From the course: Cinema 4D R18 Essential Training: Motion Graphics

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Big picture concepts

- [Instructor] When you open Cinema 4D for the first time the interface may be a bit daunting. All these buttons here, but let me be clear about something, you do not need to know what every button does to get started and make something cool. There's 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. But I know enough to be dangerous and by the end of this course, you will too. If you ever get stuck, C4D has this great Help system. You can just come up to Show Help and find pretty much anything out. So, for example, it's deeply integrated into the interface. So you can right click on something and just be jumped right to the point in the Help documentation and that should answer your questions hopefully. It's usually my first port of call when I don't understand something or need some clarification. When you start using C4D it really encourages you to play and tease out different parts of the interface…

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