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The motion graphics pipeline

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The motion graphics pipeline

- [Instructor] In the previous movie, we talked about the key tools a motion graphic artist needs to know in order to be effective and Cinema 4D is a very important tool in the pipeline. The pipeline is a set of processes that get you from concept to completion. If we really simplify the pipeline into three discrete processes, generally speaking 3D work fits in the middle and the preceding and following parts are usually 2D stages. So, if we take a commercial as an example of a post-production pipeline, the commercial would begin in the 2D world, so you've got your script, your storyboard, doing the edit, that sort of thing, so once you've go the edit, maybe in the script it calls for a transition into a 3D created product shot or something like that. So, the 3D graphics would need to be created and you'd work in stages, modeling, animating, lighting and texturing and finally the 3D animation would be rendered as images and at that point, we're moving back into the 2D world. So, the…

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