2014
Digital Tutors
Laura Smith
03:30:00
English

In this series of tutorials, we will go through the process of creating a product visualization animation complete with text explaining the benefits of the product. This product also includes its packaging which can create some unique challenges when trying to show off the product itself.

We'll learn how to make this work for us and then how to bring this inanimate object to life. We'll use Cloners and our own personal hierarchy controls to create lots of fun and interesting arrangements of the product.

After we finish animating, we learn how we can set up lights and cameras to use as placeholders. We use these with the "extract" function in the CINEWARE effect in After Effects. They will keep position and rotation keys for us to use with the text that we later want to add to the composition. After all the text and icons have been added to the comp, we finish off with a few realistic lens effects.

This training is for you if you want to create product visualizations with text interactions and learn more about the powerful CINEWARE bridge between After Effects and CINEMA 4D.

1. Introduction and project overview
01:12
2. Checking out the script and setting up the first camera
07:52
3. Easing the first camera and creating a second camera
04:11
4. Using a Morph Camera
07:50
5. Creating the light bulb Cloner
06:11
6. Setting up interesting camera moves with camera 2
04:50
7. Adding a few display tags
04:04
8. Zooming the camera through the bulbs with quick cuts
09:31
9. Setting up the light bulb carousel comp
09:16
10. Finishing the carousel animation
09:59
11. Placing the camera above the bulbs
05:15
12. Rotating the bulbs to form a new shape
08:17
13. Creating camera 3 with a time saving trick
07:39
14. Replacing the packaging
08:25
15. Adding lights as placeholders for text
08:31
16. Adding a camera as a rotation placeholder
03:40
17. Setting the render settings
07:08
18. Bringing the render into After Effects
05:21
19. Using CINEWARE to extract data
07:03
20. Baking the Morph Camera animation in CINEMA 4D
03:56
21. Using the placeholder animations
10:22
22. Adding more text using the placeholder data
07:33
23. Placing the two final statements
07:20
24. Creating the icons and text compositions for the carousel
07:01
25. Placing the carousel text
09:19
26. Using the rotation placeholder with the carousel comps
08:24
27. Cutting out the bad frames
07:55
28. Tracking for a lens flare
05:00
29. Applying the tracking data and tying to a light
04:15
30. Creating the flare with an Adjustment layer and Knoll Light Factory
04:54
31. Adding final lens effects
06:12

http://www.digitaltutors.com/tutorial/1577-Product-and-Packaging-Visualization-in-CINEMA-4D-and-Afte

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