This project for a Summer campaign on Foxtel Box Office was created using a combination of Maxon Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects with Zaxwerks ProAnimator and Knoll Light Factory. The simple 3D text supers were created using ProAnimator inside After Effects and the supers with characters were created in Cinema 4D and finished in After Effects. read more
In this 2 minute video tip learn how you can use the Link Active Object command to take control of lights and make lighting your Cinema 4D scene easier and fun.
This project is another good example of taking poor quality 4:3 vision, making it 16:9 and giving it some polish. The tools included Adobe After Effects, Zaxwerks ProAnimator, Trapcode Horizon and Shine, and Maltaannon’s Screenify effect (featured in MILG 5). The vision was treated with the Screenify effect— which adds a realistic jumbotron read more
In this video tip learn how to use the Compositing Tag and Exclusion option inside Maxon’s Cinema 4D to control the visibility of objects and reflections in your scene.
My journey with Cinema 4D continues and I have to say, I love this software. It’s so user-friendly and designer-oriented. My latest project is a logo for Wrestlemania 24. In this case no logo was supplied so I had to scan one from a magazine. It took me about 5 hours to convert it to paths in Illustrator and another 5 to model it in Cinema 4D. View final
tags | Cinema 4D, Illustrator
Just completed another small project using Cinema 4D and After Effects. This is basically a TNA version of the WWE wrestling graphics posted below. It’s used by promo producers to “house” 4:3 vision. Once again a simple animation since we needed to have the vision reach its mark as quickly as possible – otherwise the opening shot of a promo may be missed. read more
My journey with Cinema 4D continues. Here’s another small job I’ve just completed using Cinema 4D and After Effects. This will be used by my client in an Avid to create promos from mostly 4×3 vision (I also supplied a matte for the vision inside the frame). Most of the vision we get supplied is pretty bad, with lot’s of compression artifacting, so rather than scaling it read more
For this project my brief was pretty open but I had to include graphic elements from the Crime and Investigation network’s existing identity along with key words and footage from various “ci” programs. The channel tagline is “look closer” so I decided to use glass panels similar to the glass slides one uses to examine specimens under a microscope. read more
For this project my client approached me with a print out of an ugly corporate chart representing the growth in Foxtel’s subscriber numbers. Considering that this information was to be placed at the start of a 3 minute corporate video I suggested that a dynamic timeline that captured viewer attention would be more suitable than a boring graph. At the start of the read more
This spot is nothing ground-breaking except for the fact that it’s the first time I used Cinema 4D on a job (special thanks to Ko Maruyama for his support). I was supplied with a PDF of a logo which I prepared in Illustrator then imported into Cinema 4D, modelled, animated and exported to After Effects where I mapped the wrestling vision to the front faces of the letters read more
