Cinema 4D Beginner's Guide Paperback – November 21, 2012

The tutorials provide instruction but doesn't prepare you adequately with applicable instruction. You know what keys to press and values to input but you don't know why.

Worth the kindle price, but not the softcover price. Some good tips and guidance. Sometimes the text isconfusing, but nonetheless useful.

This is a good book for beginners. I worked in C4D vs 9.1 and haven't used it for several years so I was familiar with it but not enough to consider myself an intermediate user. One thing I noticed is errata, especially on coordinates. The numbers may be incorrect (ie: X axis reads 300 when it should be -300) and a graphic of the toolbar was printed upside down. If anything it's a good way of learning when you have to figure out why an exercise is not working, if it doesn't work for you, check the coordinates, they may be incorrect. On a more positive note, Packt does encourage users to notify them of a typo in the book on their website and if you are having a problem go there and someone may have figured it out and listed it. They were appreciative of the errors I found.

UPDATE: Don't waste your money on this book. As you go further into the book, there are more and more mistakes. I quit using it because there were so many and nothing the book teaches you to create turns out like what the book says. It just gets confusing. I am getting rid of mine.-----------This book is pretty good for beginners -- if you can figure out the correct numbers for the exercises. The authors did not proofread this book before publishing. There aren't any grammar or spelling errors, just incorrect information on the exercises. Sometimes there is an extra step that shouldn't be included because this extra step highly distorts the exercise. If you skip the step, then you achieve the desire results that the book wants you to achieve.The book will tell you to enter 25cm in the field for position, but to get the object you are working with to look like the book example, you need to enter -25cm.There are a whole bunch of mistakes like this and you spend more time trying to figure out what the correct entry should be than you do actually learning from the book. Once you figure out the correct entries, the book is alright, and you just do the exercise 2 or 3 times, and you have it down.also, sometimes the book will have illustrations that don't help. ex: the book will tell you about dots that change red or green when you click on them, and it gives you an illustration showing this, but the illustration is in black and white and not color, so the illustration is pointless.

In the very beginning The author has you do an excercise by creating a desk and walls for a room scene which seems simple enough uh not so! I've followed her instructions exactly and I'm now on my second day trying to simply perform what should be an easy task with 0 success. I tried making contact via the internet with the address given at the beginning of this book but it goes nowhere. Here is what they give you as a contact add: [email protected] tell me where that gets you. I'm finding out that learning animation on any particular software is very challenging by just using one resource and I say this after trying to learn blender by the same method........forget it.when you get stumped and you will there is noyone there to show you what you are doing wrong so your pretty much in the dark. If you really want to learn animation take an online course or go to school where atleast you have an instructor to offer more help because this kind of thing aint easy to learn with just a beginners guide. If you want to build a chicken coop get a book, if you want to learn to bake a cheesecake get a book but if you want to learn this kind of thing reach for every kind learning aid and resource you can and stay with it.

I enjoy this book , which is one of the few books on this subject ! This is excellent for new and experienced users

This book lacks detailed instruction and examples for a Beginner to start learning Cinema 4D. I expected that since it doesn't include a disc with finished samples nor does it have colored photo pages so that you can at least see what the end results should be. I cannot recommend this book to a beginner. It's much better for a novice who has more experience with Cinema 4D. I'll finish this book, and find another one to help me with Cinema 4D. On a positive note, you will learn the basics of everything; but you could probably do better with video tutorials from Maxon or other online sources.

Good Solid instruction.

really simple to use and gives allot of information about 4d that i wasn't able to find elsewhere would definitely recommend if your trying to start using this software

This gives no more information than online help and the illustrations are vblack and very difficult to discern on the poor quality paper. There are much better primers available.

Content is good, but the image quality is very poor. Black and white print screen images are just about impossible to get clear.

貴重なC4Dの本ということでリファレンス代わりになるよう期待して買ったんですが微妙・・・いくつかの操作の積み重ねで作業していくのですが、基礎的すぎるし目標のものをつくるためだけに必要な作業しか書いてないです。これならmaxon japanや他の方のyoutubeのチュートリアルを見ていたほうがマシです。本に頼らずネットの情報を頼りましょう。