This book is written in a Cookbook style with short recipes designed to effectively teach tools in the minimum amount of time. Each recipe hits on a topic that can be combined or incorporated with other recipes to give you the building blocks you need to start making great designs with Cinema 4D. Rather than demonstrating how to make a few specific and extensive projects, the recipes create a solid base of knowledge to help the reader understand the tools available to foster their own creativity. This book is for professional artists working in architecture, design, production, or games and wanting to use Cinema 4D to create amazing 3D graphics. It is for anyone who wants to quickly get up to speed with Cinema 4D to create 3D projects that run laps around simple 2D designs.

Author Biography

Simon Russell is a freelance animation director based in London. Originally from Bath in South West England, Simon moved to London to study Moving Image Design. He has been working in animation and motion graphic design since 2001. His first job was with Cartoon Network before working as an art director at Addiction Worldwide. He then went on to join a startup before deciding to go it alone as a freelancer in 2010. Simon has produced work for many global brands such as Nike, Land Rover, and EA. He also creates tutorials and plugins as well as self-initiated creative work. Michael Szabo is a freelance motion graphics artist in Miami,FL who probably doesn't go a day without opening Cinema 4D and using it for both business and for fun.As a kid,he was always curious about moving images and his no-budget home movies inspired him to learn design applications, such as Final Cut Pro, Motion,Photoshop,After Effects, and Cinema 4D on his own, because they just weren't going to magically start teaching themselves to him.He has always been interested in learning new techniques and has always tried to design something better than he did the day before. You can find him at http://www.bigmikedesign.com and on Twitter at @bigmikedesign.