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