Maxon Cinema 4D Introduction Masterclass 4 Days - Online
Key Course Details:
Level:
Introduction to Advanced
Duration:
4
Days - 10am to 5pm
Price:
£695 + vat
Go from being a novice to mastering the advanced tasks in this powerful 3D-design program. Join us as we show you how to build, manipulate, and animate your own 3D models. This is a perfect introduction for those looking to add a new dimension to their design skills.
We will guide you on everything from getting started with simple objects and controlling the Cinema 4D environment all the way up to animating and adjusting complex, textured models. With our help, you will learn the techniques that will allow you to efficiently produce professional 3D designs.
Go from being a novice to mastering the advanced tasks in this powerful 3D-design program. Join us as we show you how to build, manipulate, and animate your own 3D models. This is a perfect introduction for those looking to add a new dimension to their design skills.
We will guide you on everything from getting started with simple objects and controlling the Cinema 4D environment all the way up to animating and adjusting complex, textured models. With our help, you will learn the techniques that will allow you to efficiently produce professional 3D designs.
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Cinema 4D Masterclass 4 Days
Course Details
This 4-day Masterclass course will give you all the skills you need to become a confident Cinema 4D user, even if you have no prior experience of working in 3D. We will show you everything from the basics of creating and manipulating simple objects all the way up to animating complex systems, adding realistic lighting effects, and optimising your projects.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Navigate the Cinema 4D environment
- Create and manipulate objects
- Import content from other programs
- Apply textures to surfaces
- Animate basic and complex systems, including hair and fur
- Convert 2D to 3D with camera mapping
- Add realism with enhanced lighting techniques
- Render scenes to produce the final output
- Improve rendering speed by applying efficient adjustments
- Manage layers, preferences, and exports
Our goal is for you to learn the tools and techniques necessary to become a confident 3D designer.
This course can be taken in a single 4-day block or split into a 2-day block (Introduction) and then a separate 2-day block (Intermediate) taken at a later date.
Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites:
This course is intended for designers who have little or no experience of any 3D programs.
You will need basic PC or Mac skills, including a solid understanding of a computer's operating system (Windows or Mac OS). You will also need to know how to launch a program, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media. -
Full Course Outline
The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.
Cinema 4D Introduction Masterclass Outline- General interface
- Customising the interface to make life easier
- Navigation and object manipulation
- Complete interface tour
- Polygon tools
- Spline manipulation
- NURBS
- Deformers
- Working with imported CAD models
- Loading Adobe Illustrator paths
- Working to scale
- Polygon efficiency for faster renders
- openVDB volumetric modelling
- Material channels
- File formats and their advantages
- Shaders - textures - animated textures
- Applying materials in the right place
- Reflections and Transparencies
- Keyframes
- Easing in and amooth motion
- Animating parameters
- Camera animations and walkthroughs
- Particle systems
- Cameras
- Lighting
- Shadows
- Lighting techniques
- 3 Point lighting
- Render settings and project set up
- Final render export
- Rendering animations
Intermediate Content- Animation
- Mograph motion graphics tool kit
- Dynamics physics engine
- Flowing hair and fur
- Xpresso automated motion
- Real time motion capture
- Particle effects
- Global illumination lighting
- Ambient occlusion automatic shadows
- Convert 2D photos to 3D models with camera mapping
- Studio lighting rigs
- HDRI 32-bit panoramas
- Area lights and shadows
- Image-based automatic lighting
- Adjusting sampling rates
- Creating track matte alphas for post editing
- Depth & motion vectors for DOF and motion blur
- Polygon reduction
- Sketch and Toon for pencil and technical diagrams
- When to use 16 and 32-bit formats for higher quality
- HyperNURBS sculpting
- Working with the HUD
- Layer management
- Setting default preferences
- Multipass Photoshop export
- Compositing photo and video background plates
- Cleaning up imported meshes
- Free web resources
- Plugins
- Training material - tutorials
- Expectations from advanced level course
- Online communities
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Location Details
This course is provided as a remote online course with live training provided by our Maxon Authorised Instructor
Accessing the live online course anywhere is easy and all you will need is:
- Computer with the trial or full version of the software
- Separate screen or device for the shared video display
- Sound output via computer or headset
- Ideally a camera and microphone on the computer for remote contact
Our goal is for you to be able to create simple but professional documents that are ready to use for the web and for print.
It is important to note this is not a classroom based training.
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Cinema 4D Masterclass 4 Days - Upcoming Online Course Dates
21 Oct - 24 Oct Special Offer! £550 + vat 09 Dec - 12 Dec £695 + vat 03 Feb - 06 Feb £695 + vat 14 Apr - 17 Apr £695 + vat 30 Jun - 03 Jul £695 + vat Cinema 4D Masterclass 4 Days - Split Date Options
Cinema 4D Introduction
21 Oct - 22 Oct
9 Dec - 10 Dec
3 Mar - 4 Mar
14 Apr - 15 Apr
30 Jun - 1 Jul
Cinema 4D Intermediate
23 Oct - 24 Oct
11 Dec - 12 Dec
5 Feb - 6 Feb
16 Apr - 17 Apr
2 Jul - 3 Jul
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Client Reviews
"Size of classes are perfect. Everyone was able to ask questions and get them answered. The trainer was knowledgeable and got through a huge amount of information in an understanding way..."
Ian Alwis, Cut and Polish, Maxon Cinema 4D - 2 Day Intermediate
"Having never used Cinema 4D before this was a great introduction to a very complex program. The basic tools were well covered and have provided a good starting knowledge to look into the workings of this program further."
Siobhan Hooper, Headline Publishing, Maxon Cinema 4D - 2 Day Introduction
"Fantastic instructor. This has genuinely been the best training program I've ever been on!"
Matt Beveridge, Iris Worldwide, Maxon Cinema 4D - 2 Day Introduction
"Extremely helpful day overall. Think I have really learnt a lot today and am looking forward to putting it into practice now."
Nancy Ni Bhriain, Maxon Cinema 4D - 2 Day Intermediate
"The course was well structured, very informative and the trainer was brilliant!"
Katherine Parmley, Joyce Design, Cinema 4D - 2 Day Introduction
"Extremely useful professional knowledge from someone in the industry who knows what they're talking about."
Michael Riley, Selfridges, Maxon Cinema 4D - 4 Day Masterclass
"I really enjoyed the class and learnt so much in the two days. The tutor was excellent and made the training much more fun, I would definitely consider doing more training in the future."
Katie Reeves, STI Group, Maxon Cinema 4D - 2 Day Introduction
"Had a very interesting 2 days within pleasant surroundings with a friendly, knowledgeable instructor. Perfect C4D training course."
Darren Mael, Billington Cartmell, Maxon Cinema 4D - 2 Day Intermediate
"A worthwhile training course. A very experienced instructor who gave useful tips and tricks in addition to the scheduled course."
Andy Hunt, Totem Agency, Maxon Cinema 4D - 2 Day Intermediate
"The trainer was very knowledgeable, patient and adaptable. A very pleasant introduction to Cinema 4D -thank you."
Graham Martin, Rapier, Maxon Cinema 4D - 2 Day Introduction