Wk 12: Dynamics

Learning Goals

Students will be able to:

1. Animate objects using Physical simulations.

Agenda

Note: The exact timing and topics covered may shift.

Dailies: 9:00am-9:20am

1. Homework Review: Modeling

2. Q&A: Have any questions come up since last class?

Rigid Body Dynamics: 9:20am-9:50am

1. Watch: Universal Everything's MTV Idents

   1. Sweet x 1000%

   2. Surprise x 1000%

   3. Ederer's House Destruction

   4. Hello Luxx's Learn Cinema 4D Dynamics: Chains

   5. MoDynamics Reel

   6. Read: Creating a Simple Dynamics Setup

2. Project Overview: Rube Goldberg Machine

Course Projects Checklist:

1. Create a new post on your Course Blog Titled: Assignment List

2. Copy the checklist below into your post, and link to each assignment. If you did not complete the assignment, leave it blank.

3. Checklist

   1. Day 01: Character Made from Primitives

   2. Day 02: Verb Animation

   3. Day 03: Theatrical Texturing Exercise

   4. Day 04:

      1. Upper Body Rig

      2. Bedroom Scene + 3 Imported Objects

   5. Day 05:

      1. Photographic Lighting Recreation

      2. Thematically Appropriate Lighting

   6. Day 06: 30 sec Single Object Film

   7. Day 07: Object Made w/ Splines

   8. Day 08: Texture a Model with Different Texture Projection Modes

   9. Day 09: Procedurally Modeled Environment

   10. Day 10: 30 sec Procedural Animation

   11. Day 11: Follow a Polygon Modeling Tutorial

   12. Day 12: Animated Camera Mapped Image

   13. Day 13: Rube Goldberg Machine

Class Eval: 10:40am-10:50am

1. Watch:

2. Theory:

3. Technique:

4. Exercise:

Homework

What:

1. Project: Construct a Rube Goldberg machine and render a 20sec+ animation of it in action.

   1. What is a Rube Goldberg machine? This OK Go video is a pretty great example.

   2. Examples of other Rube Goldberg machines constructed in Cinema 4D can be found on YouTube.

Due: By the start of our next class session on your Course Projects Blog.

Recommended Reading / Viewing

• Dynamics - General | Cinema 4D Online Help

• Cinema 4D: Dynamics | Lynda.com by Thanassis Pozantzis

• Cinema 4D Training - learn. Cinema 4D Dynamics | HelloLuxx.com by Tim Clapham

• Getting Started With Cinema 4D: Intro To Cinema 4D Dynamics | Greyscalegorilla by Nick Campbell

• What's New in R18: Destruction Effects with Voronoi Fracture | Cineversity by Donovan Keith

• Cineversity.com's Connector Basics by Andrew Runyon

• Rigid Body Dynamics by Wikipedia: A technical overview of the math behind rigid body dynamics simulations. Not necessary to read or understand, but fun to take a peek at.