Cinema 4D Complete : Vol. 1 The Essentials

This video will take you on a tour of the interface, its basic components, how things are organized within Cinema 4D

Navigating in the 3D world is the first skill you should acquire. In this video we'll see how to do that with ease.

You can be even more precise when navigating the 3D views by using the different camera mode options.

We are going to see various ways to frame an object, or a group of objects, or the whole scene, to navigate even faster.

The camera is very important feature in 3D. You are always seeing your objects through a camera, whether it's the default camera, or one you've created yourself. It's very important to know how to manage them and not to confuse them.

You do not need to limit yourself to an unique views, you can have up to 4 views panel at the same time, to see your scene from every angle imaginable.

Along the perspective window, there are several others views, called "orthographic" views, which allows you to see your scene from a 2D point of view, or a special 3D projection, such as isometric camera.

The shading display options allow us to see our 3D objects with the polygon lines drawn on them, or to see through them, or to see a simplified version.

The Level Of Detail, or "LOD" is quick way to simplify the geometry of a scene, to make it faster to display and navigate.

The Viewport Filters are a great way to hide and unhide objects quickly in the viewport, as long as different display helpers that can quickly clutter the view.

The Viewport Effects allow us to see a very good approximation of the shading of our objects, making the scene easier to the eyes. Different effects, such as the Depth Of Field, SSAO, Tesselation can drastically alter the looks of our objects, for the better.

The Display Tag is great way to override the shading of a single object, to better suits our needs.

In this video we'll see various ways to better tailor the viewport to our liking.

Cinema 4D is renowned for its very agile and plastic interface. You can alter it very easily and quickly, to allow you to cover any situation.

You can also customize the commands and create button you can place anywhere in the interface.

The Object Manager is the core of Cinema 4D. It is the place that will hold and lists all the object of the scene, for an easy access. It's very important to master it if you want to select and manage your objects effortlessly.

In Cinema 4D there are several ways to select and move objects. It can be confusing when you learn the software for the first time. This video aims to clearly make the difference between the different tools.

The hierarchy is a very important concept in 3D. In this video we'll explore in depth to see what it means.

As the Object Manager lists all the objects in the scene, it can very quickly get overwhelming. Fortunately there're several tools that allow us to better sort these objects.

In this video you'll see how to manage the visibility of objects, whether in the Object Manager or the Viewport.

The Bookmarks are a quick and easy way to control the visibility in the Object Manager of a list of objects.

The Solo Button is perfect to isolate in the viewport an object or a selection of objects, to better concentrate and work on it.

The Layer Manager is the ultimate tool to manage efficiently your scene containing a huge number of objects.

The Attributes Manager is the window to tweak, arrange parameter of almost anything inside Cinema 4D.

In this video you'll see how to navigate through the different tabs of the Attributes Manager.

All objects in Cinema 4D share two common tabs. In this video we'll see the different options inside the basic parameters, which will allow us to change the color, name and visibility of each object.

Through the coordinates tab of the objects, we can dispose and arrange many objects at the same time. Using formulas we can arrange and dispose objects through mathematical operations.

In this video you'll learn about a very important 3D concept : the difference between the local and world coordinates. Through the Coordinate Manager, we'll see when you need to use one system of the other.

In this video we'll explore the very important difference between the size and the scale of a object and why you should not confuse them.

In Cinema 4D the primitives are all the basic parametric objects, that is the objects you can change anytime by tweaking its parameters.

We continue our tour of the parametric objects.

The Generator object needs to be parented to other objects in order for them to work. We'll see then a selection of the most useful generators.

The Array Object can clone and distribute objects along a circle.

The Boole generator can assemble two object into a new one by fusing them, or deleting one part off the other, or by intersecting the two geometries.

The Instance Generator allow us to create dynamic copies of an object.

In this lesson you'll see all about moving objects, scaling and rotating them on each axis.

When you manipulate several objects together, there are options to further refine your manipulations.

Cinema 4D by default creates object in the center of the world, making it difficult to arrange objects together. We'll see in this video how to avoid these problems.

The grids will allow us to work more precisely when arranging our objects.

The Snapping options are the ultimate tool if you want to work very precisely.

In this video, we'll see how to manipule the axis center of objects, to better arrange et manipulate them. We'll see then how to do it by using a null object to preserve the original center of the object.

Cinema 4D has several tools to duplicate, instance and arrange objects on a massive scale.

Quantizing will allow us to move, scale or rotate objects by precise increments.

Using all the knowledge we acquired, we'll create a spiked platonic object using the grids and snapping tools.