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Big picture concepts - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

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Big picture concepts

- [Instructor] Here we are in Cinema 4D. Oh my word, look at all those buttons. Don't panic, let's be clear about something, you do not need to know what every button does to get started and make something cool. There are some aspects of this program that I haven't touched, because they're just not part of my process, they're not part of the way I work. By the end of this course you'll know enough to be dangerous. One of the most useful features in Cinema 4D is the help system. You can come over to here and choose show help and it's usually my first point of call for when I don't know something. What's really great about it is it's so deeply integrated into the software. So if I just right click on an object, I've just created a cube, come down to here and choose show help or Command + F1 and the help just jumps me right to that point so I can then find out exactly what I need to know about that object. Cinema 4D encourages play. You just saw me create a cube there. I could also come…

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