Cinema 4D and After Effects: Logo Animation and Compositing
1h 11mIntermediate2015-11-20
Authors
Craig Whitaker
Creative Director at Storia
Course details
Bring your logos to life with this quick start guide for animating and compositing a logo design in CINEMA 4D and After Effects. Craig Whitaker walks through a compressed 7-step workflow, which takes you from import to final render. He extrudes the logo (from a prebuilt Illustrator design), adds text and lights, creates and applies materials, and composites the project in After Effects. Along the way, he reviews the workflow and the plugins he uses, so you can adapt them to fit your projects.
Skills covered
CINEMA 4DMAXON3D AnimationAfter EffectsRenderingMotion Graphics and VFX3D ModelingVisualization and Real-TimeAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and IllustrationDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - Using the exercise files
2. Creating the Logo
- 03 - Overview of 3D workflow
- 04 - Importing Illustrator files
- 05 - Extruding objects
- 06 - Applying materials
- 07 - Lighting your scene
- 08 - Animating your scene
- 09 - Rendering your project
- 10 - Compositing in After Effects
- 11 - Looking at the plugins used
Conclusion
- 12 - Next steps