Day 04: Hierarchy, Scene Scale, & Posing

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.

Agenda

Simple Hierarchy

1. Download: Three Stacked Boxes

2. Activity: Adjust the Object Hierarchies

3. Watch Later: Cinema 4D R25 Basics: Object Hierarchies - YouTube

Axis Positioning and Complex Hierarchy

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

6. Watch Later: Cinema 4D R25 Basics: Lower Body Hierarchy - YouTube

Normalizing Object Sizes

1. Download: Objects of Abnormal Sizes

2. Visually Scaling

3. Project Scale

4. Watch Later: Cinema 4D R25 Basics: Scaling Objects to Physical Dimensions - YouTube

Homework

1. Add an Upper Body (of similar complexity) to Lower Body and rig it for animation.

   1. Screenshot of Posed Character

   2. Screenshot of Hierarchy

2. Using your character, Create a 3-10 cell comic strip.

   1. Try to create Dynamic Poses

   2. Play with camera angle/composition to tell your story

   3. Feel free to import preset assets if they'll help

   4. See if you can get away without dialog - but feel free to add it if you'd really like.

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