“If you are not a myth, whose reality are you?
If you are not a reality, whose myth are you?”
― Sun Ra
IN CLASS TODAY
- Intro to Cinema 4D
— Overview of Interface
— Essential Navigation Skills
— Position, Rotation, Scale
— How to work with Lighting (part 1), Primitive objects, Asset Browser, Materials presets, MoText - Discussion of “real / fake” in political context: “In the Age of AI, Is Seeing Still Believing?” (click to download)
- Student work: Denzel , Calisa , Various
ASSIGNMENTS
(1) “3 X MOOD LIGHTING” ASSIGNMENT: Create a scene in Cinema 4D by setting up some of the fancy preset objects from the Asset Manager into some configuration you like. Add lights into the scene, and play with their parameters (number of lights, position, direction, intensity, color, shadows). Add materials to objects from the Materials presets under the Asset Manager. When you get something you like, screen-capture the viewport. Then — using the exact same arrangement of objects — try a different lighting set-up, and create a very different mood via lighting. Screen-capture again. And repeat with a third light set-up. The goal is to get three very different impressions of your scene, just by changing the lighting.
Upload your work to our Padlet. Please write comments on your classmates’ Padlet posts!
(2) READING: Franz Kafka, “Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk” (1924) Download here
(3) View and carefully study the C4D tutorials video below, and this handout CLICK TO DOWNLOAD …VERY IMPORTANT –PLEASE DO THIS — THANK YOU !!! This information is essential for your success in this course…!
This video shows a way to do the assignment :
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