Next week is the Echo Conference. Echo is a conference geared towards church “artists, geeks, and storytellers”. Should be a cool!
I’ll be there with Will Doggett from LoopsInWorship.com. Hopefully we’ll see you there!
Echo Hub Conference
Greyscale Gorilla Cinema 4D Tutorials
I’ve been starting to dive into Cinema 4D lately. Mainly for the purposes of motion graphics but one day to hopefully be able to create some cool projection mapping stuff as well. Baby steps first.
I was looking for the Cinema 4D equivalent of VideoCopilot.com in order to learn the basics and eventually the more intense stuff. If you haven’t checked out Video Copilot it’s headed up by Andrew Kramer. He is one of those rare people with a crazy amount of knowledge and creativity who can teach others in a way that’s fun and easy to listen to.
I started some tutorials on Lynda.com and they were good for starting from nothing. They helped with the very basics of navigating the interface and were very helpful for that part. As time went on though they got a little laborious and hard to follow (I’m trying not to say boring, ha ha).
The more I searched for Cinema 4D info the more I came across GreyscaleGorilla.com. They have a couple of guys doing their tutorials and each one I’ve seen so far has been very good. Informative, easy to follow, and almost most importantly, fun and engaging!
So all that to say go check out their site if you’re interesting in diving into Cinema 4D. Especially now that C4D is included with After Effects I highly recommend at least knowing the basics. Well timed with the launch of the integration between AE and C4D is a new tutorial series on Greyscale Gorilla, Introduction to Cinema 4D.
While I haven’t gone through that series yet (I’m about to). From my experience on their site so far I’m sure it will be great!
Much like Video Copilot they offer unique products at a reasonable price. This helps offset all of their tutorials being free. At some point I’m sure I’ll be picking up some of their stuff.
So go and check out their site and start creating!
Welcome To MinistryAV.com
This site was created with the hope of helping the ministry AV community by sharing info that is worthwhile and will help others. Along the way I’ll post what I’ve been up to at my home church, Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale and anything else I think is cool.
Got a project or helpful information worth sharing? Reach me through the contact page, I would love to hear from you!
Rich
Cinema 4D And After Effects
I’ve been using Adobe Creative Cloud for about a year now. For a flat fee monthly subscription I get every Adobe product. It’s awesome! Instead of forking out thousands of dollars for everything, and then paying for upgrades every year, I pay one flat fee and I always have the latest and greatest.
And it’s that last part that makes CC awesome. The newest big upgrade to After Effects is its deep integration with Cinema 4D using a new plugin Cineware. If you don’t know Cinema 4D is a high end 3D program. It’s been used in lots of movies and TV programs. It also has a lot of motion graphics uses.
Like any program there’s a learning curve but it is one of the industry standard 3D programs and it’s not exorbitantly priced so it’s a good one to learn. Since it is a standard there are many resources out there to learn from. GreyscaleGorilla.com is one worth checking out.
With the recent CC upgrade After Effects now comes with Cinema 4D Lite, for free! With the Lite version you get a lot of features and you can get your feet wet in the world of 3D software without any extra investment.
Cineware eliminates the need to render out before sending things to After Effects. This makes the whole process a lot faster and a lot easier! Plus if you need to make a change you just go back to Cinema 4D and make the change. Those changes then go to After Effects in real time, no re-rendering!
While you may not use Cinema 4D for everything it is very powerful. Even if you’re not making 3D movies it’s still a great compositing tool for creating stills. Once you try it and learn the basics you’ll find lots of uses for it.
On a side note I recently made a couple of things with Cinema 4D, check them out!
