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CINEMA 4D R11 Quickstart – Modeling
6. Quick Tutorial – Modeling
This is the most important part of this tutorial: How is a model built?
CINEMA 4D R11 has numerous tools that make modeling even easier and greatly simplify workflow.
A helpful function for quick navigation is the “General Popup“ which you can activate by pressing “V“ on your
keyboard.
A circular menu lets you choose from several menus in which sub-menus appear when the cursor is placed over
them. Play with the menu a little and find out how it can improve your workflow.
In order to show you the basic functions and the most common way to work with the modeler we will create
an eye for a comic character.
Let’s start with the creation of a cube, which happens to be the most-used primitive for modeling
(Objects / Primitive / Cube). Press the “C“ key on your keyboard. By doing this you have just
converted the parametric object to a polygonal object. Most commands can be executed via socalled
“hot keys“ which, when used heavily, can speed up your work in CINEMA 4D quite a bit.
Switch to the “Use Polygon Tool“ mode (on the command palette on the left) and select the “Live Selection“
tool (upper command palette). Make sure that “Only Select Visible Elements“ is active in the Attribute Manager.
Mark the cube’s top polygon which will become brighter when you place the cursor over it and turn orange
when you have selected it. Click on this polygon with the right mouse button. Choose “Extrude Inner“ from
the menu that appears (hot key “I“). With the left mouse button click on the top orange polygon, hold the left
mouse button pressed and drag the mouse a little to the left. A second square should have been created, as
seen on the next screenshot.
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