In this series of lessons, we're going to use CINEMA 4D to quickly build up and tear down a scene.

One popular technique in graphics today, that you'll see in many commercials, is to quickly build up or remove objects within a scene in interesting ways. It may be a house building itself from the ground up or a car coming apart. CINEMA 4D offers a great deal of control in creating setups like this, especially when working with Mograph and XPresso. We'll start by building most of the geometry we'll need for our scene, a simple camp site. We'll use Cloner Objects and other methods to build geometry so that we'll have the maximum amount of control. We'll take a look at adding custom controls and using XPresso to set up those controls to drive different attributes of our objects. Finally, we'll key frame our new consolidated controls to create a fun animated piece. Once you're done, you'll be able set up and control your own custom scenes.

Lesson Outline (22 lessons)


1. Introduction and Project Overview 1 min. 1 sec.



2. Building the tent frame 8 min. 13 sec.



3. Adding the tent flaps 9 min. 58 sec.



4. Building the sleeping bag 8 min. 49 sec.



5. Modeling the stacks of firewood 9 min. 58 sec.



6. Building the campfire 6 min. 42 sec.



7. Setting up the flame 9 min. 23 sec.



8. Building the hammock 8 min. 45 sec.



9. Finishing the hammock 7 min. 43 sec.



10. Building the chair 10 min. 16 sec.



11. Setting up tent controls in XPresso 13 min. 3 sec.



12. Setting up the tent flaps 12 min. 52 sec.



13. Adding sleeping bag controls 7 min.



14. Setting up firewood controls 9 min. 6 sec.



15. Setting up cooler controls 6 min. 29 sec.



16. Adding controls for the campfire 10 min. 6 sec.



17. Setting up hammock controls 12 min. 17 sec.



18. Adding a control for the chair 5 min. 59 sec.



19. Key framing the campground controls 14 min. 39 sec.



20. Animating the tent flaps 8 min. 39 sec.



21. Keying the camper 9 min. 26 sec.



22. Setting up a camera move and rendering 8 min. 45 sec.


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