2015
Digital Tutors
Laura Smith
2h 52m
English
In this series of CINEMA 4D and After Effects tutorials, we'll be taking a logo from it's flat design to a fully composited 3D logo animation. We'll begin by learning how to prepare the logo in Illustrator to be imported as splines to CINEMA 4D. Then, we'll add depth, rotation, camera movement, lighting and materials to bring the logo to life.
We'll learn how to add some quick variation to the look of the animation with Mograph and how to use tags to get a quick, easy, and effective camera animation. Once we set up the render in CINEMA 4D, we move on to After Effects, where we'll begin the compositing process.
In the After Effects portion of the course, we'll add Lens Flares that play an important role in the overall look of the animation. We also add particles that help to sell the depth that we established with our camera settings in the 3D application.
We finish off by adding a few realistic lens effects that punch up the final look from good, to great. By the end of this CINEMA 4D and After Effects training, you'll know how to take a flat logo and turn it into something amazing.
Introduction and project overview
Planning your animation to align with your logo theme
Saving and importing your logo to work in CINEMA 4D
Adding depth to the logo
Creating the camera movement with tags and splines
Animating the logo movement
Tweaking the logo rotation values and F-Curves
Adding secondary assets to the shot
Creating materials for the logo and other assets
Adding and editing the sky and lighting the shot
Adding lights to use as flares in After Effects
Changing the camera's depth settings
Setting up object buffers and baking the camera movement
Setting up the render settings and rendering
Importing the rendered frames into After Effects
Using the object buffers and color pass to create separate layers
Combining the Camera Lens Blur effect and the depth map pass
Using the CINEWARE and Knoll Light Factory to create lens flares
Creating an obscuration layer for the lens flares
Adding particles with Particular
Adding lens effects
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