Building a Pop-up Style Broadcast Opener in CINEMA 4D and After Effects

In this course, you'll animate a broadcast opener from scratch, building skills in motion graphics, rendering, and compositing. Software required: CINEMA 4D R17, After Effects CC 2015, Frischluft Lenscare, Reel Smart Motion Blur, Knoll Light Factory.

Usually, a variety of skillsets and software are needed to bring an animator’s 3D motion-graphics project from start to finish. In this course, Building a Pop-Up Style Broadcast Opener in CINEMA 4D and After Effects, you will develop many important animation skills using multiple kinds of software, all while working on a single project: a movie-themed motion graphics opener in a pop-up style. You’ll work with CINEMA 4D’s great modeling tools and learn how to set up different kinds of cameras. Next, you'll add animation to your vignettes by creating pop-up effects to keep them alive and moving, afterwards moving onto lighting, rendering, and compositing your project. Finally, you’ll import your composite to After Effects, where you’ll add finishing touches and create a logo for the closing shot. By the end of this course, you'll have created a high-quality motion-graphics opener from scratch and developed the many skills you need to succeed at every stage of your future animation projects. Software required: CINEMA 4D R17, After Effects CC 2015, Frischluft Lenscare, Reel Smart Motion Blur, Knoll Light Factory.

• Introduction and Project Overview 2mins
• Creating the Film Reel and Ghost Elements 65mins
• Creating the Ocean and Mountain Elements 96mins
• Creating the Gate and Mine Shaft Elements 149mins
• Animating Initial Camera Movements in Cinema 4D 34mins
• Animating the Mountain and Ocean Elements 45mins
• Finalizing Animated Assets in Cinema 4D 65mins
• Lighting and Rendering for Final Output 48mins
• Compositing and Post-processing in After Effects 108mins