The Cinema 4d R8 Handbook

Summary

Cinema 4D is known worldwide as one of the most powerful and diverse animation and rendering applications available. Cinema4D R8/8.1 is a major upgrade, with a multitude of new functions and modifications that can be dizzying to get through. With The Cinema 4D R8 Handbook, however, you'll get up to speed quickly. The book has been completely updated to cover the major new functions and provide hands-on methods for analyzing the many new tools. Using a project-based approach, you'll be creating impressive projects as you learn.

Beginning with the general tools and tool layout, you'll learn how to customize the tools to create a work environment conducive to your workflow, including where to start, how to start, and when to finish. Then the real fun begins with the modeling tools. Modeling is covered, from primitive methods and NURBS, to object creation, polygon creation, and NURBS editing. Next you'll put C4D's powerful texture capabilities to work and discover how they function, when they should be used, and what types of effects can be created with simple textures. From there, the all-important issues of cinematography and how to control the camera within C4D are explored. In the same chapter, you'll learn about the often ignored area of lighting and lighting theory, by using lessons from the areas of photography and theatre.

Moving along, you'll explore the complex and powerful animation tools, including timeline, F-curves, tangents, and Beziers. You'll find out how to use new timeline tools as well as when, where, and why to use them. Along the journey, you'll look at the areas that truly lift C4D above the level of a mere 3D animation package: creating custom expressions through the new Xpresso. Finally, the new powerfully professional character animation tools will be analyzed, broken down, and dissected allowing you to bring those characters to life in ways previously unavailable to any 3D package. Young or old, novice or experienced, amateur or professional; The Cinema 4D R8 Handbook will provide you with the tools, techniques, and tricks to increase your productivity, workflow, and the quality of your work with C4D.

摘要

Cinema 4D被公認為全球最強大且多樣化的動畫和渲染應用程式之一。Cinema 4D R8/8.1是一個重大的升級版本，擁有眾多新功能和修改，可能讓人眼花繚亂。然而，通過《Cinema 4D R8手冊》，您將能夠快速上手。本書已完全更新，涵蓋了主要的新功能，並提供了實用的方法來分析這些新工具。通過以項目為基礎的方法，您將在學習的過程中創建令人印象深刻的項目。

從一般工具和工具佈局開始，您將學習如何自定義工具，以創建適合您工作流程的工作環境，包括從何處開始、如何開始以及何時結束。然後，真正的樂趣從建模工具開始。本書涵蓋了建模的各個方面，從基本方法和NURBS到對象創建、多邊形創建和NURBS編輯。接下來，您將利用C4D強大的紋理功能，了解它們的運作方式、何時應該使用以及可以通過簡單紋理創建哪些類型的效果。從那裡，探索攝影和如何在C4D中控制相機的重要問題。在同一章中，您將通過借鑒攝影和劇院領域的教訓，了解常常被忽視的照明和照明理論領域。

接著，您將探索複雜而強大的動畫工具，包括時間軸、F曲線、切線和貝茲曲線。您將了解如何使用新的時間軸工具，以及何時、何地和為什麼使用它們。在這個過程中，您將研究真正將C4D提升到不僅僅是一個3D動畫軟體的領域：通過新的Xpresso創建自定義表達式。最後，將分析、拆解和解剖新的強大專業的角色動畫工具，讓您以前無法在任何3D軟體中實現的方式為這些角色賦予生命。無論年輕還是年老，無論是新手還是經驗豐富的專業人士，無論是業餘還是專業人士，《Cinema 4D R8手冊》都將為您提供提高生產力、工作流程和C4D作品質量的工具、技巧和訣竅。