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.

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