Winter 2025
Maxon Student Licensing
Rendering Animation in C4D
Team Render Server (login/pass in Educat)
Setting up Team Render
Parabola Diagram
Pendulum Diagram
Curves Illustration
Composition and Storyboards
NMU AD Foundations Website.
texturer.com
textures.com
C4DCenter
3dtextures
PolyHaven
You Already Have My Permission. Sound source.
Freesound Project. Sound source for sound effects.
Freeplay. Sound source (not all are copyright-free).
MusOpen. Copyright free classical music.
Freemusicarchive. Use the Creative Commons licensed files.
YouTube Audio Library
Adobe Color - color palette generator
Keep your computer awake: Jiggler or Amphetamine
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Jan 15: AE - Interface Review
Jan 15:
AE - Keyframes Review
Jan 15:
AE - Importing Assets Review
Jan 15: AE - Shapes, Paths, Anchor Review
Jan 15: AE - Easing Review
Jan 15: AE - Effects (FX), Adjustment Layers
Jan 15: AE - Rendering movies with Render Queue (MP4) Review
Jan 22: AE - Motion Blur Review
Jan 22:
AE - Nesting Review
Jan 22: AE - Looping
Jan 27: AE - Easing, Motion Graph
Jan 29: AE - Parenting
Feb 3 AE - Repeater
Feb 5: CCBend It Fix (optional)
Feb 10: C4D - Introduction to interface Review
Feb 10: C4D - Primitives and transform Review
Feb 10: C4D - Splines Review
Feb 10: C4D - Lathe Review
Feb 10: C4D Extrude Review
Feb 10: C4D - Sweep Review
Feb 10: C4D - Loft Review
Feb 10: C4D - Booleans Review
Feb 12: C4D - Keyframes
Feb 12: C4D - F-Curves
Feb 17: C4D - Deformers Review
Feb 17: C4D - Squash-Stretch Deformer
Feb 17: C4D - Hierarchy, Axis
Feb 17: C4D - Animating Parameters
Feb 19:
C4D - Materials (Redshift) (introduction)
optional:
4D - Material Mapping
Feb 19: C4D - Asset Browser Review
Feb 19: C4D: Lights Redshift Review
Feb 19: C4D: Background, Sky Redshift Review
Feb 24: C4D: Rendering Animation
Feb 24: C4D: Team Render Setup
Feb 24 optional: C4D: Stage Object (not comprehensive, more of a reminder)
Feb 26: C4D: Post Production in AE (*remember to use 24fps!)
Feb 26: AE - Sound Review
Useful: C4D Depth of Field
Feb 26 optional: AE - Motion Blur Fix
Mar 12: C4D - Cloners Review
Mar 12: C4D - Simulations
Mar 12 optional: C4D - Volume Builder/Mesher
Mar 19: C4D - Xpresso and User Data
Mar 19 optional: C4D - Xpresso Rope-Pulley Rig walkthrough (28min, lots of stuff)
optional: C4D - Target Tag for rigging machines
Mar 26 optional: C4D - Particles
optional: Subdivisions 1 - geometric modeling
optional: Subdivisions 2- organic modeling
AE - Image Sequences
AE - Rendering Movies with Render Queue (ProRes/Animation QT format)
AE - Rendering Movies with Media Encoder (mp4/h264 format)
AE - 3D Layers
PSD - Introduction to interface
PSD - Selections
PSD - Layers and Transform
PSD - Painting/Drawing
PSD - Layer Masks
PSD - Adjustment Layers
PSD - Smart Selections
PSD - Select and Mask
PSD - Paths
PSD - Clone
PSD - Heal
PSD - Custom Brushes
C4D - Placement Tools
C4D - Sculpting
C4D - Camera Matching and Compositing
C4D - Motion Tracking
C4D - Random Effector
C4D - Multishader, Random Colors