Cinema 4D Beginner’s Guide | Opsylum

Book Description

3D animation offers a versatile way to bring ideas to life. With this guide, you’ll learn how to take your vision and turn it into beautiful images

With “Cinema 4D”, you can quickly and easily bring your visions to life. This beginner’s guide will walk you through creating and animating a 3D scene, with tips and techniques for everything from photorealistic rendering to motion graphics.

“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