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GruvDOne
04-12-2007, 03:44 AM
Well, hot of the presses... Rafi sent me an e-mail today with the curriculum for the Post NAB training. It is not going to be strickly about MoGraph the module, but rather the feild of Motion Graphics with an emphasis on MoGraph only on the second day. I think it is a smart approach, personally and I am excited to go.

Here's the skinny

Cinema4D and Motion Design. Day one

Preparation
Illustrator
- The file preparation
- In Illustrator: the best preparation.
Import to C4D
- The preference and the Merge option
- Motion capture Data, little intro (?)
In C4D
- Holes in letters
- Adding 3d
- The texture/shader work
- Specular, Diffuse and volume light for logos and text
- Quick tour through the render settings and formats as also Multi Pass.
- Cameras and Lights in Motion, techniques and the F-Curve manager
- Creating density in Space
- using color schemes (Kuler) and xpresso
Export and Pipeline-Connect
-To Shake, Motion, FCP, AfterEffects +external Comp, Photoshop (movies)
-Re-render parts
- teapot with revision (movie)
-WMXN as example and test
End of day one

MoGraph, Day 2
Introduction, what's all about. (Theory)
Clone
The Parts of Mograph, Objects and Effector & Co
Shaders, Xpresso and the cache
How to clone objects.
Linear, Radial and Grid, Parameter show
Produce
Fracture, Instance, Text, Tracer, Spline Mask,
Displace, Extrude, Spline Wrap
Effector, time to play
Delay, Formula, Inheritance, Random, Shader, Sound, Spline, Step, Target, Time.
Examples (Hands on training)
- Overshot and Text
- LED Display
- Light dome and the fire light
- Create a city
- Morph and Material blend
- and more



Hopefully some of you on the fence will decide to hop on board. See you there!
jackb602
04-12-2007, 05:19 AM
Is this the first announcement Maxon has made about the training? If it is, I wish they had given some advanced notice. If they're planning to offer any future hands on training, I definitely want to get on that mailing list.

Jack
GruvDOne
04-12-2007, 05:08 PM
Yeah, there wasn't really a formal announcement, I just got an e-mail from Rafi about it and asked my boss. I wold say drop her a line and she'll keep you in the loop on future trainings.
LucentDreams
04-12-2007, 05:17 PM
I think it wasn't a big announcement as its pretty limited seating for this specific one.

I hope this is th start of something new for maxon though, we may see more of these master classes at other tradeshows down the road and such.
GruvDOne
04-12-2007, 09:52 PM
I think it wasn't a big announcement as its pretty limited seating for this specific one.

I hope this is th start of something new for maxon though, we may see more of these master classes at other tradeshows down the road and such.

Yeah, I agree with the reasoning behind not making a big announcement, and I too hope that this is just the start of a promising new trend.

I have to say though I really, really like the small class-size. This one was limited to 15 people, and I think I was number 11 to sign up. If Maxon does expand this initiative I hope they continue to keep the student/instructor ratio low.

I am going to do a write-up on the class for the May issue of the 3D Attack Magazine, so anyone who may be on the fence will have a better idea of what to expect next time around.

Cheers!
govinda
04-12-2007, 10:33 PM
Who's the instructor?
GruvDOne
04-12-2007, 10:45 PM
Who's the instructor?


Dr. Sassi this time around
jackb602
04-14-2007, 12:54 AM
I am going to do a write-up on the class for the May issue of the 3D Attack Magazine, so anyone who may be on the fence will have a better idea of what to expect next time around.

Cheers!

Great idea. I'll look forward to it.

Jack
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