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CINEMA 4D, 3rd Edition
Author
Anne Powers
,
Kent McQuilkin
Release Date: 2012/10/01
ISBN: 9780240814506
Topic:
Design
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Book Description
Make the creative leap to 3D. Realize your artistic vision with this treasure chest of instructional, practical projects. Get the essential concepts and techniques without drowning in the technical complexities.
Table of Contents
Cover
Halftitle
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Who This Book Is For and How It’s Different
The DVD
The 4D Environment and Workflow
Introduction to the Basics of CINEMA 4D
Content Browser
Layer Browser
Preferences
1 The Power of Primitives
Ornament Project
Greek Pool
The Desert Scene Project
2 Under the Hood
MoGraph Mace
City Building
Modeling a Spaceship
3 NURBS Modeling Tools
3D 101: The Vase
Skull Mask Extrude
Creating a Shovel with a Bezier NURBS
4 Deformers and Other Modeling Helpers
Bend and Boolean Lock Project
Wind Deformer Flag
MetaBall
5 Materials in Depth
Shaders
Channel Shaders
Planet Texturing Project
Island of Displacement
6 Better under Lights
Creating and Animating a SearchLight
Intro to GI: Lighting with Objects
Lighting a Product
No GI…..No Problem
7 Animation Basics
Butterfly Project 183
Controlling Animation with Rail Splines & F-Curves 196
8 Head Shots
Modeling a Character Head
Animating a Character with Pose Morph
9 Rigging a Character
Creating the Joints
Mirroring/Binding/Weighting
10 Cameras in Control
Setting Up a Camera to Animate along a Helix Spline
The Stage Object: Uitlizing Multiple Cameras
Depth of Field
CINEMA 4D in Production: An Interview with Chris Smith
11 The Art of Rendering
Investigating Render Settings
Multi-Pass Rendering
CineMan: Integrate Pixar’s RenderMan into your CINEMA 4D workflow
12 A Jolt of Xpresso
School of Fish
Thinking Particles: PBlurp
13 BodyPaint: The Artist’s Connection
Painting a Book in BodyPaint
BodyPaint UV Editing
Projection Man
CINEMA 4D in Production: An Interview with Tom Quach
14 Tips on Type
Extruding Text
Deformers on Type
Sweep Text
Sweep Along Text
MoText Introduction
Animate MoText with the Random Effector
Making Specialized Fonts with the Spline Mask
PolyFX
15 More out of MoGraph
Spline Effector
MoGraph Tracer
MoGraph Sound Effector
MoSpline
CINEMA 4D in Production: An Interview with Rob Garrott
16 After Effects Integration
Part 1: Setting Up a Simple Scene fo AE Integration
Part 2: Setting Up Tags and Render Settings
Part 3: Importing and Compositing in AE
17 Dynamics and Special Effects
Rigid Body Dynamics
The Fracture Object
Cloth Dynamics
Cloner Soft Body Dynamics and Baking the Dynamic Calculations
PyroCluster
Creating a Fantasy Landscape with Hair
Headdress Project
18 Stereoscopic Content Creation in CINEMA 4D
Creating a Stereoscopic Rig in C4D using Xpresso
Creating a Stereoscopic Scene
Compositing Stereo Images in Photoshop
SVI Stereo 3D Editor Plug-in 2.3
19 CINEMA 4D and Friends
Vue 9xStream Integration
Index