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Building a Pop-up Style Broadcast Opener in CINEMA 4D and After Effects

by Justin Marshall and Laura Hawk

In this course, you'll animate a broadcast opener from scratch, building skills in motion graphics, rendering, and compositing. Software required: CINEMA 4D R17, After Effects CC 2015, Frischluft Lenscare, Reel Smart Motion Blur, Knoll Light Factory.

What you'll learn

Usually, a variety of skillsets and software are needed to bring an animator’s 3D motion-graphics project from start to finish. In this course, Building a Pop-Up Style Broadcast Opener in CINEMA 4D and After Effects, you will develop many important animation skills using multiple kinds of software, all while working on a single project: a movie-themed motion graphics opener in a pop-up style. You’ll work with CINEMA 4D’s great modeling tools and learn how to set up different kinds of cameras. Next, you'll add animation to your vignettes by creating pop-up effects to keep them alive and moving, afterwards moving onto lighting, rendering, and compositing your project. Finally, you’ll import your composite to After Effects, where you’ll add finishing touches and create a logo for the closing shot. By the end of this course, you'll have created a high-quality motion-graphics opener from scratch and developed the many skills you need to succeed at every stage of your future animation projects. Software required: CINEMA 4D R17, After Effects CC 2015, Frischluft Lenscare, Reel Smart Motion Blur, Knoll Light Factory.

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Introduction and Project Overview
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About the authors

Justin thrives as a lead modeling author at Pluralsight. Growing up, Justin found a deep interest for the computer graphics industry after watching movies like Jurassic Park, Toy Story, and The Abyss. His ambition would lead him to work at Sony Imageworks in Los Angeles on movies like Monster House and Surf's Up. Justin has also had numerous articles, tutorials, and images published in 3D World and 3D Artist. As an author, Justin enjoys collaborating with fellow authors, especially on project... more

Laura is a passionate visual effects and motion graphics author at Pluralsight. Ever since her first exposure to After Effects in college, Laura has had an eternal drive to learn more about motion graphics, and teach others what she has discovered. Laura began working at Digital-Tutors (now a Pluralsight company) as a motion graphics artist, creating visually-appealing advertisements and informative art for the site. Throughout her time at Digital-Tutors, Laura contributed greatly to both the ... more

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