From the course: Cinema 4D: Principles of Motion Graphics
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Creative process: File organization - CINEMA 4D Tutorial
From the course: Cinema 4D: Principles of Motion Graphics
Creative process: File organization
- [Instructor] As much as I'd like to gloss over this topic, talking about file management is really one of the most important things to managing a successful creative motion graphics project. Now since Cinema 4D can accept a lot of different kinds of files and you might be working with a lot of different people in the creative process it's important to have a folder structure for your projects so things aren't strewn across multiple hard drives or heaven forbid on different computers altogether. This way you can save everything within one folder structure. So please feel free to use this as a baseline but also customize things based on your individual workflows. So for my example here you'll notice I have a 01_02 File Organization folder and if we open that you'll see I have a project folder. So usually I number the project that I'm working on and then I add a name for that individual file. You can change the numbering…
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