LIVE Project Breakdown | Creating Animated 3D Visuals
Join Maxon Trainer Elly Wade (@itwaselly) for her October livestream, where she’ll be talking about animated 3D visuals. Including a breakdown of the techniques she used to create an animated robot character in Cinema 4D and Redshift, plus how to bring your AOVs into After Effects and enhance with Red Giant tools.
00:00:00 Waiting Loop
00:01:57 Welcome
00:02:52 Today's Topic,
00:03:33 __ Project Teaser
00:05:49 Animation, Mocap
00:07:17 __ Character Definition
00:08:52 __ Character Solver
00:09:26 __ Asset Browser, Mocap
00:10:11 __ Connect character, data
00:11:12 __ Slow Down animation
00:13:57 Design supporting Puppet
00:14:50 __ Copy the head
00:16:09 __ Separating shapes, Split
00:18:39 __ Symmetry Workflow
00:19:21 __ Path Selection, face
00:20:58 __ Symmetry, half, Symmetry Object
00:21:51 __ Rotation Axis, face mask
00:23:54 __ Adding Thicken thickness
00:25:52 __ Integrate modeled parts
00:29:14 __ Final head, ready for next step
00:29:35 Mixamo Animation
00:31:11 __ Mixamo applied; see first part
00:31:52 __ Camera Animation, Vibrate Tag
00:34:20 Surfacing Session
00:35:07 __ Light set up
00:36:16 __ AOV and Light passes
00:37:37 __ Face Material, Greeble Texture
00:41:04 __ Grayscale and Ramp, Colorize
00:43:36 __ Emission Setup, Nodes
00:44:42 __ Greeble Normal map, Bump
00:46:48 __ Greeble as Material blend mask
00:51:25 __ Displacement, RS Object Tag
00:52:18 __ Example render, Walkthrough
00:53:00 Q Adding Googles, etc., via Constrain Tag
00:53:54 Q Ani Templates for quad pets, Assets
00:55:01 AOV, Multi-Pass
00:55:13 __ AOV - Arbitrary Output Variables
00:55:25 __ Purpose and use of AOVs
00:57:10 __ Setting up AOVs, Render Settings
00:57:53 __ Preview passes in RenderView
00:58:25 __ Light Groups, Details, setup
01:00:47 __ Open EXR, Multilayer checkbox
01:02:23 Q Pyro and AOVs
01:03:34 Compositing Session, After Effects
01:04:37 __ New Comp, start from scratch
01:05:30 __ Open EXR Extractor, Layer
01:06:25 __ Adding RG Sound Keys, add audio
01:08:46 __ Frequency and Level, output
01:10:03 __ Second, third, range setup
01:10:50 __ Apply, create keyframes
01:11:10 __ Copy, paste keyframes
01:12:24 __ Red Giant, Optical Glow
01:13:59 __ Final Clip
01:14:15 __ Quick-Tip, BG Graphic, Color Effects
01:17:53 Q Save and Output, Render Settings
01:19:14 Housekeeping, New DPP Simulation
01:21:23 Thank you and bye!