Tutorial Details
- Software: Cinema 4D, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe After Effects
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Completion Time: 30 min - 1 hour
- Software/ Hardware Requirements: Apple Quad-Core Mac Pro
- Supporting Files/ Plugins: ProjectFiles
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Eventually we all want to move beyond tutorials and actually start to deal with clients. Whether at a production house or on your own, one of the most fundamental aspects of professional design is a solid project workflow. In this tutorial series, we’ll examine the different aspects of working in a project-like environment, and how our techniques interact with a client in a real-world situation.
Okay, full disclosure; I’m not saying that what I’m going to show here is going to work for everyone. This is just how I’ve done design and dealt with clients during the years that I’ve been doing this, and I can only hope that you take away something when it comes to moving on and looking to do this as a career. Remember that this is just an example and a guideline on the “hows and whys” of project workflow and management, and not the final word. And if any of you seasoned pros out there have any of your own tips to add, please be sure to share them in the comments so the greenhorns can learn something!
This is Day 1 in a series. Go to Day 2, or Day 3
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Thx for sharing!
Awesome tutorial! The only thing i didn’t like is the audio quality.. Terrible audio quality ruins the whole tutorial
Yeah, about that, I’m really sorry, but the flash compression really ate it on this file for some reason.
The other 2 parts of this tutorial are much better as far as audio quality goes. If it bothers enough people, I’ll talk to Kaleb and see if I can get another version up with better audio quality.
Man, it ruined the tutorial AND got a frowny-face? And my Friday was looking so good today…
The idea for uploading another version of the tutorials with fixed audio sounds great! Again awesome tutorial man! Great work flow
try setting a higher audio bit rate next time you squeeze your flv. the file size will be a little larger but your audio will be better. since the flv is being linked why don’t you just go ahead and re-squeeze it and replace the existing flv. no one will ever know.
Motion graphic? he he, yes i very like. Thanks for share
tuts goood
Thanks for sharing… cool GFX. environment amazing!
C’mon people, stop complaining abou the audio… Is not the best audio ok, but record another version of the tutorial only because of this? C’mon.
The tutorial is great. Awaiting next part!
Not recording another version.. just converting the original avi file into flv file with different settings in order to get better quality of the audio.
As long as I can hear the voices, it’s great
Nice tut.
Yeah another great tutorial!
excellent tuts.. thanks… looking forward for the others
its great to see the workflow of another motion designer. Great job!
I can’t see the preview movie. Anybody else?
Just wait…
Thanks a lot for these, very helpful indeed.
Over my days of using Illustrator and C4D i found a small tip to help import paths. After you have created your image in Illustrator (either by Live trace/Expand or Manually) Save as .EPS file with Illustrator 8 as the version. For reasons unknown to me, C4D seems happier using that file and imports all the paths of the image correctly and separately. (ie you wouldn’t need separate them in C4D.)
Just my 2 cents for the day.
Looking forward to part 3
my ears are bleeding. but really good tutorial thanks!
Hi man
thanks for all yours tips. This is what all we was wondering for a long time, cose this knowledge make the diference betwen an amateur and a professional work.
Thanks for all and please keep sharing your experience with us.
Sh*t I never even recognised the bad audio until someone had to point it out! Great tutorial on the subject matter it was covering (I mean what anal retention does it take to crit the slightly noisey audio when the tut was focused on outstanding CG and AE combination. Christ). Well done.
sry but those 1 FPS video is unwatchable for me, I can barely follow your steps
Thank you so much.. I learn New things