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  1. Hud Landscape in Cinema 4D & After Effects

     

    In this motion design course, instructor Nick Harauz will take you through creating a HUD landscape with the help of Cinema 4D and After Effects. We'll start off by creating a loopable rotating landscape in Cinema 4D through a non-traditional method with Volumes. We'll then export our landscape as an AEC file and then stylize inside of After Effects using a variety of Effects.

    The assets used in this course are available for download.

    About the instructor

    Nick Harauz is a certified motion graphics instructor, and has previously been a master trainer for Red Giant, Cineversity from Maxon, Boris FX, Post Production World Online and Adobe Max. Nick has developed his motion design style over the last 15+ years and crafted high-end work for a variety of domestic and international brands such as Virgin Mobile, Proctor & Gamle, Diageo and MasterCard.

    Who is this course designed for?

    • Motion Designers
    • Cinema 4D users
    • After Effects users
       

    COURSE OVERVIEW

     

    LESSON 01: CREATING THE LANDSCAPE

    We'll set up our Cinema 4D project and create a basic landscape. We'll then take that landscape and place it inside the Volume builder to create a stylized look.

    LESSON 02: CURLING THE VECTORS AND ANIMATING WITH FIELDS

    In this lesson, we'll look at how we can modify our vectors as well as use fields to animate them on screen

    LESSON 03: CAMERA AND NULLS

    Now, we'll add an animated camera and nulls to our scene at the position of some of our vectors

    LESSON 04: EXTERNAL COMPOSITING AND RENDER SETUP

    We'll continue to add some external compositing tags to the null objects, so that we can see them in After Effects and then setup our render so it references the viewport

    LESSON 05: VIEWPOST RENDERER AND AAC FILE

    We'll look at the the viewport renderer and AAC file

    LESSON 06: BRINGING IN THE AEC FILE

    In this lesson we'll look at how we can bring in an AEC file and setup our composition in After Effects

    LESSON 07: SET CHANNELS

    We'll use the set channels effect on duplicate copies of the Landscape to add some distortion

    LESSON 08: ADDING TEXT

    In this lesson, we'll add and attach some After Effects 3D Text to one of the nulls from Cinema 4D

    LESSON 09: RADIO WAVES

    Now it's time to add the After Effects Radio Waves effect, adjust its properties and position it so that it's referencing the 2nd null from Cinema 4D

    LESSON 10: LIGHT YOUR 3D OBJECTS

    We'll add some After Effects lights to illuminate the text and Radio Waves

    LESSON 11: STYLIZING THE COMP

    In this last lesson, we'll add texture, color correct our piece and add some grain to the final look

     

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  2. Hud Hexagon in Cinema 4D & After Effects

     

    In this course, Nick Harauz will take you through using the Cloner Object inside of Cinema 4D to create a seamless Hexagon Floor and animated Hero Objects. After rendering our Cinema 4D project, we will bring this into After Effects and use 2D shapes, Replicators and Glow to add stylistic accents to the design. We will also explore using an After Effects Glow versus the Glow from Maxon One's VFX Suite.

    The assets used in this course are available for download.

    About the instructor

    Nick Harauz is a certified motion graphics instructor, and has previously been a master trainer for Red Giant, Cineversity from Maxon, Boris FX, Post Production World Online and Adobe Max. Nick has developed his motion design style over the last 15+ years and crafted high-end work for a variety of domestic and international brands such as Virgin Mobile, Proctor & Gamle, Diageo and MasterCard.

    Who is this course designed for?

    • Motion Designers
    • Cinema 4D users
    • After Effects users
       

    COURSE OVERVIEW

     

    LESSON 01: CREATING THE MAIN OBJECT

    In the first lesson, we'll use a preset Cinema 4D spline to create the main Hexagon

    LESSON 02: CREATING THE HONEYCOMB FLOOR

    We'll create another hexagon that we'll clone and position just under our main object

    LESSON 03: USING THE EXTRUDE GENERATOR

    This lesson will be about the Extrude Generator

    LESSON 04: ANIMATING THE FLOOR

    The Plain Effector and Fields will be used to create a pulsating type animation

    LESSON 05: LIGHTING THE SCENE

    We'll use Cinema 4Ds lights to illuminate our graphics

    LESSON 06: ADDING A CAMERA, POSITIONING THE SCENE AND RENDER

    A camera will be added to frame our scene and then render for use in After Effects

    LESSON 07: ADDING 2D HEX SHAPES AND OUTLINES PART 1

    In this lesson, we'll bring all our shape comps into the Cinema 4D comp. We'll make all the layers 3D and attach them to the null from Cinema 4D

    LESSON 08: ADDING 2D HEX SHAPES AND OUTLINES PART 2

    We'll create another comp and a different style animation that we'll offset

    LESSON 09: ADDING 2D HEX SHAPES AND OUTLINES PART 3

    We'll create some line and Hex Bursts

    LESSON 10: ADDING 2D HEX SHAPES AND OUTLINES PART 4

    We'll look at some final 2D shape animations by duplicating circles of a hex shape pattern

    LESSON 11: BRING THE SHAPES INTO THE MAIN C4D COMP

    Now it's time to bring all the shapes we've created over the last 4 lessons into the main comp, attaching it to the null from Cinema 4D and then offsetting each shape animation in time

    LESSON 12: STYLIZING THE SCENE

    You've made it all the way to the end of the course and now it's time to add, some color correction grain and glow to our scene. Let's get to it

     

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  3. Hud Futuristic Earth in Cinema 4D & After Effects

     

    In this motion design course, we'll look at creating and distorting a stylized futuristic HUD Earth. We'll begin this course in Cinema 4D where we'll create the earth using an earth texture and atom array, we'll add additional elements to the bottom of our earth and render to After Effects where we'll stylize and add our distortion effects.

    The assets used in this course are available for download.

    About the instructor

    Nick Harauz is a certified motion graphics instructor, and has previously been a master trainer for Red Giant, Cineversity from Maxon, Boris FX, Post Production World Online and Adobe Max. Nick has developed his motion design style over the last 15+ years and crafted high-end work for a variety of domestic and international brands such as Virgin Mobile, Proctor & Gamle, Diageo and MasterCard.

    Who is this course designed for?

    • Motion Designers
    • Cinema 4D users
    • After Effects users
       

    COURSE OVERVIEW

     

    LESSON 01: CREATING THE EARTH

    In the first lesson, we'll will take you through creating the HUD earth by downloading a free Earth Map, referencing it as a material and taking a sphere we'll create particles from using the hand Atom Array generator

    LESSON 02: CREATING THE EARTH OUTLINE

    We will modify our earth texture map in After Effects to create an Earth HUD outline

    LESSON 03: CREATING THE DISCS

    Several discs will be created and we'll offset and place them at the bottom of the earth

    LESSON 04: ANIMATING THE DISCS

    In this lesson, we'll look at using Mograph to animate our discs

    LESSON 05: ADDING MATERIAL TO THE DISCS

    We'll look at placing each of our discs within an atom array and then coloring them with the luminance channel of a material

    LESSON 06: ADDING HAIR TO THE 3RD DISCS

    In this lesson we'll look at adding hair to create thin strands around our HUD earth

    LESSON 07: RENDER TO AFTER EFFECTS

    Now, we'll create several Object buffers to render the Earth elements seperately to After Effects

    LESSON 08: PREPPING OUR AEC FILE AND OBJECT BUFFER LAYERS

    It's time to prepare our AEC file and reference each of the object buffers through track mattes

    LESSON 09: CREATING A BG

    In this lesson, we'll create a background with gradients and the grid effect

    LESSON 10: CREATING A GLITCH WITH FRACTAL NOISE

    We'll create a glitch with Fractal Noise and simple expressions

    LESSON 11: RGB GLITCHES

    In this lesson, we'll use the set channel effect to seperate our globe in independent color channels we'll control with the glitch effect and hold keyframes

    LESSON 12: ADDING TEXTURE, DISPLACEMENT AND TEXT

    We'll add a overlay texture along with displacement and some simple text

    LESSON 13: ADDING CIRCLE OUTLINES AND RODS

    In the last lesson, we'll look at cloning more object in Cinema 4D onto our Earth HUD

     

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  4. Hud Mixamo in Cinema 4D & After Effects

     

    In this course, instructor Nick Harauz will show you how to bring a Mixamo character into Cinema 4D and customize the animation. We'll look at decorating the character with Cinema 4D materials and then creating a grid floor pattern with the help of a free tool called JSplacement. We'll create an object buffer to have seperate control over our floor and man in After Effects. We'll then finalize our piece by adding HUD overlays and some simple shape animation in both 2D and 3D to finalize the layout.

    The assets used in this course are available for download.

    About the instructor

    Nick Harauz is a certified motion graphics instructor, and has previously been a master trainer for Red Giant, Cineversity from Maxon, Boris FX, Post Production World Online and Adobe Max. Nick has developed his motion design style over the last 15+ years and crafted high-end work for a variety of domestic and international brands such as Virgin Mobile, Proctor & Gamle, Diageo and MasterCard.

    Who is this course designed for?

    • Motion Designers
    • Cinema 4D users
    • After Effects users
       

    COURSE OVERVIEW

     

    LESSON 01: MIXAMO DOWNLOAD

    In this first lesson, we'll take you through how to download the Mixamo character we'll be using for our Cinema 4D project

    LESSON 02: TWEEKING THE MIXAMO ANIMATION

    We'll tweak the Mixamo animation by extending it and getting rid of unnecessary keyframes

    LESSON 03: ADDING MATERIALE TO THE CHARACTER

    In this lesson, we'll add a material to illuminate our subject and create a stylistic Hud look

    LESSON 04: CREATING THE FLOOR

    We'll create a floor out of a disc and reference a grid like material from Jspalcement; a free app

    LESSON 05: ADDING A CAMERA AND BLINKING LIGHT

    We'll make a visible light blink and add a camera to our scene we'll animate

    LESSON 06: RENDER TO AFTER EFFECTS

    Now it's time to setup our project to render to After Effects. The techniques shown here are replicated from the other 3 previous HUD courses

    LESSON 07: BRINGING AND PREPPING THE AEC FILE

    In this lesson, we'll bring in the AEC file and separate the 3 layers from the object buffers we created

    LESSON 08: PREPPING THE PSD FILES

    We'll download and prepare a free Photoshop HUD design for use in After Effects with courtesy of Adobe Stock

    LESSON 09: BRINGING AND POSITIONING THE PHOTOSHOP LAYERS IN AFTER EFFECTS

    We'll bring in our prepared PSD file and position it in our After Effects Comp

    LESSON 10: ANIMATING THE TEXT PLACEHOLDERS

    In this this, we'll convert our Photoshop text for After Effects and animate it. We'll also add some extra tex via the numbers Effect

    LESSON 11: ANIMATED HEARTH GRAPH

    Now, we'll animate a heart monitor with the help of After Effects Audio Effects

    LESSON 12: ANIMATED CHART

    We'll replace a static graphic with After Effects shapes and animate them with some simple expressions

    LESSON 13: DNA STRAND

    In this lesson, we'll create a new Cinema 4D project and a simple DNA strand that we'll bring into our After Effects comp via Cineware

    LESSON 13: STYLISTIC TOUCHES

    In this last lesson, we'll add some glow and unify the colors of our Comp better. That's it you've made it all the way to the end of this course!

     

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