TY - BOOK AU - Powers, Anne TI - Cinema 4D: The artist's project sourcebook SN - 9780240809533 U1 - 006.693 PY - 2007/// CY - Amsterdam PB - Elsevier KW - Computer animation KW - Three-dimensional display systems KW - Computer graphics N1 - Includes index; Introduction Who This Book Is for and How It's Different The 3D Environment and Workflow Using This Book Acknowledgments Credits and Contributions 1 The Dynamic Dozen Working with Parametric Primitives The Galaxy Ball The Barometer Cone Color Drops The Bubbling Teardrop The DNA Spinner The Starlight Lantern The Cosmic Receiver Pandora's Box Easy and Breezy The Gyro The Firefly Lantern The Color Barrel A Line and a Pole 2 Under The Hood Mechanics 101 A Petunia Creating a Center Using Set Selection Repositioning an Obiect Axis Using Axis Center Creating and Repairing Polygonal Surfaces P Is for Pipe Splines; Your Invisible Friends 3 NURBS Modeling Tools The Peephole Box: Extrude NURBS Box Top Decoration: Loft NURBS Curly Glass Tubes: The Sweep NURBS Antique Lightbulbs: Lathe NURBS The Stage Curtain: The Bezier NURBS Putting It Ml Together: The Peephole Box 4 Deformers and Other Modeling Helpers Lively Props: Bend and Twist Deformers A Lump in the Pipe; Bulge Deformer Broken Glass: The Shatter Deformer Flag on the Play: Wind and Shear Deformers Boom! Explosion Deformation Roll the Dice! Boolean Operations A String of Dice: The Arrange and Randomize Functions Great Green Gobs: The Metaball Object 5 Materials in Depth A Texture Totem: Exploring Materials Editing Volume Shaders Using a Movie as a Material Animating Materials 6 Better Under Lights The Virtual Studio: Three Point Lighting Changing the Type of Light Turn up the Volume Throwing Shadows with Gobos Blinking Puffs of Light Editing Multiple Lights Animating Light Position Painting with Light 7 Animation ABCs A Is for Airplane Hat: Working out Timing Working with Custom Tangents Animating the Propeller Anticipatory Hops Squash and Stretch B Is for Batty Box: Combining Time Curves and PLA C Is for Crown 8 Head Shots Building a Head with the Symmetry Object 9 Creating and Rigging a Character Building a Character Introducing MOCCA Character Shortcuts Multiple Versions and States of Characters Doing Your Character Homework 10 Animating a Character Animating the Joint Rig Animating FK Animation IK n Cameras in Control Looking through a Camera Animating a Camera on a Spline Path A More Complex Camera Movement Focal Length Animating a Camera on a Helix Spline Path Using Depth of Field Virtual Lens and Filter Effects Switching Cameras in CINEMA 4D A Critical Distinction Using Film Offset Looking through Other Objects 12 The Art Of Rendering Investigating Render Settings Artistic Rendering Effects 14 a Jolt ofXpresso What Is Xpresso? Xpresso: Basic Anatomy The Sticking Place Stop Right There! What Else Can Be Done with Xpresso? 15 Environment, Mood, and Magic The Interior Environment The World Outside: Skies, Backgrounds and Cycloramas The Outdoor Environment Here Comes the Glitz The Importance of Music and Sound 16 BodyPaint 3D: the ArtisPs Connection Getting to Know BodyPaint Painting a Simple Model Making a Weathered Sign Painting a Head with BodyPaint 13 Added Attractions Locating Plugins and Modules Commercial Plugins Freeware Modules 17 CINEMA 4D and Friends Helper Applications: An Overview Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator and Freehand Pixologic Zbrush Corel Painter and Synthetik studio Artist Sources and Software for Splines Sound Solutions To the Web with You, C4D! Organizing Libraries For Teachers Hardware Friends 18 Tips on Type The Basics of Text Splines And Now, Some Creative Text Messaging Type Forms: Finishing Touches and Creative Play Animated Type Effects Using the MoGraph Text Object 19 Creating Elements for Motion Graphics The Rich 3D Space Using The After Effects Plugin MoGraph Magic! 20 The Creative Leap Finding Your Voice as an Artist The Holistic Artist Optimize Your Creative Time Become an Art Historian Cultivate Efficient and Healthy Work Habits Take Advantage of the New Exhibition Paradigm Storyboards, Thought Charts, Animatics 3D as a Day Job ER -