From the course: Cinema 4D: Principles of Motion Graphics
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Lighting for shiny, slick looking graphics - CINEMA 4D Tutorial
From the course: Cinema 4D: Principles of Motion Graphics
Lighting for shiny, slick looking graphics
- [Instructor] If we look in our viewport, you'll notice that these shiny elements that are throughout the scene don't have any shine when I go ahead and preview that viewport. In order to create shiny elements, you need to have reflections. And right now, frankly, there aren't enough elements in the scene to create different reflection, so what we need to do is add an environment. To do that, I'll go to the upper left corner of the interface, I'll click on the create menu, and I'll go down to environment, in there I'll add a sky. Now, this sky element currently has no materials applied to it and it doesn't look like much has happened in the scene, but I'm going to add a material to the sky, a very specific kind of material. So if you haven't installed the presets in cinema 4D, go up under the help menu and make sure you check for updates, and you'll see the presets that you can download and install. Now once you've…
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