This course will provide you with valuable knowledge in 3D design: the most important features in Illustrator for creating vector graphics, as well as the essential functions of modeling, texturing, scene setup, lighting, and rendering with Cinema 4D. In addition, you’ll be introduced to advanced topics in 3D visualization using Cinema 4D.
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Certificates: 3D Designer" certificate
Certificate "Cinema 4D Advanced" -
Additional Certificates: Certificate in “Image Editing and Design with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator”
"3D Visualization with Cinema 4D" Certificate -
Examination: Praxisbezogene Projektarbeiten mit Abschlusspräsentationen
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Teaching Times: Full-timeMonday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. (in weeks with public holidays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:10 p.m.)
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Language of Instruction: German
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Duration: 16 Weeks
3D visualization with Cinema 4D
Basics (approx. 1 day)
Basics of 3D Visualization
Areas of Application
Cinema 4D User Interface
Setting Up the Layout, Working in the Editor
Asset Browser, AI-powered asset search
Modeling (approx. 10 days)
Modeling with basic objects
Creating and editing splines,
generators, metaballs, Boolean objects
Deformation objects
Masking with field objects
Selection techniques
Mesh editing, mesh testing
Mesh cutting
Guide lines and snapping
Dynamic placement and scattering
Subdivision surface
Volume modeling
Sculpting
Standard Materials (approx. 3 days)
Material Creation and Management
Material channels, shaders, texture mapping
Generating texture templates and reference images with AI, usage rights
Standard light objects, standard renderer
BodyPaint 3D, HAIR
Redshift (approx. 3 days)
Introduction, system settings
Sample scene, Redshift RenderView
Redshift Node Editor
Node RS Standard, Redshift Shader
Rendering (approx. 1 day)
Camera objects
Redshift renderer
AI-powered denoising (OptiX, OIDN)
Multi-pass rendering
Render Manager
Staging and light (approx. 2 days)
Redshift light objects
Three-point lighting
Portal light, IES light
Calibrating the camera
High Dynamic Range Images
Caustics and dispersion
Animation (approx. 10 days)
Animation palette and timeline
Keyframe animation
Cyclic animations
Path animations, camera movement
Motion camera, stage object
XPresso, user data
Bullet simulation
Caching in Alembic format
Simulation of soft objects
Clothing simulation
Particle simulation
MoGraph
Character animation
motion tracking
Project work (approx. 10 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Image Editing and Design with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop CC – Image Editing and Artificial Intelligence (approx. 10 days)
Introduction and Work Environment
Color and Brushes
Selection and Masking
Layers and Smart Objects
Tone and Color Correction
Composition and Transformation
AI-Based Image Editing, Firefly
Camera Raw and RAW Optimization
Text, Shapes, and Paths
Output and Automation
Technical Knowledge
Adobe Illustrator CC – Vector Graphics and Artificial Intelligence (approx. 5 days)
Basics of vector graphics, workspaces, anchor points
Firefly in Illustrator, generative shapes, colors, symbols
Text-to-Vector, generative recoloring, and color psychology
Interlacing and 3D effects
Font identification with AI
Automatic Shape Corrections
Corporate Design Development
Icon Design and UI Components
Infographics and Charts
Project work (approx. 5 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Cinema 4D Advanced
Masking (approx. 1 day)
Field-Based Vertex Maps, Field Planes, Modifier Field Planes, and Field Drivers
Python Field and Python Effector, AI-assisted code generation
Redshift Advanced (approx. 5 days)
Advanced Features of RS RenderView
ACES Color Management
Advanced functionality of RS light objects
Procedural lighting via Shader Graph
Static and animated gobos
Sun, Sky, and Clouds
Redshift Environment
Transparent and translucent materials
Backlighting
Adaptive tessellation and displacement
Varying, Masking, and Blending Materials
Redshift Material Nodes
Line art via toon shading
Volumetric Objects
AI Denoising for Animations, Temporal Stability
Simulation of solid and soft bodies (approx. 2 days)
Collisions with solid bodies (rigid bodies)
Mechanical joints, breaking force
Aerodynamics
Mixing simulation and static animation
Simulation of soft bodies (Soft Bodies)
Plastic deformation
Clothing simulation
Particle simulation (approx. 3 days)
Basic emitter, particle groups
Visualization of particles
Spline emitter and mesh emitter
Synchronization of self-animation of the particles and movement of the particle flow
Reproduce emitter
Force objects
Particle conditions and modifiers
Particle collisions
Force transmission to dynamic objects
Liquid simulation (approx. 2 days)
Fundamentals of particle-based liquid simulation
Viscosity and surface tension
Emitter liquid filling, splashing, wave formation
Collisions with liquid particles
Force transmission to dynamic objects
Pyro-Simulation (approx. 2 days)
Fundamentals of Voxel-Based Fluid Simulation
Pyro Materials
Flames, Smoke, Fog, and Explosions
Dynamic Collisions with Pyro Flows
Caching and Importing Pyro Volumes
Analyzing Simulation Parameters and Cache Issues Using AI
Project work (approx. 5 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Changes are possible, the course content is updated regularly.
After completing the course, you will be proficient in the essential functions of modeling, texturing, composition, lighting, and rendering with Cinema 4D. You’ll also be able to work confidently with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and use Adobe Firefly to optimize design processes, automate designs, and develop new creative ideas.
In addition, you are proficient in advanced 3D visualization techniques using Cinema 4D. You make targeted use of rigid-body and soft-body simulations, particle simulations, liquid simulations, and pyro simulations, and optimize your projects for realistic renderings using the Redshift renderer.
Media designers, graphic designers, web designers and specialists from artistic professions or with relevant professional experience.
3D visualization is used in the fields of media design, architecture, design, engineering, film, computer game development, science and nature. With the appropriate know-how, self-employment is also an interesting prospect.
Your meaningful certificate provides a detailed insight into the qualifications you have acquired and improves your career prospects.
Didactic concept
Your lecturers are highly qualified both professionally and didactically and will teach you from the first to the last day (no self-study system).
You will learn in effective small groups. The courses usually consist of 6 to 25 participants. The general lessons are supplemented by numerous practical exercises in all course modules. The practice phase is an important part of the course, as it is during this time that you process what you have just learned and gain confidence and routine in its application. The final section of the course involves a project, a case study or a final exam.
Virtual classroom alfaview®
Lessons take place using modern alfaview® video technology - either from the comfort of your own home or at our premises at Bildungszentrum. The entire course can see each other face-to-face via alfaview®, communicate with each other in lip-sync voice quality and work on joint projects. Of course, you can also see and talk to your connected trainers live at any time and you will be taught by your lecturers in real time for the entire duration of the course. The lessons are not e-learning, but real live face-to-face lessons via video technology.
The courses at alfatraining are funded by Agentur für Arbeit and are certified in accordance with the AZAV approval regulation. When submitting a Bildungsgutscheinor Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein, the entire course costs are usually covered by your funding body.
Funding is also possible via Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF), Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) or regional funding programs. As a regular soldier, you have the option of attending further training courses via Berufsförderungsdienst (BFD). Companies can also have their employees qualified via funding from Agentur für Arbeit (Qualifizierungschancengesetz).