Cinema 4D R23 Essential Training: VFX

Explore the Cinema 4D workflow for visual effects (VFX). Learn how to use C4D R23 for tracking, lighting, rendering, compositing, and more.

Introduction

• Cinema 4D for VFX artists
• Before you begin this course
• Using the exercise files
• If you're using Cinema 4D S24

1. What Are VFX?

• Overview of VFX
• How is C4D used by VFX artists?
• Setting up C4D

2. Getting Started with Motion Tracking in C4D

• What is motion tracking?
• Using the Full Solve command
• The importance of shot analysis

3. The Motion Tracking Workflow

• Automatic 2D tracking
• Manual 2D tracking
• Refine tracking data
• Solve the 3D camera
• Create a coordinates system

4. Motion Tracker: Additional Workflows

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

5. Destruction Techniques with Voronoi Fracture

• Working with Voronoi fracture
• Making fractures dynamic
• Detailing and texturing fractures
• Baking textures

6. Materials and Lighting

• Asset creation from materials
• Create particle systems
• Working with lights and sky objects
• Apply GI and AO effects
• The power of the Compositing Tag

7. Rendering and Compositing

• Set up a multipass render
• Compositing multipass renders
• Work with Cineware in After Effects
• Send After Effects tracking data to C4D

8. Challenge

• Challenge overview
• Solution

Conclusion

• Next steps