Bring your designs to life with Michael Rigley’s full 3D animation workflow. Plan scenes, refine edits, animate in Cinema 4D, and composite in After Effects. Learn the professional techniques needed to create polished, high-end motion work.
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Bring your designs to life as award-winning art director Michael Rigley guides you through his entire 3D animation and production workflow. Start off by planning out your scenes, experiment with the editorial process, learn detailed 3D animation techniques in Cinema 4D, and finish up by compositing in After Effects. Whether you’re taking this course as a follow-up to Design for Production: Workflow, or just want to follow along and sharpen your skills, this class will teach you professional workflows to produce incredible projects of your own.
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A guided path through every stage of the course, broken down into focused lessons you can work through at your own pace.
Lesson 1
Get ready to dive into animation as Michael shows you how to lay the foundation for a successful project. He’ll guide you through the various stages of production, and familiarize you with the tools you’ll be using along the way. Then you’ll get hands-on sourcing audio and building a boardomatic to plan out the full sequence.
Lesson 2
Go through the first stages of 3D animation as Michael shows you how to build an animatic. Here, you’ll set up the project file and begin blocking out the camera and basic animation. Michael covers the importance of prototyping animation and leads through his complex problem solving process.
Lesson 3
Now it’s time to apply what we’ve learned from prototyping to our active scene. Michael breaks down how to integrate components into the shot and animate additional elements. With our cameras and basic timing established, we can now add complexity back into the scene. Lastly, we’ll do lighting and render checks before we send off low sample outputs.
Lesson 4
For our final lesson, we pull together all the hard work in After Effects as Michael demonstrates his approach to multi-pass compositing. Topics range from importing and comp setup to keyframing light passes, setting up effects, and creating the final look. Finally we’ll cover exporting and assess the final product.
Michael Rigley is an Emmy-winning art director, 3D and motion designer whose career spans film, broadcast, gaming, VR, and realtime graphics. Based in Los Angeles, he has led creative work for major brands and studios including Halo, Battlefield, Alienware, Intel, and Adobe. With a signature style rooted in geometric form and cinematic motion, Michael crafts design-driven visuals that merge deep technical skill with world-class concept and storycraft.
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Get ready to dive into animation as Michael shows you how to lay the foundation for a successful project. He’ll guide you through the various stages of production, and familiarize you with the tools you’ll be using along the way. Then you’ll get hands-on sourcing audio and building a boardomatic to plan out the full sequence.
Go through the first stages of 3D animation as Michael shows you how to build an animatic. Here, you’ll set up the project file and begin blocking out the camera and basic animation. Michael covers the importance of prototyping animation and leads through his complex problem solving process.
Now it’s time to apply what we’ve learned from prototyping to our active scene. Michael breaks down how to integrate components into the shot and animate additional elements. With our cameras and basic timing established, we can now add complexity back into the scene. Lastly, we’ll do lighting and render checks before we send off low sample outputs.
For our final lesson, we pull together all the hard work in After Effects as Michael demonstrates his approach to multi-pass compositing. Topics range from importing and comp setup to keyframing light passes, setting up effects, and creating the final look. Finally we’ll cover exporting and assess the final product.
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