And even the screen has multiple pieces is a pretty detailed model. That's holding all the pieces of the phone and here's the front of the phone. So if I open up this phone, now this is the Knoll. And what I mean is, um, you need to make sure that if you want to stick something on this screen, you need to have a reference object in the scene that you can then import into after effects. So the first thing you need to do is you need to make sure that you prepare this cinema four D file a certain way.
Joey Korenman (02:44): Um, and I want to make sure that I'm able to keep that when I, um, you know, when I composite something in the screen, so I'm gonna show you how to do that. So this nice diagonal highlight that's going across the phone that you sort of see on a lot of cell phone commercials, that is actually just a reflection. And I also rendered with global illumination, which is why it's taking forever to render for you guys. And I used that, so that it actually gives me a nice reflection on the phone. And then I used a couple of, um, of just planes with a white texture on it. Um, you know, I've lit this in a specific way, uh, actually just using, um, one of the presets that comes with cinema 4d called the array light. And so let me, let me just do a quick render here and show you what this looks like. Joey Korenman (01:52): And, um, what I want to be able to do is composite, whatever I want onto that screen in after effects. Really all that's going on is you've got an iPhone model and it spins around and kind of lands in that's it all right. You can do this entire tutorial, the exact same way.
And if you have cinema 4d light, and that's the only version that you have, the free one that comes with after effects, that's okay. Now I'm not going to get too deep into this, cause this is not a cinema 4d tutorial. So let's talk about, first of all, what are, what are starting elements are here? So I'm gonna hop into cinema 4d and show you my project. And we're going to sort of go over a lot of other compositing things, including using multi-layered EXR files and a lot of really geeky cool stuff. Joey Korenman (01:00): So in this video, we are going to cover how to sync up your after effects animation with 3d renders using cinema 4d. Now let's hop into after effects and get started. Don't forget to sign up for a free student account so you can grab the project files from this lesson, as well as from any other lesson on school emotion.
I'm going to show you a lot of compositing tricks. And we're going to talk about how to really lock those two programs together and get your 2d animation from after effects to sync up 3d animation from cinema 4d, we're going to use pre-rendered elements, but we're also going to use CINAware to pull in information. This is a very common thing you have to do as a motion graphics artists.
Today's video is going to be about compositing animation from after effects with 3d animation, from cinema 40. Joey Korenman (00:17): Joey here at School of Motion and welcome to day 29 of 30 Days of After Effects.