

    4. Dress a scene with preset models.

Agenda

Simple Hierarchy

Three boxes, one on top of the next.

  1. Download: Three Stacked Boxes

  2. Activity: Adjust the Object Hierarchies

Axis Positioning and Complex Hierarchy

Lower Body Made of Boxes

  1. Download: Lower Body

  2. Technique: Renaming Objects

  3. Technique: Moving Axes

    1. Manually

    2. Axis Center

  4. Technique: Adjusting Hierarchy for Animation

  5. Exercise: Rig the Lower Body

Normalizing Object Sizes

  1. Download: Objects of Abnormal Sizes

  2. Visually Scaling

  3. Project Scale

Preset Models

  1. Content Browser (Presets > Visualize has the most elements)

  2. TurboSquid

  3. Google/Sketchup 3D Warehouse

  4. The Pixel Lab

Homework

  1. Add an Upper Body to Lower Body and rig it for animation.

    1. Screenshot of Posed Character

    2. Screenshot of Hierarchy

  2. Return to your interior lighting design scene

    1. Add at least three preset models to your scene to help better illustrate who this character is.

    2. Feel free to delete any models that exist in the scene which do not serve the story.

    3. Fix any texturing issues pointed out in class.

Recommended Viewing

  1. Reference

    1. Watch: Guerilla CG - Hierarchy

    2. Watch: Watch: Guerilla CG - Hierarchies: Building a Robot

    3. Aligning Axes

      1. Cinema 4D Lite Reference: Changing Pivot Points and Anchor Points [Cinema 4D Lite Reference] - Cineversity Training and Tools for Cinema 4D

      2. Center [C4D Manual]

  2. Tutorial

    1. Party Bot, Part 03: Prepare for Posing by Renaming Objects, Creating a Hierarchy, and Adjusting Axes [Party Bot: Making a Basic Character with Primitives] - Cineversity Training and Tools for Cinema 4D