Cinema 4D R19 Essentials: VFX

Explore the Cinema 4D workflow for creating VFX and integrating them into live action shots.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What this course is and is not
• Exercise files
• Highlighting new features

1. What are VFX?

• Overview of VFX
• How is C4D used by VFX artists?
• Examples of work
• Big picture concepts

2. Understanding the Motion Tracking Workflow

• What is motion tracking?
• Analyze the shot
• Set up our project for tracking
• Automatic tracking
• Manual tracking
• Solving the 3D camera
• Add a coordinate system
• Test the solve with geometry

3. Additional Motion Tracking Workflows

• Removing lens distortion
• Import and export the tracked data
• Solving and saving lens profiles
• Using the Full Solve command
• Scene reconstruction

4. Preparing and Animating Models for VFX

• The philosophy of VFX modeling
• Optimize with polygon reduction and LOD
• Import a model
• Clean up a model hierarchy
• Incorporate a model with a tracked scene
• Animating models
• Manipulating keyframes and curves

5. Basic Materials

• Introduction to materials
• Create a shiny material
• Create a refractive material
• Create a bumpy material
• Apply materials
• Working with the Texture Manager

6. Basic VFX Lighting

• Overview of VFX lighting
• Working with C4D lights and shadows
• Lighting with Sky Objects
• Working with GI and AO

7. Camera Calibration for Locked-Off Shots

• Working with the Camera Calibration tag
• Modeling using the undistorted workflow
• Incorporate objects
• Add lighting and environment effects
• Render settings to improve the look

8. Takes, Tokens, and Multipass Rendering

• What is VFX compositing?
• Setting up multipass renders
• Preparing takes
• Render using tokens
• Compositing multipass renders

9. Challenge

• Challenge overview
• Solution

Conclusion

• Next steps