Lynda - Designing a Promo with Cinema 4D

Join Rob Garrott in CINEMA 4D: Designing a Promo as he demonstrates how to create a 15-second promotional video that looks and feels like a professional advertisement. Learn how to use a combination of CINEMA 4D, After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator to go from concept to script to screen, creating sketches, adding animation, and rendering the final promo. This course focuses on real-world techniques, culminating in a finished, usable product. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:
Project planning, covering the scripting and initial drawings
Using hand-drawn artwork in After Effects to time the animation
Creating text and logo elements
Animating the camera
Organic modeling techniques
Rigging models for animating
Fine-tuning animation timing
Adding realistic textures
Lighting and shading techniques
Rendering and compositing a finished animation