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- Cinema 4D
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Design for Production: Animation
with Michael Rigley
- X-Particles
- Adobe After Effects
- Cinema 4D
- Octane
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Bring your Cinema 4D styleframes to life.
Bring your designs to life as award-winning art director Michael Rigley guides you through his entire 3D animation and production workflow. Start off by planning out your scenes, experiment with the editorial process, learn detailed 3D animation techniques in Cinema 4D, and finish up by compositing in After Effects. Whether you’re taking this course as a follow-up to Design for Production: Workflow, or just want to follow along and sharpen your skills, this class will teach you professional workflows to produce incredible projects of your own.
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Michael Rigley
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Artwork by instructor Michael Rigley
Course Lesson Plan
Here's the low-down on everything covered in this course.
- 5 hours 53 minutesTotal Bundle Duration
- 60 VideosVideo Lectures in Bundle
- 4.09 GB of FilesDownloadable Project Files
Tools Used ?The tools listed below are used throughout the lectures of this course. Using alternatives is definitely possible depending on your proficiency, but we can only recommend using these listed softwares.
- X-Particles
- Adobe After Effects
- Cinema 4D
- Octane
Lesson 1
Getting Started
Get ready to dive into animation as Michael shows you how to lay the foundation for a successful project. He’ll guide you through the various stages of production, and familiarize you with the tools you’ll be using along the way. Then you’ll get hands-on sourcing audio and building a boardomatic to plan out the full sequence.
- 50 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 15 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
The Process
Cutting the Boardomatic
Making a Plan
Conclusion
Lesson 2
Working Toward an Animatic
Go through the first stages of 3D animation as Michael shows you how to build an animatic. Here, you’ll set up the project file and begin blocking out the camera and basic animation. Michael covers the importance of prototyping animation and leads through his complex problem solving process.
- 1 hour 19 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 15 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Animation Setup in C4D
Blocking Out the Shot
Prototyping Motion
Conclusion
Lesson 3
Road to the Rough Cut
Now it’s time to apply what we’ve learned from prototyping to our active scene. Michael breaks down how to integrate components into the shot and animate additional elements. With our cameras and basic timing established, we can now add complexity back into the scene. Lastly, we’ll do lighting and render checks before we send off low sample outputs.
- 1 hour 54 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 16 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
3D Animation
Render Checks for Animation
Conclusion
Lesson 4
Finishing
For our final lesson, we pull together all the hard work in After Effects as Michael demonstrates his approach to multi-pass compositing. Topics range from importing and comp setup to keyframing light passes, setting up effects, and creating the final look. Finally we’ll cover exporting and assess the final product.
- 1 hour 49 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 14 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Checking Renders
Compositing 3D Sequences
Final Editorial
Conclusion
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