Transform shapes, icons, and text into compelling motion graphics. Discover techniques to take your animation skills to the next level using Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects.
Overview
Syllabus
Welcome
- Welcome
- Cel shading without Sketch and Toon
- Create balloon text
- Spline projection techniques
- Pop popcorn using Emitter and Dynamics
- Squash and stretch to add character
- Create an Isometric 3D composition
- Use Mosplines to write script text
- Mouth animation with Spline Shader
- GIF creation in Photoshop
- Tips for compositing 2D style 3D artwork
- Add noise via Ambient Occlusion
- Create vinyl toy textures in Cinema 4D
- Use 3D Linear Gradients in Cinema 4D
- 3D topographic maps in Cinema 4D
- Jiggle deformer for secondary animation
- Create pixel art
- Spline shader for splines as material
- Looping flag with cloth dynamics
- Chisel text using the Loft object
- Inverse Ambient Occlusion wax textures
- Create hexagon grid patterns
- Plexus-style atom arrays
- Stylized ribbons with the spot shader
- Create a folding fan with the spot shader
- Procedural marble textures in Cinema 4D
- Tips for comping 3D objects into footage
- Correction deformer polygon selections
- Create HUD elements in Cinema 4D
- Painted textures with Cinema 4D Art Shader
- Lighting with an HDRI
- Apply grain noise texture in After Effects
- 3D sports logo in After Effects
- 3D sports logo in Cinema 4D Lite
- Cinema 4D dynamics for 2D animation
- Cinema 4D Picture Viewer tips
- Mouth animation in Cinema 4D
- Rubber hose character in Cinema 4D
- Dynamic gears in Cinema 4D
- Get started with IK rigging
- Intro to IK dynamics
- Cel-shaded 3D objects
- Stylized 2D grain textures
- Morph between shapes
- Effortless bouncing text
- Trigger dynamics
- Retime animations with Time Tracks
- 2D wood textures in Cinema 4D
- Cartoon eye rigs in Cinema 4D
- Speed up soft-body simulations
- Shatter objects with Voronoi Fracture
- Cineware tips to improve your workflow
- Blowing bubbles in Cinema 4D
- Disco text in Cinema 4D
- Cartoon lip sync workflows for Cinema 4D
- Pattern design with the C4D Hatch Shader
- Sweep rail splines in Cinema 4D
- Tips for working with audio in Cinema 4D
- Soft-body cloth simulations in Cinema 4D
- Apply random colors with the Variation shader
- Cartoon liquid in Cinema 4D
- Real-time animation in Cinema 4D
- Voxel art in Cinema 4D
- Three-point lighting setup
- Create gobo lights in Cinema 4D
- Use XRefs in Cinema 4D
- Enhanced workflows: XRef material manager
- Enhanced workflows: Selection object
- Workflow enhancer: Cinema 4D layers
- Six ways to speed up the Cinema 4D viewport
- Roving keyframes in Cinema 4D
- The speed graph in Cinema 4D
- Looping procedural animation in Cinema 4D
- Apply random colors to objects in Cinema 4D
- Combine dynamics with MoGraph in Cinema 4D
- Quickly model holes in Cinema 4D
- Free version of Cinema 4D included with After Effects
- Speed up ambient occlusion renders in Cinema 4D
- Five tips for more realistic renders in Cinema 4D
Taught by
EJ Hassenfratz