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After Effects Apprentice: 17 Video Walls in Cinema 4D Lite

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Overview

Want to play video on objects in your After Effects animations? Learn how to map video onto the face of 3D objects with CINEMA 4D Lite, and then composite animated 3D text over it.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
  • Registering and updating C4D Lite
  • C4D Lite user interface overview
1. Project Setup
  • After Effects project and composition settings
  • C4D Lite project and render settings
2. Creating the Video Wall
  • Creating a rectangular spline
  • Extruding and beveling the spline
  • Checking your work
3. Lighting and Materials
  • Loading a lighting preset
  • Applying a material preset
  • Creating a custom material
  • Mapping a material to a surface
4. Crafting a Camera Move
  • Creating a camera
  • Animating a camera move
  • Refining the camera move
5. Refining the Scene
  • Taming specular highlights
  • Reducing luminance clipping
  • Increasing the shadow density
6. Compositing with Text in After Effects
  • Render quality
  • Extracting the camera move
  • Creating 3D text in After Effects
  • Applying a text animation preset
Bonus: Production Considerations
  • Production challenges
  • Converting a parametric object to polygons
  • Creating a placeholder
  • Assigning an object buffer
  • Compositing tricks

Taught by

Chris Meyer and Trish Meyer

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