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Maxon Cinema 4D Fast Track Gold Training Course - (Beginner + Intermediate + Advanced)

Provided by Docklands Media

Summary

Price
£1,530 inc VAT
Or £127.50/mo. for 12 months...
Study method
Classroom
Duration
8 days · Full-time
Qualification
No formal qualification
Certificates
  • Certificate of completion - Free
Additional info
  • Tutor is available to students

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Location & dates

Location
Address
3 Laybourne House
Admirals Way
East London
London
E149UH
United Kingdom

Overview

Money-Back Guarantee
If you are not truly satisfied with your Maxon Cinema 4D training, neither are we. Let us know on the first day and we will make it right. Otherwise, we will refund 100% of your money.

Lifetime Support
Once you have completed your Cinema 4D course, you will have access to our email and telephone support for a lifetime. You can contact us for any questions or technical issues, related to what you’ve learned on your training course.

24-Month Free Class Retake
If you want to come back and attend this Cinema 4D course again to refresh your skills, you have 24 months to do so. The retake is free of charge.

Certificates

Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included

Course media

Description

Cinema 4D Fast Track – Gold is a combination of the Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced courses. We will take you from knowing literally nothing or just a little about the software up to a level where you can confidently create outstanding 3D renders which will leave any client in awe.

Introduction

  • Touring the interface
  • Understanding the 3D environment
  • Tools and panels
  • Workspaces

Modelling

  • Parametric shapes
  • Deformers
  • All about Splines
  • NURBS objects
  • Polygon Modelling
  • Textures
  • Integration with Illustrator
  • Working with text

3D Scenes

  • Creating floor and sky
  • Working with Lights
  • Shadows and textures
  • Material Manager
  • Working with reflection, transparency, and colour
  • Projection mapping

Animation

  • Key concepts
  • Working with the timeline
  • Using keyframes
  • Animating objects
  • Animating cameras
  • Animating lights
  • Working with paths

Rendering

  • Render settings
  • Rendering a view
  • Rendering for print
  • Rendering for video
  • Rendering alpha channels
  • Render Queue
  • Different file formats

Best Practices

  • Changing preferences
  • Creating workspaces for maximum efficiency
  • Smarter ways to create animations
  • Eliminating surplus data

Advanced Rendering

  • Lighting schemes
  • Improving render quality
  • Creating advanced realism
  • Reducing render times

Advanced Modelling and Materials

  • Complex deformers
  • Optimising meshes
  • Advanced textures

Advanced Animations

  • Keyframes in detail
  • Creating a bouncing ball
  • F-Curve controls
  • Keyframe splines

Particles

  • Understanding particles
  • Creative uses of particles
  • Working with emitters
  • Using forces

Introduction to MoGraph

  • What is MoGraph?
  • Creative uses of MoGraph
  • Working with a simple Cloner Object

Multi-Pass Rendering

  • Multi-pass renders
  • Using Photoshop and After Effects to enhance the render quality
  • Best workflow practices

Advanced MoGraph

  • Working with Effectors
  • MoGraph selections
  • Using Deformers
  • Using Tracer objects
  • MoText

Dynamics

  • Understanding the rules
  • Working with Rigid Bodies
  • Creating Soft Bodies
  • Creating Cloth
  • Adding Connectors
  • Forces
  • Motors and Springs
  • Creating complex animations with Dynamics

Hair and Fur Simulation

  • Creating hair and fur
  • Hair properties
  • Controlling the hair
  • Creating grass

Intro to Xpresso

  • Understanding the foundations of Xpresso
  • Using formulas to create animation
  • Popular effects

Thinking Particles

  • Setting up thinking particles
  • Colliders and Attractors
  • Making sparks and cracks

Character Rigging

  • Creating and linking bones
  • Rigging Characters
  • Inverse Kinematics Chains
  • Creating skin
  • Painting and weighting

Character Animation

  • Posing the character
  • Creating a walk-cycle
  • Refining movements

Advanced Rendering and Compositing

  • Reducing render times
  • Getting the best results
  • Object Buffers
  • Working with After Effects
  • Working with Photoshop

Who is this course for?

Those with no or little knowledge of the software and want to learn some of the advanced techniques of Maxon Cinema 4D

Requirements

You do not need any prior knowledge of the software, in order to attend this course. However, you should have a basic understanding of your computer’s operating system – such as launching an application, creating folders, saving files and copying them onto a different drive.

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Provider

Docklands Media

Creative Software Training Courses

Based in the heart of London’s Canary Wharf, Docklands Media specialises in delivering the best quality training in creative IT applications. Our wide range of training creative courses include industry standard software packages by Autodesk, Adobe, Aple, Maxon and more. Docklands Media is an Adobe Certified Associate Program Provider, authorised by Certiport. All of our courses are run by industry professionals with decades of field experience who are the most sought-after designers, film makers, programmers, educators and certified trainers in the creative industry.

Our Philosophy 
At Docklands Media, we believe that everybody is creative and we make it our mission to help you discover that for yourself. We are committed to making this journey as easy for you as possible. So why waste more time when you could be working on your next design project, video, graphics, animation, website or mobile app? Let us help you design your future!

What We Teach 
We offer a large number of different training courses on creative IT applications. Some of our most popular training courses include Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Autodesk AutoCAD, 3ds Max, Maxon Cinema 4D, Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, Trimble Sketchup, HTML, CSS, JavaScript to name a few. As well providing training courses on these applications, we also create tailored training courses to suit your needs precisely.

How We Teach 
We deliver intensive training courses to teach you the skills you need in the shortest possible period of time. With hands-on practice, our small classes and the state-of-the-art facilities enable you to master the core concepts and techniques and have the best software training experience possible.

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