EJ Hassenfratz (00:29): One of the things a lot of people don't know is that if you own a subscription to creative cloud, you actually own a copy of cinema 4d and it's that cinema 4d light version. The thing is, is it's a little hard to get to. And the reason for that is, is you actually have to open cinema 4d light through after effects. I know it's a little weird, but here's how you open up cinema 4d light. You just go in after effects, go to file new max on cinema 40 file. And once you jump on that, it will then prompt you to save an entitled default file. I'm just going to save this to desktop and I'll, I've done this before, so I'm just going to replace that. And what's going to happen is that's going to launch cinema 4d light. So, boom, you now have a copy of cinema 4d that you have full access to as long as you have your creative cloud subscription access, which is pretty cool.
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EJ Hassenfratz (01:23): So you might be thinking, all right, I'm all set here. I have a version of cinema 4d. Why would I need to shell out my cold hard cash for the full studio version when I have cinema 4d already? So that's what we're going to be talking about in this video and talking about the differences between light and studio. So let's go ahead and begin by talking about what is included in the light version of cinema 4d. All right. So the first thing you're going to notice is we have the full blown cinema 4d interface, and mostly this is the same as what you would see in cinema 4d studio version. So in this regard, light is really great for getting used to how cinema 4d works in where everything is as well as just kind of navigating around in 3d space. So we have most of the menus that we have in studio.
EJ Hassenfratz (04:51): And speaking of cameras, there's a selection of the type of cameras you can use. Again, most people use the basic camera, so that's really cool. You can look through it, you can change the focal length, all that good stuff, just like, you know, an after effects camera. And then we have all of our lights. So this is pretty incredible that the free version that comes with after effects of cinema 4d, uh, has all of this stuff. I mean, it, it, you have no excuses to not learn 3d. And if you want to learn cinema 4d, get used to the workflow again, get used to the menus, all that good stuff. This is a really great, a great way to remove that, that barrier of like, well, I can't afford the full studio version, right? You have no excuse. This is, this is what you get with a creative cloud subscription.
EJ Hassenfratz (07:43): Just because you really don't have to think about that aspect of, uh, of, of a scene when you're working in 2d, right? You're, you're basically dealing with 2d shapes and you don't need to learn, uh, about real-world kind of lighting techniques and photography lighting and all that stuff, or F you know, photo studio lighting. So this has the ability to create all these objects. It also has the ability to animate stuff. So we've got a full timeline here. You can set key frames, any key frameable animation is possible inside of cinema four D light, which is really, really amazing. Uh, you can see, we have all different types of textures here. I have a gold texture. So the material system is pretty robust. It has a lot of the same material creation, uh, functionality as the full studio version. We can get reflect and see if you like your shiny, shiny materials.
EJ Hassenfratz (12:32): So you might be wondering, well, that completely stops me from working at this. Like, I don't want to build this scene and then I have no way to render out my scene here. You might be, you might be thinking now, like, what's the point then? Well, there's actually a workaround. Okay. So let's just go ahead and jump into after effects. All right. So here we are an after effects. And one of the cool things about cinema 4d in general is the powerful integration with after effects. So one of the cool things you can actually import a cinema 4d file here. So I'm going to go and grab my cinema 4d light scene demo. Again, you have access to this file. So go ahead and download it so you can follow along and I'm just going to open this. Okay. And you're going to see that the cinema 4d file imported into after effects, just like any other asset or footage.
EJ Hassenfratz (19:56): So while cinema 4d light does have some of those basic elements of MoGraph like, like I showed you with the fracture object in the plane and random effectors, you are missing out on a majority of the powerful animation features that come with the full studio version and on the subject of animation, if you're into, you know, animating characters and after-effects fortunately character rigging and animation is not supported in lights either. So here's another example of a feature that's not included in cinema 4d light. And it's actually one of my favorite features to play around with in that is the powerful dynamics engine. So dynamics is a real world physics engine inside of cinema 4d studio that allows you to add physics to your objects, allowing the objects to fall Clyde squish in inflates among other things it's extremely easy to do in super, super powerful.
EJ Hassenfratz (23:47): So speaking of third party things like renderers, cinema 4d light does not allow you to install or use any plugin. So anything from grayscale gorilla, or if you've heard of X particles, which is a popular particle and dynamic system, that's becoming industry standard for a lot of cinema, 4d artists, all of those things will not be usable. No plug-ins whatsoever. So that's kind of a biggie. All right. So that covers some of the major differences between light and studio versions of cinema 4d. And like I said before, one of the most important things about the light version is that if you're wanting to learn cinema 4d, it removes any excuses of you not actually learning cinema 4d. If you have a creative cloud subscription, boom, you have a version of cinema 4d that for beginners is perfect because again, you have the full interface or most of the interface, uh, you can get used to how cinema 4d works, the workflow.
EJ Hassenfratz (25:43): So hopefully this video gives you a little bit more insight into which version of cinema 4d is best for you. And if you're completely new to cinema 4d, or if you've been using cinema 4d for a while, and you just aren't quite getting it, you've been watching YouTube videos or tutorials, and you're just, you're not quite understanding what all the different functions are that those tutorial artists are using and, or you just don't feel that comfortable in 3d. I have a course on school of motion called cinema 4d base camp. That takes you from zero to cinema 4d artists in just a few weeks. And it's going to teach you all of the really important foundational skills that you need to be successful as a cinema 4d artists, and stay ahead in the motion graphics industry. Now, this is a course that I developed, uh, that I wish I had when I started learning cinema 4d years and years and years ago, as it really will set you apart from everyone else.
EJ Hassenfratz (26:45): As far as just getting those fundamentals, get things like lighting super important. Not a lot of people understand this. We'll teach you some of those fundamental skills to have your work look so much better than it could have. Otherwise, if you've been holding out on learning cinema 4d, definitely check out cinema 4d base camp, you can find it on the school of motion courses page, or you can find the link in the video description here. By the way, when you sign up to cinema 4d base camp, you have a limited time access to the educational version of the full blown studio version with all of the advanced features that you can use during the class. So that is a huge thing. You'll be learning in that full studio version with all of those features at your fingertips that I just showed you in this video. So how's that for a perk, right? Well, hopefully I'll see you in an upcoming cinema 4d base camp session. Thank you so much for watching. 2ff7e9595c