Product and Packaging Visualization in CINEMA 4D and After Effects
In this series of tutorials, we will go through the process of creating a product visualization animation complete with text explaining the benefits of the product. Software required: CINEMA 4D R15, After Effects 12.2.0.52, Knoll Light Factory.
What you'll learn
In this series of tutorials, we will go through the process of creating a product visualization animation complete with text explaining the benefits of the product. This product also includes its packaging, which can create some unique challenges when trying to show off the product itself. We'll learn how to make this work for us and then how to bring this inanimate object to life. We'll use Cloners and our own personal hierarchy controls to create lots of fun and interesting arrangements of the product. After we finish animating, we learn how we can set up lights and cameras to use as placeholders. We use these with the "extract" function in the CINEWARE effect in After Effects. They will keep position and rotation keys for us to use with the text that we later want to add to the composition. After all the text and icons have been added to the comp, we finish off with a few realistic lens effects. This training is for you if you want to create product visualizations with text interactions and learn more about the powerful CINEWARE bridge between After Effects and CINEMA 4D. Software required: CINEMA 4D R15, After Effects 12.2.0.52, Knoll Light Factory.
Table of contents
- Checking out the Script and Setting up the First Camera 8m
- Easing the First Camera and Creating a Second Camera 4m
- Using a Morph Camera 8m
- Creating the Light Bulb Cloner 6m
- Setting up Interesting Camera Moves with Camera 2 5m
- Adding a Few Display Tags 4m
- Zooming the Camera Through the Bulbs with Quick Cuts 10m
- Setting up the Light Bulb Carousel Comp 9m
- Finishing the Carousel Animation 10m
- Placing the Camera Above the Bulbs 5m
- Rotating the Bulbs to Form a New Shape 8m
- Creating Camera 3 with a Time-saving Trick 8m
- Replacing the Packaging 8m
- Adding Lights as Placeholders for Text 9m
- Adding a Camera as a Rotation Placeholder 4m
- Setting the Render Settings 7m
- Bringing the Render into After Effects 5m
- Using Cineware to Extract Data 7m
- Baking the Morph Camera Animation in CINEMA 4D 4m
- Using the Placeholder Animations 10m
- Adding More Text Using the Placeholder Data 8m
- Placing the Two Final Statements 7m
- Creating the Icons and Text Compositions for the Carousel 7m
- Placing the Carousel Text 9m
- Using the Rotation Placeholder with the Carousel Comps 8m
- Cutting out the Bad Frames 8m
- Tracking for a Lens Flare 5m
- Applying the Tracking Data and Tying to a Light 4m
- Creating the Flare with an Adjustment Layer and Knoll Light Factory 5m
- Adding Final Lens Effects 6m
About the author
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