Redshift Render Essential Training

Learn how to use the rendering power of Redshift to improve your motion graphics workflow.

Introduction

• Welcome to Redshift for C4D
• What you should know

1. Redshift Overview

• What is Redshift?
• Redshift tool locations in Cinema 4D R25
• Navigating to Redshift tools in Cinema 4D S26
• Color workflow in Redshift
• Building a custom Redshift layout

2. Your First Scene

• What you are making
• Shading the robot
• Let there be light
• Framing the bot
• Robotic rendering

3. The Render View

• The interface
• Creating and comparing snapshots
• PostFX
• Checking final renders

4. Understanding Redshift Materials

• Working with Redshift materials
• Node editor
• Glass materials
• Subsurface scattering
• Using textures
• Bump and normal maps
• Detailing materials
• Mixing materials

5. Using Redshift Lights

• Redshift lights overview
• Physical sun and sky
• HDRI lighting
• Volumetric lighting and fog
• Gobos and shaders

6. Redshift Cameras

• Redshift camera tag
• Depth of field and lens distortion
• Photographic exposure

7. Geometry Options

• Object tag overview
• Render time subdivisions
• Displacement
• Particles
• Hair and splines

8. Render Settings

• Easy basic rendering
• Redshift sampling theory
• Sampling in practice
• Global Illumination
• Denoisers
• Motion blur
• AOVs and the manager
• Export settings

9. Advanced Concepts

• Workflow for adding decals
• Advanced shading materials
• User data for MoGraph variation
• Sprite node
• Triplanar node
• Matrix scatter
• Proxies

10. Troubleshooting and Workflow Tips

• Working faster with the Render View
• Converting C4D materials
• Asset management

Conclusion

• Next steps