Learning Maxon Cinema 4D – A Beginners Training Course

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: 01. Introduction

Lecture 1: Important – Download These First – Working Files

Lecture 2: 0101 What Is Cinema 4D? And Who Uses It?

Lecture 3: 0103 What You Should Expect From The Video

Chapter 2: 02. Getting Started

Lecture 1: 0201 Workflow

Lecture 2: 0202 Navigating The Viewports

Lecture 3: 0203 Application Prefs

Lecture 4: 0204 Touring The Interface

Lecture 5: 0205 Project Settings – Starting A New Scene

Chapter 3: 03. Understanding 3D Objects

Lecture 1: 0301 Object Hierarchy And Parenting

Lecture 2: 0302 Coordinate Systems

Lecture 3: 0303 Select, Move, Scale, And Rotate

Lecture 4: 0304 Primitive Objects And Attributes

Lecture 5: 0305 Building A Chair

Chapter 4: 04. Understanding Splines

Lecture 1: 0401 Drawing Splines

Lecture 2: 0402 Procedural Splines

Lecture 3: 0403 Modifying Points On A Spline

Lecture 4: 0404 Extrude Nurbs

Lecture 5: 0405 Sweep Nurbs

Lecture 6: 0406 Lathe Nurbs

Lecture 7: 0407 Spline Mask

Lecture 8: 0408 Working With Adobe Illustrator

Chapter 5: 05. Polygonal Modelling Techniques

Lecture 1: 0501 Basic Components Of 3D Objects

Lecture 2: 0502 Modelling With Extrude

Lecture 3: 0503 Modelling With Extrude Inner

Lecture 4: 0504 Modelling With The Knife

Lecture 5: 0505 Modelling With Bevel

Lecture 6: 0506 Modelling With Bridge

Lecture 7: 0507 Working With Edge Loops

Lecture 8: 0508 Welding Points

Lecture 9: 0509 Soft Selections

Chapter 6: 06. Modelling Objects And Deformers

Lecture 1: 0601 Working With The Boole Object

Lecture 2: 0602 Working With Array And Atom Array

Lecture 3: 0603 Working With Instance Objects

Lecture 4: 0604 Working With Explosion FX

Lecture 5: 0605 Bend, Bulge, And Twist FFD

Lecture 6: 0606 Working With The Spline Wrap

Chapter 7: 07. Lighting

Lecture 1: 0701 Lighting In 3D

Lecture 2: 0702 Light Types

Lecture 3: 0703 Working With The Sky Object

Lecture 4: 0704 Global Illumination

Lecture 5: 0705 Physical Sky

Lecture 6: 0706 Ambient Occlusion

Chapter 8: 08. Defining Materials And Textures

Lecture 1: 0801 Materials 101

Lecture 2: 0802 Projection Methods

Lecture 3: 0803 Material Channels And The Content Browser

Lecture 4: 0804 Bump And Displacement Channels

Lecture 5: 0805 Frontal Projection

Lecture 6: 0806 Textures With Alpha

Chapter 9: 09. Animation

Lecture 1: 0901 Animation Fundamentals

Lecture 2: 0902 Keyframes And The Powerslider

Lecture 3: 0903 Autokey Mode

Lecture 4: 0904 F Curve Manager

Lecture 5: 0905 Path Animation

Lecture 6: 0906 Camera Morph

Lecture 7: 0907 Motion Camera

Lecture 8: 0908 Previewing Animations

Chapter 10: 10. Rendering

Lecture 1: 1001 Render Settings

Lecture 2: 1002 Multipass Rendering – Part 1

Lecture 3: 1003 Multipass Rendering – Part 2

Lecture 4: 1004 Multipass Rendering And Photoshop

Lecture 5: 1005 After Effects To Cinema 4D

Chapter 11: 11. Mograph

Lecture 1: 1101 What Is Mograph

Lecture 2: 1102 The Cloner

Lecture 3: 1103 The Random Effector

Lecture 4: 1104 Motext

Lecture 5: 1105 Dynamics

Chapter 12: 12. Building The Robot

Lecture 1: 1201 Modelling The Head

Lecture 2: 1202 Modelling The Antenna

Lecture 3: 1203 Modelling The Eyes

Lecture 4: 1204 Modelling The Body

Lecture 5: 1205 Modelling The Arms

Lecture 6: 1206 Modelling The Tire

Lecture 7: 1207 Materials

Chapter 13: 13. Conclusion

Lecture 1: 1301 Wrap-Up