Cinema 4D Beginner's Guide (PDF+EPUB)

Cinema 4D Beginner's Guide by Jen Rizzo
English | ISBN: 1849692149 | 2012 | PDF+EPUB | 274 pages | 12 + 16 MB

BOOK DESCRIPTION
Cinema 4D enables everyone from professionals to hobbyists to create stunning 3D animations. This book will walk you through all the steps of creating an interior flythrough of an office: creating a 3D structure, adding materials and lighting, animating, and rendering. Then, you'll explore additional features through a series of mini projects: creating motion graphics, exporting a stylized non-realistic image, adding hair and creating cloth. You'll learn how to connect pieces that all work together by exploring node-based programming in Xpresso, then wrap everything up with an introduction to compositing in Adobe After Effects.

What you will learn from this book

An overview of 3D animation on a linear timeline
Material/Texture creation
Photorealistic Rendering
Stylistic Rendering
3D Animation on a linear timeline
Motion Graphics with Mograph toolset
Basic Xpresso programming
Integrating 3D scenes with Adobe After Effects
Adding realism to scenes with hair and cloth
Exporting scenes to Adobe After Effects for external compositing
Approach
Step-by-step instructions with guiding screenshots will help new users to create a photorealistic interior scene with an animated camera. Users will also learn how to use the MoGraph module to create dynamic motion graphics, how to link parameters with Xpresso (Cinema 4D's node-based programming language), and are guided through mini-projects to explore additional tools for non-photorealistic illustrations, hair creation and cloth rendering.
Who this book is written for
Designers and artists with a basic proficiency in animation or computer graphics, as well as professionals who are familiar with other 3D animation software.

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