Cinema 4D R20 Essential Training: VFX

Explore the Cinema 4D workflow for visual effects (VFX). Learn how to use C4D R20 for tracking, lighting, rendering, compositing, and more.

Introduction

• Cinema 4D for visual effects (VFX) artists
• Before you begin this course
• New features highlights

1. What Are VFX?

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

2. Get Started with Motion Tracking in C4D

• What is motion tracking?
• Using the Full Solve command
• The importance of shot analysis
• Set up a project for tracking
• Automatic 2D tracking
• Manual 2D tracking

3. Motion Tracker: Solve and Calibrate

• Refine tracking data
• Solve the 3D camera
• Create a coordinates system
• Calibrate a camera
• Solve with lens data

4. Motion Tracker: Additional Workflows

• Import and export tracked data
• Scene reconstruction
• Object tracking
• Solving an object tracked shot
• Integrate a model with the tracked shot

5. Geometry, Cameras, and Animation

• Import OBJ and MTL files
• The philosophy of VFX modeling
• Optimize with Polygon Reduction and Level of Detail
• Animate geometry
• Animate cameras for shot previz

6. Materials and Lighting

• Introduction to materials
• Create, modify, and apply materials
• Create a shadow catcher material
• Work with lights and shadows
• Lighting with Sky objects
• Work with Global Illumination and Ambient Occlusion

7. Work with Projection Man

• What is Projection Man?
• Remove objects with Projection Man
• Baking textures

8. Destruction Techniques with Voronoi Fracture

• Work with Voronoi Fracture
• Recursive fractures
• Paint fractures with hair
• Make fractures move with fields and dynamics
• Work with connectors and geometry glue
• Detail and texture fractures

9. Takes, Tokens, and Rendering

• Prepare takes
• Render previews with tokens
• Set up multipass renders
• What is VFX compositing?
• Composite multipass renders

10. Challenge

• Challenge overview
• Solution to challenge

Conclusion

• Next steps