The Cinema 4d XL Handbook

This popular program is used throughout the world and is the primary application in a number of computer graphics programs at universities and training facilities. The Cinema 4D XL Handbook provides the growing user base of C4D with a definitive guide and resource. It takes a project-based approach by providing creative solutions to a variety of graphics issues and techniques, and includes new practical ways to implement the numerous tools and vast power of C4D.

Features:

• Includes tutorials using BodyPaint 3D and C4D Net
• A comprehensive guide to using Cinema 4D in specific graphics applications from broadcast logos to special effects
• Provides a variety of tutorials in modeling, character modeling, animation, and more
• Includes tips and tricks from expert C4D users
• Companion CD-ROM includes color images, demos of Cinema 4D products, and tutorial support files

• Preface
• Introduction
• Beginning Modeling
• Power of HyperNurbs
• Advanced Modeling
• (Tutorials: Point/Poly Construction; Subdivision Overviews; Full Human Muscle Form; Eyes, Ears, Mouth, and Nose; Detailed Head, Seascapes, Desert, Forest)
• Textures
• (Tutorials: Scene of Shaders, Material from Scratch)
• Advanced Textures
• (Tutorials: UVW Mapping and Moving Objects, Mapping UVW Coordinates, Textures for Polys Vertex Mapping & Selection Sets, Single Mesh Models and Mapping, C4D and the Grid
• System, Human Body Textures, Human Face Mapping)
• BodyPaint Texturing
• Lighting and Camera Tools
• (Tutorials: Lighting Interior Scene, Interior Scene Night Lit, Interior
• Scene Daytime lit, Exterior Scene Lighting - Day and Night)
• Animation Basics
• (Tutorials: Looped Bee Wings, Virtual Fly-thru, Nested Animation)
• Advanced Animation
• (Tutorials: IK/MTIK Walk, IK/MTIK Run)
• Rendering
• C.O.F.F.E.E.
• Case Studies/Interviews
• Getting the Job