Create a Realistic Subway Station Scene using Cinema 4D and After Effects
This 2 part tutorial takes us underground to examine how to build a 3D model of a subway train and make it zip past a real subway platform. First, we’ll use Cinema 4D to craft a subway car using a few basic primitive shapes, while adding detail with Sweep, Extrude, and Loft NURBS elements. Then, we’ll texture and light our car to create a realistic look, and allow our CG car to blend in with our real subway environment. Finally, the MoGraph module will help us clone our car and make a long train to animate into our scene, and then we’ll do some quick adjustments in After Effects to put the finishing touches on our subway station composite.
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The project files can be found at the following link: http://cgtuts.s3.cdn.plus.org/092_C4D_Subway/subwayfiles.zip .
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By Michael Szabo
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Awesome TUT! Keep it up!
hey it’s really cool
Wow, that’s a tiny train. And it doesn’t stop at the station?
On the “not-so-picky” side, I’d say it’s a nice try, but it has a ways to go to being a “realistic” looking subway train that blends in with the photo. The coloring/lighting is off and looks way too cut out. Seems like you could have created this effect VERY quickly and ultra realistic using a still photo of the train. I would have liked to see something not so flat to justify building this in 3D.
Excellent, Thank you for all this training.
Thanks for the tutorial I learnt a lot appreciate it.
Awesome. It is great to watch such tutorials witch integration in AE. It’s smth u see in films. Thenks m8!
poooor tut !!!Sorry!!
i also dont think its as realistic and awesome looking as it could have been… sorry
That´s realistic?
doing…!!!
You could save yourself a shit load of time and just do the entire thing in AE because apart from zooming out slightly, there’s no noticeable 3D in this.
First off all, the size of the train, relative to the scene is totally off!! The blacks dont match, and there’s no reflection from the train on either the ceiling or the floor. You know, i think its getting to the point that people are just putting really bad tutorials just to make money. Compositing is about the detail, not what software or what buttons to push. Is about thinking what you are doing and paying attention,anybdy can push buttons. What a dissapointment.
Don’T cry!
Agreed. Seems like the whole ‘tuts’ family is scraping the bottom of the barrel for content.
that was terrible and could have been done in after effects.
Great. Thanks.
This is an awesome tut to get good insight of C4D’s capabilities. Thanks!
thanks for the tut, I learned some new tricks to try out…
As your first tutorial you have made a great job !!
Michael…
Gracias por el excelente aporte
como siempre
lo mejor C4D y AE
muy bueno
digan lo que digan……seagradece por el aporte
Great Job!
Thanks
Keep up the good work
I’m new to C4D and your tutorial is very interesting and very well done. I really like it. Thanks.