From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments
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Preparing the Cinema 4D file for AE compositing
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments
Preparing the Cinema 4D file for AE compositing
- [Narrator] So our scene in Cinema 4D is done, but we want to add some more polish to this. I want to add some color correction, I want to add some more smoke, I want to add the Particular flames here, I want to add some depth of field. And, we could do most of that, if not all of that here, in Cinema 4D, but it's just kind of an unwieldy beast. Those are really tasks, not best for actual 3-D work, and better for actual compositing. So we want to get this out of here, and into compositing. But if we just render this out as-is, and that's it, then when we take it over into After Effects, we don't have a lot of important information that we need. Such as, the location of these candle centers, and how they move in space here. Actually, let me go ahead, in this camera. I'm going to go ahead and click this little icon here. And by the way, I'm not in Cinema 4D Lite. I'm in a full version of Cinema 4D. And so, we have a little bit more attributes, and a little bit more things going on…
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Why did we create this shot?3m 47s
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Using normal maps on Golhatn's helmet7m 28s
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Modeling the candlesticks6m 25s
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Creating the melted candles7m 32s
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Adding materials to the objects7m 45s
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Lighting the scene12m 5s
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Preparing the Cinema 4D file for AE compositing6m 20s
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Creating flickering candlelight with Particular12m 33s
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Adding depth of field in After Effects10m 34s
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Enhancing the smoke in the scene4m 45s
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Adjusting the mood by changing the color7m 20s
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