Cinema 4D Masterclass: The Ultimate Guide to Cinema 4D

1. Welcome: Hi and welcome to the cinema 4D masterclass. My name's Ozgur. I'm a filmmaker, motion designer and a Maxon certified instructor for Cinema 4D. I've designed this master class to teach you how to use cinema 4D from the ground up. So by the time you completely training, you'll be able to create some amazing looking 3D renders and animations. We'll start the training with the foundations of Cinema 4D so I'm going to assume that you're a complete beginner. But even if you have used this software before, you'll still learn lots of new tips to speed up your workflow that you wish you knew before. If you've being trying to teach yourself how to use cinema 4D you know it's not the easiest application to learn on your own and you're bound to have gaps in your knowledge. This course will certainly fill those gaps. We'll cover topics like modeling, texturing, animation, lighting and rendering. I've been using Cinema 4D for about 20 years now, and I've created this course with the skills I've mastered over these years. So if you're ready to learn how to use Cinema 4D like a professional, let's get started! 2. Getting to Know C4D - Interface: the first time you start cinema 40. This is the interface you'll be seeing now if you haven't used application before. I know this may feel and seem a little too intimidating at first, but trust me, by the time you reach the end of the Siri's, you'll be able to understand and actually work with all these different tools you see in front of you. So let's start with the basics. The interface of Cinema 40 is divided into different sections called managers. Each manager is responsible for a specific task towards the top right corner of the screen . You see the objects manager Objects manager is responsible for displaying every single object you create inside the cinema. 40. These will include things like actual three D models. You create reference files, lights, floors, skies, you name it. Whatever you creating cinema, 40 will first have to exist inside objects. Manager. Underneath the Objects Manager. You have your attributes. Manager. The task off the attributes manager is to display settings or the attributes off. Whatever you have selected right now, because we haven't selected anything because we don't have anything in this scene, it shows us the settings or the attributes off the actual project. These will include things like the units that we use. The frame rates, the color off the default objects that we create on more to the left off. The attributes manager is the coordinates manager, the coordinates manager who show us information such as position, scale and notation off objects and to the left off. The coordinates manager is the materials manager, but we'll see all the materials we create within the scene right above the materials and the coordinates managers is your timeline area. This is the area you'll be using a lot when it comes to creating and previewing animations right above the timeline. This massive area in the center is called the View Port. The report is perhaps the most important part of the interface. Using the reports, you'll be able to preview what you create. You can think off the view port almost like a window that opens into your three d world. You will be able to see animations that you create in here. You'll do quick renders here on more right above and to the left. Off the View port are some set of tools which will be talking about in a lot more detail later on and above the tools at the top. You see the main menu in the next chapters will be talking about how to actually use these different tools and panels in a lot more detail. 3. Getting to Know C4D - Preferences: in this video, I will show you how to reset the preferences in cinema 40. You may be asking yourself two questions. First, what are the preferences? Second, why do I need to reset them? The preferences are some set of files that dictate how cinema 40 works, and you do need to reset them every now and then in order to put cinema 40 back on track. Well, do I mean by that? As you work in Cinema 40 along the way, you'll find yourself tweaking the preferences sometimes on purpose, sometimes inadvertently, and there will be a point where you want to take all the preferences back to their initial states when you first install the application. This is where resetting the preferences can become really handy. Let me show you how it's done in order to first see the preferences we need to go to the edit menu here and then right towards the bottom is an option that says preferences. The shortcut is command E. Let me just go and click on this, which will bring up the preferences menu here, and in order to reset the preferences, you come right to the bottom of this panel on There's a button here that says Open Preferences folder. You click on this, which will take you into the specific folder on your computer that contains the preferences files. All the preferences files are in here in the press folder on All you need to do is to go and trash this entire folder by right clicking on it and moving it to the trash. An