Building a Pop-up Style Broadcast Opener in CINEMA 4D and After Effects

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Justin Marshall

10:15:31

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1. Introduction and Project Overview

1. Introduction and Project Overview.mp4

02:23

2. Creating the Film Reel and Ghost Elements

1. Creating the Film Reel.mp4

07:34

2. Attaching the Film Reel.mp4

07:54

3. Finishing the Film Reel.mp4

10:10

4. Creating the Lighting Environment.mp4

08:46

5. Creating the Street with Booleans.mp4

10:08

6. Building the Ghost.mp4

08:41

7. Finishing the Ghost.mp4

06:04

8. Adding Materials to the Ghost.mp4

05:51

3. Creating the Ocean and Mountain Elements

01. Modeling the Beach.mp4

08:30

02. Modeling a Buoy.mp4

09:39

03. Building a Shark Fin.mp4

11:08

04. Modeling the Billboard.mp4

06:50

05. Finishing the Billboard.mp4

03:22

06. Modeling the Mountain.mp4

12:02

07. Adding Materials to the Mountain.mp4

04:36

08. Adding Trees with Cloners.mp4

08:33

09. Randomizing Tree Colors.mp4

04:39

10. Building the Spaceship.mp4

07:56

11. Finishing the Spaceship.mp4

11:47

12. Adding a Crowd of People.mp4

07:40

4. Creating the Gate and Mine Shaft Elements

01. Creating the Gate.mp4

09:38

02. Building the Sign with Splines.mp4

07:50

03. Modeling the Doors.mp4

06:52

04. Adding Materials to the Gate.mp4

05:59

05. Adding Ferns with Cloners.mp4

08:05

06. Adding Palm Trees.mp4

07:23

07. Modeling the Large Cliff.mp4

10:35

08. Adding Materials to the Cliff.mp4

06:01

09. Modeling the Mine Track.mp4

09:14

10. Finishing the Mine Track.mp4

07:07

11. Modeling the Scaffolding.mp4

08:55

12. Building the Mine Cart.mp4

09:26

13. Modeling Cart Occupants.mp4

06:28

14. Finishing the Occupants.mp4

06:47

15. Attaching the Mine Cart to a Path.mp4

07:41

16. Creating Arrows.mp4

10:16

17. Setting up for Transition Foliage.mp4

05:07

18. Creating Transition Grass.mp4

06:58

19. Creating Transition Trees.mp4

04:33

20. Creating Transition Ferns.mp4

04:17

5. Animating Initial Camera Movements in Cinema 4D

1. Setting up the Cameras, Targets, and Tags.mp4

10:19

2. Animating the Main Shot Camera and Target.mp4

12:39

3. Animating Camera Two for the Wide Shot.mp4

05:10

4. Creating a Morph Camera and Animating the Blend.mp4

02:50

5. Baking the Morph Camera.mp4

03:30

6. Animating the Mountain and Ocean Elements

1. Animating Devils Tower.mp4

07:44

2. Animating the Spaceship.mp4

07:03

3. Animating the Crowd.mp4

08:56

4. Animating the Beach Appearing.mp4

04:01

5. Animating the Buoy and Water.mp4

07:06

6. Animating the Billboard Transition.mp4

05:07

7. Animating the Transition Grass.mp4

05:25

7. Finalizing Animated Assets in Cinema 4D

01. Animating the Road.mp4

03:34

02. Animating the Ghost Appearing.mp4

06:23

03. Animating the Ghost Walk Cycle.mp4

05:53

04. Animating the Gate.mp4

07:09

05. Adding the Torches.mp4

09:59

06. Animating the Sconces.mp4

06:06

07. Animating the Foliage.mp4

06:49

08. Animating the Cliff.mp4

07:12

09. Animating the Mine Carts.mp4

03:58

10. Animating the Arrows.mp4

08:26

8. Lighting and Rendering for Final Output

1. Adding the Lighting and Sky to the Shot.mp4

11:32

2. Setting up for Depth of Field.mp4

14:33

3. Fixing the Target Path to Get a Better Focus Object.mp4

09:19

4. Setting up the Render Settings and Testing.mp4

12:39

9. Compositing and Post-processing in After Effects

01. Importing the Rendered Passes to After Effects.mp4

04:44

02. Using RSMB Pro (Reel Smart Motion Blur) with the Motion Vector Pass.mp4

09:42

03. Using the Frischluft Lenscare Plugin for Realistic Depth of Field.mp4

06:00

04. Adding Glow Using the Object Buffers.mp4

13:46

05. Adding Placeholder Lights to the CINEMA 4D File.mp4

04:27

06. Using Knoll Light Factory to Add Flares to Our Extracted Lights.mp4

10:03

07. Assigning the Proper Hierarchy to the Light in CINEMA 4D.mp4

09:49

08. Animating the Hand-drawn Logo.mp4

13:12

09. Revealing the Letters with a Mask.mp4

10:04

10. Adding a Gradient Fill to the Shape Layer for the Film Strips.mp4

10:38

11. Adding Realistic Lens Effects to the Composition.mp4

10:51

12. Cleaning up Issues.mp4

05:28

Description

In this course, you'll animate a broadcast opener from scratch, building skills in motion graphics, rendering, and compositing. Software required: CINEMA 4D R17, After Effects CC 2015, Frischluft Lenscare, Reel Smart Motion Blur, Knoll Light Factory.

What You'll Learn?

Usually, a variety of skillsets and software are needed to bring an animator’s 3D motion-graphics project from start to finish. In this course, Building a Pop-Up Style Broadcast Opener in CINEMA 4D and After Effects, you will develop many important animation skills using multiple kinds of software, all while working on a single project: a movie-themed motion graphics opener in a pop-up style. You’ll work with CINEMA 4D’s great modeling tools and learn how to set up different kinds of cameras. Next, you'll add animation to your vignettes by creating pop-up effects to keep them alive and moving, afterwards moving onto lighting, rendering, and compositing your project. Finally, you’ll import your composite to After Effects, where you’ll add finishing touches and create a logo for the closing shot. By the end of this course, you'll have created a high-quality motion-graphics opener from scratch and developed the many skills you need to succeed at every stage of your future animation projects. Software required: CINEMA 4D R17, After Effects CC 2015, Frischluft Lenscare, Reel Smart Motion Blur, Knoll Light Factory.

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Justin Marshall

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Justin thrives as a lead modeling author at Pluralsight. Growing up, Justin found a deep interest for the computer graphics industry after watching movies like Jurassic Park, Toy Story, and The Abyss. His ambition would lead him to work at Sony Imageworks in Los Angeles on movies like Monster House and Surf's Up. Justin has also had numerous articles, tutorials, and images published in 3D World and 3D Artist. As an author, Justin enjoys collaborating with fellow authors, especially on projects like the Unity Mobile Game Development Series. Justin has helped shape the careers of many digital artists and has even earned the title of "Master Justin" by those he has helped. Welcome to his dojo.

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