Cinema 4D Complete : Vol. 4 All about Simulations

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Rigid Bodies – The basics

Lecture 1: Download Exercice Files

Lecture 2: Basics of Rigid Bodies

Lecture 3: Using the startup scene

Lecture 4: How simulations work

Lecture 5: Scale, gravity and mass

Lecture 6: Collision shape

Lecture 7: Collision shape : Cube and Sphere

Lecture 8: Compound shape : more complex objects

Lecture 9: Thickness

Lecture 10: Friction and bounce

Lecture 11: Stickiness

Lecture 12: Mass

Lecture 13: Rotational mass

Lecture 14: The Simulation Scene workflow

Chapter 2: Rigid Bodies – Animating

Lecture 1: Initial velocity

Lecture 2: Initial state

Lecture 3: Trigger on colision

Lecture 4: Tigger on velocity peak : basics

Lecture 5: Make a tower crumble with Velocity peak

Lecture 6: Destroy a wall with Velocity peak

Lecture 7: Settle dynamic objects after a simulation

Lecture 8: Controling the deactivation of dynamics

Chapter 3: Taking control of Rigid Bodies

Lecture 1: Controling the animation with Follow Position

Lecture 2: Following a spline

Lecture 3: Spicing the simulation with Forces

Lecture 4: Enhancing a Mocap with Dynamics

Lecture 5: Creating an Abstract Equilibrium

Lecture 6: Topple a domino line

Lecture 7: Tumbling a pyramid of domino

Chapter 4: Cloth – The basics

Lecture 1: The basics of Cloth

Lecture 2: The importance of topology and density

Lecture 3: Main parameters

Lecture 4: Using Vertex Maps

Lecture 5: Creating a flag : fixing points

Lecture 6: Creating a flag : using the Cloth Belt

Lecture 7: Animating curtains with the Cloth Belt

Lecture 8: Creating a beautiful animation with Forces and Mass

Chapter 5: Tearing Cloth

Lecture 1: How to tear Cloth

Lecture 2: Using Fields to drive tearing

Lecture 3: Growing a tear

Lecture 4: Enhancing the tearing using triangles

Lecture 5: Smoothing the tearing

Chapter 6: Soft Body and Balloon

Lecture 1: Basics of Balloon

Lecture 2: Constrain a balloon text

Lecture 3: Basics of Soft Bodies

Lecture 4: Understanding the poles

Lecture 5: Orienting the poles

Lecture 6: Plastic deformations

Lecture 7: Deforming a rigid text

Lecture 8: Turning any object to soft body (proxy workflow)

Chapter 7: Creating and animating garments

Lecture 1: Create and animate pillows

Lecture 2: Create a bottle packaging

Lecture 3: Dressing a character with clothes

Lecture 4: Refining the cloth animation

Lecture 5: Changing the dress, finalizing the animation

Chapter 8: Abstract animation with Cloth

Lecture 1: Mix Animation : Creating a leathery text

Lecture 2: Mix Animation : Adding folds

Lecture 3: Mix Animation : Enhancing a dancing character

Lecture 4: Mix Animation : Using forces to animate a deflating text

Lecture 5: Create a render for the deflating text

Lecture 6: Creating a Wacky Noodle Man

Lecture 7: Adding hair to the Wacky Noodle Man

Chapter 9: Ropes

Lecture 1: Basics of ropes

Lecture 2: Using Vertex Maps with Ropes

Lecture 3: Connecting ropes with others objects

Lecture 4: Twisting a rope

Lecture 5: Let's make it a real rope !

Lecture 6: Create and animate a spiderweb

Lecture 7: Tearing the spiderweb