How to Create a CG Short Film by Yourself

Do you want to tell your own story in the way of film? Wanna make a CG short film by yourself?

You may be asking ”Can I do a short CG film on my own?”

Well, of course you can.

For those who have creative experience, they know the creative process.

If, however, you are new to CG, or you don’t know how to start making your own short film. Then this article will show you how to create a CG short film through a case study.

First let’s take a look at Accel’s work.

As you can see, this is a CG short film created through C4D.

With the inorganic quality of the girl’s voice, slowly reveals a messy desk. Pistol, scalpel randomly placed on it. Wait a minute, you look closely again, a pool of blood appeared in the lower left corner. Obviously, it is not an unusual scene, and you may still be thinking, what is happening here? Could it be the scene of a crime?

As you can see, this is a CG short film created through C4D.

The inorganic quality of the girl’s voice, slowly reveals a messy desk. Pistol, scalpel randomly placed on it. Wait a minute, you look closely again, a pool of blood appeared in the lower-left corner. It is not an unusual scene, and you may still be thinking, what is happening here? Could it be the scene of a crime?

Immediately after a bunch of bullets flashed, the picture slowly pulled away. It turned out to be an operating room. All this seems to tell what crime has happened …..

After watching this short film, are you immersed in it? It uses fragmented clips to show a story, and the short 50 seconds contain too many elements.

Well, let’s talk about the process of making a CG short film next.

1. Determination of the theme

This is a must. To make a CG short film, you must first determine the subject content. Your video is about family life class, used to record the life of a little bit? Or is it a thriller and suspense like the video above? Make sure you have a deep understanding of this before you start production.

2. Inspiration, collection of assets

When you have determined the theme of your CG short film, you should start to organize the material and arrange each prop in an organized manner. If you are not very clear about this, you can look for some inspiration and reference materials. Of course, if you are already prepared, you can move on to the next step.

3. C4D practice

You need to know how to use C4D so that you can produce your work faster and better. This stage is the focus, the picture in your mind is needed to implement in front of your own eyes, you need to spend time to practice by yourself. If you are not very familiar with C4D, you may need to find tutorials to learn it carefully. Only when you are skilled with the tools for making CG clips, you will not have too many problems with whatever theme you want to make in the future.

4. Post compositing

After you have roughly completed the CG short film, you need to add the atmosphere, light effects, overall color mixing in the post, so that the style of the picture, the atmosphere more prominent theme. This step will make your work more attractive.

With the popularity of C4D and other user-friendly 3D software, renderer operations are becoming more and more convenient, and more advanced processes are being used by everyone. As long as one is willing to take the time to understand and learn, everyone can make their own CG short film. When you can make one first, the subsequent process of self-learning will become more clear. It is a slow process of exploration to make your work better in a continuous effort to learn.

This is a good tutorial. It will take you to step by step from scratch to complete your CG short film. From the initial inspiration collection stage to the practice of 3D software, the interplay between various software to achieve the effect you want, the atmosphere added in the post, and finally complete your short film. The tutorial covers a wealth of knowledge and shares many tips to improve efficiency. For future self-learning to provide direction.

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