Join Rob Garrott in CINEMA 4D: Designing a Promo as he demonstrates how to create a 15-second promotional video that looks and feels like a professional advertisement. Learn how to use a combination of CINEMA 4D, After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator to go from concept to script to screen, creating sketches, adding animation, and rendering the final promo. This course focuses on real-world techniques, culminating in a finished, usable product. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

Project planning, covering the scripting and initial drawings

Using hand-drawn artwork in After Effects to time the animation

Creating text and logo elements

Animating the camera

Organic modeling techniques

Rigging models for animating

Fine-tuning animation timing

Adding realistic textures

Lighting and shading techniques

Rendering and compositing a finished animation