CGI FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS With CINEMA 4D. Introduction To Online Course

In this course CGI for Photographers, learn the basics of modeling and rendering with the very user friendly software from Maxon, Cinema 4D. This software is not only powerful, but also available on both Windows and Mac platforms.

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In This Course
✅What is CGI and what can it do?
What’s the current state of CGI in advertising today? What is it all about? What can I create? Some real world examples.
✅ What is Cinema 4D?
A introduction to Maxon’s Cinema 4D - a 3D modeling tool available for both Mac & PC.
✅ Intro to the Cinema 4D workspace & the basics of building 3D objects.
You will learn about the user interface and some basic modeling ideas that you need to grasp in order to complete this course.
✅ Modeling the Revlon lip gloss product.
With some basic tools at your disposal, you will now get your hands dirty modeling your first real world object, a Revlon Lip gloss product.
✅ Finding & creating the Revlon logos into vector graphics.
With the basic model ready, you need to find yourself a logo and bring it from a flat bitmap to a vector type graphic using Illustrator. If you do not have the software, Vadim has provided the ready files for import into Cinema 4D.
✅ Importing, building & applying the Revlon logo in Cinema 4D.
Now that you have your logo in a 2D vector shape, it’s time to bring it life in the 3D world and apply it to your model.
✅ Creating the materials.
✅ Lighting your virtual studio.
Fully dressed, your Revlon product is ready to take the stage. You’ll see how lights are added to bring out some life into the product.
✅Setting up your camera & making final adjustments.
Next up is adding a camera to the scene. Figure out the focal length for the desired perspective and make some tweaks with lighting to improve the image impact.
✅Rendering your final scene.
Time to put this all together and let the computer do some work, but before that, you need to learn some basics about what is rendering and how to set things up.
✅Final touches in Photoshop.
Let’s wrap things up with a touch of Photoshop to bring out some contrasts, saturations and more.
✅ A quick look at modeling with splines and generators.
Learn to create simple objects such as 3D text, curtains, vases/bottles, and odd shaped items that combine various shapes.
✅ Emitters.
This second bonus gives you a glimpse at the power of particle dynamics. See how to create gravity, colliding balls onto various surfaces coming from an emitter.


Credits: DVH Creative Studios