Digital Tutors – Creating a Morning News Opener in CINEMA 4D and After Effects

Digital Tutors – Creating a Morning News Opener in CINEMA 4D and After Effects
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What you will learn
In this series of tutorials, we will go through the process for rigging, animating, texturing, rendering, and compositing a morning news opener style motion graphics piece. We start out by creating a camera path that we can arrange our models around for a quick setup and flow of the piece. We learn how to create sweeps that move around our models for added emphasis, and we learn fast ways to get our camera pointing in the right direction along this complex path. After finishing our animations, we move onto briefly discussing our texture workflow. We then begin working in After Effects where we take the piece from looking good, to great, by adding a series of effects and color tweaks. This course is for you if you want to create a motion graphics piece that takes the guess work out of your cameraanimation. By the end of this course, you will have yourvery own finalized motion graphic as well as a new knowledge on the workflow between CINEMA 4D and After Effects.

01. Introduction and project overview 01:10
02. Creating a spline and rig for the camera 10:25
03. Animating the camera rig 13:10
04. Editing the F-Curves to correct overshoot 03:21
05. Adding a camera and beginning to position the models 13:05
06. Using a PSR constraint with the camera target 10:44
07. Fixing flipping with Nulls, the PSR constraint and a rail path 13:52
08. Adding time for the final camera move 08:55
09. Editing the models’ rotation 03:25
10. Creating the main spline 14:02
11. Using SweepNURBS and splines together 15:10
12. Creating secondary splines and animating them 06:28
13. Texturing with Tags 12:39
14. Creating a tight Specularity for texture 03:43
15. Using Bump and Reflection together 09:14
16. Lighting the scene 08:35
17. Rendering the scene 06:07
18. Importing the rendered frames to After Effects 07:05
19. Creating lights in CINEMA 4D to use as emitters and lens flares in After Effects 09:32
20. Saving the .AEC file and bringing it into After Effects 05:12
21. Placing 2.5D images between the two render layers 09:11
22. Keying the light positions to reveal the flares 09:01
23. Using the lights as particle emitters with Trapcode Particular 14:54
24. Adding lens flares with Knoll Light Factory 13:19
25. Adding lens effects for added realism 09:06