Create a Cityscape with Cinema 4D + Photoshop

Welcome to this course on Creating a Cityscape Using Cinema 4D + Photoshop.

In this series of lessons we will cover a lot of topics to give you a solid understanding of the entire architectural visualization workflow including:

01. The creative and technical steps involved with 3D modeling the architecture.

• Polygon modeling and the make editable function
• Creating extrusions for the window frames and glass
• Store selections 
• Texturing
• Duplicating geometry using the MoGraph cloner and array object
• Deformers

02. Creating the city blocks

• Render instances and tips for improving CPU performance
• Adding entourage to populate the scene.
• The differences between a 3D tree and a cutout
• Locating free content within the asset browser 
• Links to external free 3D model resources
• Camera views and compositional techniques

03. Texturing the street with Adobe Photoshop

• Painting Techniques
• Layer Masks
• File Organization
• Importing custom brushes 
• File preparation

04. Explore 3 different light set-ups

• HDRI image with infinite light and fill light
• Physical Sky
• Nighttime scene including use of atmospheric fog effects

05. Rendering and optimization for faster render times. 

• Render Optimization
• Render Settings
• Object Buffers

06. Post-Production Techniques in Adobe Photoshop 

• File Organization
• Channels and Selections
• Masking
• Adjustment Layers
• Glows, Sharpening, Depth of Field
• Final Output