I decided to be productive during this quarantine and learn a new skill, and I have decided on learning Cinema 4D (C4D). I have always admired 3D animators and motion artists and always wanted to add that skill set to my toolkit. My hope is to be able to learn fundamentals so that I can begin to add 3D elements to the work I currently do and hopefully in the future be able to experiment more and really stretch my horizons in the program.

This first week was Orientation Week and the name of the game was primitive objects. Everything about this lesson was geared towards getting oriented to the basic controls of C4D and start to get a feel for modelling and using objects to start to build complex structures. The tutorial showed us how to build a small Ramen House and the assignment for the week was to model a scene representing “Our Favorite Place.” I decided to choose iconic Seattle landmarks and created a basic little scene.