Explore Cinema 4D's user interface, including the viewport, object manager, attribute manager, coordinate manager, material manager, timeline, and essential tools for animation.

Master Cinema 4D navigation and views, panning, zooming, zooming out, and rotation with keyboard and alt-click, tilt the camera, adjust focal length, and switch between perspective and orthographic views.

Explore parametric objects in Cinema 4D, starting with a cube, and learn how attribute and object managers show readings when selected, plus visibility and freeze transform controls.

Explore object properties for cube, cylinder, and disk in Cinema 4D, adjusting size, segments, fill, fillet radius, orientation, caps, slices, and inner/outer radii to shape edges and forms.

Learn to move, rotate, and scale objects with the live selection, move, rotate, and scale tools using axis arrows. Use shift to move, rotate, or scale in ten-unit increments.

Explore the parenting concept in Cinema 4D by turning a cube and a cylinder into parent and child. Observe how moving the parent shifts the child.

Learn to use null objects in Cinema 4D as controllers to rotate a pair without changing its own rotation; create and name a zero position null as the parent.

Learn to create a dining table and chair in Cinema 4D from basic cubes to a grouped model, mastering precise sizing, coordinates, duplication, and rotation.

Master the switch from parametric to editable objects in Cinema 4D by converting with the C key, and explore points, edges, and faces to edit geometry directly.

enable axis lets you reposition an object's rotation axis after making it editable with c, allowing rotation around a custom center rather than the object's default center.

Explore how to apply and manage the Phong tag in Cinema 4D to produce smooth, shiny renders, control edge sharpness, and reuse the tag on objects for consistent lighting.

Learn to use Cinema 4D selection tools to pick faces and loops with live, rectangle, lasso, and polygon selections, plus keyboard shortcuts for quick editing.

Select a face and use the line cut tool (press K or KK) to place two points and cut. Toggle visible area to apply cuts only to visible geometry.

Master plane cut and loop cut techniques in Cinema 4D by selecting faces, creating plane cuts, and adjusting loop cuts with plus, minus, shift, and offset options.

Explore the extrude and inner extrude tools in Cinema 4D, creating, cutting, and editing polygons with the loop path cut tool, live selection, and face manipulation to build complex shapes.

Explore the bevel tool by selecting edges, applying offset and subdivisions to create smooth, beveled edges, and compare it to the fillet option on parametric cubes.

Explore creating splines in Cinema 4D using parametric and custom pen tool workflows, adjust with move tools, choose spline types, and use spline smoother, sketch, and weld to close shapes.

Explore parametric splines in Cinema 4D, creating text, star, circle and arc shapes with adjustable radius, twist, points, and axis orientation for motion graphics and After Effects animations.

Learn to import splines from Illustrator into Cinema 4D and convert parametric splines to editable splines, with a stroke-only Illustrator file and resizing the imported spline.

Learn subdivision surface in Cinema 4D, adding subdivisions to smooth edges and shapes, and apply via click or alt while adjusting bevel and editor versus renderer results.

Learn how to use cinema 4d lathe to transform splines into a 3d form by revolving profiles created with the pen tool, refining with chamfer and bevel for smooth edges.

Create a parametric helix and distribute shapes along it to form a sweep, using circle or star shapes and adjusting end growth, start growth, and rotation for animations.

Learn to extrude splines in Cinema 4D, using the extrude tool to push shapes along the x, y, and z axes, adjust subdivisions, caps, and bevel-like radius and steps.

Learn to use the loft tool in Cinema 4D by shaping circles, duplicating profiles with ctrl, adjusting radii for complex forms, and refining meshes with subdivision, fillet, and gap bevel.

Explore the bezier tool in Cinema 4D, and use point mode and grid points to shape meshes. Adjust subdivisions on x, y, and z to create pillows and enable simple animations.

Explore bend deformers in Cinema 4D to bend cubes and splines, adjust size, strength, and angle, and use fit to parent for exact sizing and animation control.

Discover how falloff governs where bend strength applies by using field objects, such as box fields, to limit effects to the portion inside the field.

Explore four Cinema 4D deformers—bulge, shear, taper, and twist—by applying them to multiple cubes, adjusting strength, curvature, fit to parent, and angle to sculpt shapes.

Explore how to apply multiple deformers to a single object in Cinema 4D, showing how twist, bend, and taper interact, and why the order of deformers matters.

Explore the form deformer in Cinema 4D by applying a grid and moving points to sculpt smooth bulged shapes on messy objects.

Explore warp and spline warp in Cinema 4D, learn to extrude text, group with a null object, and wrap objects around cylindrical or spherical shapes for creative animation.

Explore Cinema 4D bevel deformer and editable object workflows to apply bevels, adjust offset, subdivisions, depth, and edge count for diverse bevel shapes.

Explore the collision deformer by pairing a plane with a colliding object, configuring colliders, and adjusting size, steps, stretching, and relaxation to create controlled collision effects.

Explore the bevel deformer in cinema 4d to add bevels to parametric and editable objects, adjusting offset, subdivisions, and depth, while managing edge propagation.

Apply the explosion deformer to a sphere, adjust strength to create an explosion, then tune speed, angle, size, and randomness to control the particles in Cinema 4D.

Explore Cinema 4D's formula deformer to animate planes with customizable strength and falloff, using X, Z, spherical, cylindrical, or box field shapes.

Apply the melt deformer to a sphere, adjust strength, radius, vertical and radial randomness, melted size, and noise to create a melting animation.

Explore the shatter deformer in Cinema 4D by shaping a basic object, adjusting size, segments, strength, decay, end size, angle, speed, and randomness for dynamic shattering.

Explore creating and editing array clones around a center using instance objects in Cinema 4D, adjust radius, copies, amplitude, and frequency, and animate with sweep and rotation.

Explore atom array by applying a platonic object, creating cylinders and spheres at edges and points, adjust cylinder and sphere radii, and add subdivisions for smoother results.

Explore how to create and apply boolean operations in Cinema 4D, using A and B cubes to perform subtract, intersect, union, and A without B for hard surface modeling.

Learn to use spline mask by creating and duplicating splines inside an instance object, and apply union and subtract operations to see A subtract B and B subtract A results.

Create and connect two spheres into a metal ball in Cinema 4D, adjust null value and subdivisions for smooth render results, achieving a melting, metal-atom like connection for watery effects.

Create a symmetry object in Cinema 4D using the symmetry instance with mirror planes on z and y, then mirror along the x or z axes.

Master the cloner in Cinema 4D to create clones with linear, radial, grid, and honeycomb arrays, and control count, offset, angles, and object-based distribution on surfaces, vertices, edges, or volume.

Learn to use volume builder and volume measure in cinema 4d to create volumes with boolean like operations (union, subtract, intersect) and convert to a mesh.

Build a robot model in Cinema 4D by blocking with a cube, extruding and beveling edges, applying loop cuts and subdivision surfaces, and splitting parts for separate color.

Create a robot model in Cinema 4D from cube and cylinder primitives, applying bevels and subdivision surfaces. Name parts chest, neck, hip, head, and craft hands with loops and fingers.

Model a hand in cinema 4d by selecting and optimizing points, applying loop cuts, and using spline wrap with cylinders and cloners for a complete hand.

Learn to model a robot in Cinema 4D from scratch by building and duplicating components, aligning axes, and refining shapes with loop cuts, move, rotate, and scale tools.

Create a robot wheel in cinema 4d by drawing splines with the pen tool, beveling, distributing along a spline, and extruding a connected wheel hub.

Learn to set up an omni light in Cinema 4D, adjust color, temperature, intensity, and shadows, and compare light types, shadows, ambient occlusion, and render settings for realistic scenes.

learn how to use area lights in cinema 4d, replacing omni lights, adjust area size, position, rotation, and shadows, and duplicate lights while exploring world coordinates and top view.

Explore spotlight and target light in Cinema 4D, adjusting size, projection length, and shadows for theatrical scenes. Learn how a null object controls projection for animated lighting.

Explore visible light and volumetric lighting in Cinema 4D, learning how visibility settings reveal light sources, control projection distance, and enhance object interactions with volumetric and inverse volumetric modes.

Create an infinite floor and set up area lights for three point lighting, adjusting colors and shadows. Add a camera with focal length tweaks and render previews.