Create a Cityscape with Cinema 4D + Photoshop

Welcome to this course on Creating a Cityscape Using Cinema 4D + Photoshop.

In this series of lessons we will cover a lot of topics to give you a solid understanding of the entire architectural visualization workflow including:

01. The creative and technical steps involved with 3D modeling the architecture.

Polygon modeling and the make editable function

Creating extrusions for the window frames and glass

Store selections

Texturing

Duplicating geometry using the MoGraph cloner and array object

Deformers

02. Creating the city blocks

Render instances and tips for improving CPU performance

Adding entourage to populate the scene.

The differences between a 3D tree and a cutout

Locating free content within the asset browser

Links to external free 3D model resources

Camera views and compositional techniques

03. Texturing the street with Adobe Photoshop

Painting Techniques

Layer Masks

File Organization

Importing custom brushes

File preparation

04. Explore 3 different light set-ups

HDRI image with infinite light and fill light

Physical Sky

Nighttime scene including use of atmospheric fog effects

05. Rendering and optimization for faster render times.

Render Optimization

Render Settings

Object Buffers

06. Post-Production Techniques in Adobe Photoshop

File Organization

Channels and Selections

Masking

Adjustment Layers

Glows, Sharpening, Depth of Field

Final Output