Training: Cinema 4D – Fundamentals

Module 1: Interface

• 2D / 3D views
• Moving around the various windows
• General settings

Module 2: Modeling

• Primitives
• Creation of objects by combination and edition of primitives
• Polygonal modeling approach
• Polygon brush
• Memorization of point and polygon selections
• Deformations of objects
• Import of models made in other 3D software
• Instances
• Conversion to object
• The splines
• Definition and use
• Import of Illustrator plots
• Nurbs modeling
• Use of hyper nurbs
• The mesh checker

Module 3: Basic lighting

• Lighting sources installation and parameters

Module 4: The Deformers

• Management and applications of deformers

Module 5: Textures

• Terminology: bitmap, 2D shader, 3D shader
• Texture components
• Applying textures

Module 6: The cameras

• Camera setup and settings
• Camera animation
• Axes notions, use of modes

Module 7: The timeline

•     Using the time management palette

Module 8: Rendering

• Render options settings
• Multi-pass rendering
• Export and rendering of a view, an image and an animation

Module 9: Finalization

• General revision