MetaCreations Infini D 4 5

Training Provided by The Virtual Training Company Infini-D 4.5 makes 3D animation feel like second nature, featuring the perfect balance of professional animation features, high-end special effects, and broadcast quality output, all within a celebrated, intuitive working environment. Version 4.5 features a dramatically faster renderer, a robust batch rendering queue, powerful new particle effects, and support for MetaCreations' MetaStream. In this 9.5 hour long tutorial, author Matt Neutra begins by covering the tools and menus, then moves smoothly into more complicated aspects of the program such as modeling objects, editing objects and lights, special effects, and animation tricks. With Virtual Training Company, you can even begin learning right away by clicking on the section of your choice.

MetaCreations Infini D 4 5

Introduction

1. About this CD

Getting Started

1. System Requirements
2. Setting Screen Depth
3. Setting Memory & Launching Infini-D
4. Preferences Overview
5. Creating a Scene
6. Setting Up QD3D
7. Placing & Deleting Objects
8. Exiting Infini-D

Tools & Menus

1. Memory Allocation
2. File Menu
3. Edit Menu
4. Model Menu
5. Animation Menu
6. Windows Menu
7. Object Manipulation Tools
8. Camera & Light Tools
9. Object Manipulation Tools
10. Object Linking Tools
11. Scale & Squash Tools
12. View Manipulation Tools
13. Marquee Render Tool
14. Keyboard Shortcuts

Pallets and Views

1. The Command Floater
2. The Information Tab
3. Navigation Tab
4. Animation Tab
5. Object Tab
6. Modifiers Tab
7. Surfaces Tab
8. Display Tab
9. Filters Tab
10. Standard View Windows
11. Camera View Windows
12. Editing Views
13. Sequencer Window
14. Sequencer Shortcuts
15. Navigate in a View
16. How to use Views
17. Selecting with the Sequencer

Modeling Objects

1. Work with Objects in a Scene
2. Primitive Objects
3. Extrude Objects
4. Lathe Objects
5. Freeform Objects
6. Text Object
7. Terrain Objects
8. Particle Objects
9. Importing & Exporting Objects
10. Object Settings Tab
11. Boolean Functions
12. Boolean Case Study
13. Object Hierarchies & Links
14. Object Constraints
15. Copy, Paste & Duplicate
16. Using Origin as a Reference

Editing Objects

1. SplineForm Modeller
2. SplineForm Workshop
3. What Is Path Modelling?
4. SplineForm Modeller Interface
5. Modelling in SplineFrom
6. Importing EPS Files
7. Object Liary
8. SplineForm Model Case Study
9. Mesh Editor Interface
10. What is a Mesh?
11. Working in the Mesh Editor
12. Mesh Point Tools
13. Mesh Deform Tools
14. Mesh Settings
15. Mesh Model Case Study

Surfaces and Textures

1. Applying & Selecting Procedural Surface
2. Editing Surfaces
3. Creating a New Surface
4. Import Textures or QT Movies
5. Composed Surfaces
6. Composed Surface Case Study
7. Surface Liary
8. Surface Case Study

Adding & Editing Lights

1. Light Types
2. Distant Light
3. Point Light
4. Tube Light
5. Spot Light
6. Target Spot Light
7. Ambient Light
8. Sharp and Soft Shadows
9. Volumetric Light
10. Lens Flares
11. Gels & Masks

Composing a Scene

1. Environment Settings
2. The Subject of your Scene
3. Setting the Atmosphere
4. Adding Lighting
5. Cameras and Lenses
6. Working Efficiently
7. Using Book Marks

Special Effects

1. Fog
2. Editing Particle Systems
3. Reflex Filters
4. Morphing
5. Shadow Catchers

Animation

1. What Is Animation?
2. Sequencer
3. Simple Animation Case Study
4. Animation Assistants
5. Velocity Graph
6. Motion Paths
7. QTVR Objects
8. QTVR Panoramas
9. Importing Audio

Deformations

1. Deformations
2. Twist
3. Bend
4. Taper
5. Shear
6. Bulge
7. Linear Wave
8. Circular Waves
9. Offset
10. Rotate
11. Scale

Animation Tricks

1. Duplicating Animated Objects
2. Hidden Parents
3. Animating Surfaces
4. Morphing with the Model Liary
5. Ghosting

Rendering

1. Rendering & Backburner Overview
2. Rendering Overview
3. Render Settings
4. Rendering Views
5. Using Backburner
6. Preview Over Video
7. Time Savin Rendering Trick

Appendix

1. General Preferences
2. Scene Preferences
3. Windows Preferences
4. Manipulation Preferences
5. Tools Preferences
6. Colors Preferences
7. Rendering Preferences
8. What is Anti-Aliasing?
9. What is Field Interlacing?

Case Studies

1. Animating a Boolean
2. Creating Fireworks
3. Animating Lens Flares
4. Simulating a Sparkler
5. Simulating Water
6. Animating a Shark
7. Basic Flying Logo
8. Shadow Catcher Case Study
9. Animating Cameras
10. Bump Map Case Study
11. Two Surface Text

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