Friday, 31 March 2017

Cinema 4D: As a Design Tool








My last session for C4D with Jay this year - I have to say I was surprised at how much I loved this session. It had to be one of my favourites simply because of how much I learned. The thing with 4D is that the more you put into it the more rewards you get out of it, it's so easy to use. The most surprising thing for this session was how easy the bottle cap was to create. I thought with the unique shape of it it would be difficult, but it was one of the easiest ones to create. Based off the shape of it it was just piling together different circles and spreading them out, then creating a shape over the top. 

One of the things I liked about this sessions was the availability to use what we'd created as templates, and could take them home and edit the maps that Jay gave us. This is what I did shown below, inspired by my love for Once Upon a Time and Foxes. I created something that was unique and individual so instead of using a glass bottle I wanted to create something "frosted" or matte, which gave the design a bit more of an professional and expensive finish. 

My favourite part of the process this year was 4D. I was surprised at how I found this, because normally I would shy away from software that involves 3D process because of how complex I initially thought it would be. This session proved me completely wrong, as if I followed it slowly then it would actually be quite easy to do. I was really impressed with how far my skills went this year.