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Predators and Prey . . . still good, but not as consistently likeable for me as the first four volumes.
I don't like Harmony. I have never found her as funny as the writers apparently do. The reality teevee show thing feels overdone; I just wish they could have found another way to get the anti-Slayer sentiment going. However, the non-Harmony-centric issues were pretty good, especially Safe and titular issue.
Harmony (remember her?) gets her own reality television show. Twilight, the evil organization trying to stop the slayers, creates some seriously creepy vampire cat toys and uses Harmony's show to turn people against slayers and pro-vampire. Buffy and Andrew take on an evil sect of slayers. Giles and Faith are doing their thing, trying to help slayer outcasts. Dawn is now a doll and in the hands of some creepy guy. Volume 5 is like the middle of a season where there might be an episode here and there related to the big bad, but most of them are off the wall crazy things caused by other folks.
First of all, let's talk about Harmony. I never liked her, which I suppose is how you are supposed to feel. However, I would have been totally happy with her not coming back at all, as I am mostly just annoyed by her. If she had to come back, though, this was a good way to do it. She definitely is reality show material. I'm guessing Harmony Bites would air on MTV. No, I would not watch it.
These Twilight plot lines were pretty great, much better than the previous, to me anyway. The evil toys were just funny, in the same way that the giant Stay Puft marshmallow man at the end of Ghostbusters is. The other prong of their attack, making slayers into the bad guys in the eyes of the public, was pretty nifty as well. It definitely plays nicely off of the vampire craze, suggesting that humans are dumb enough to want to become vamps even in the Buffy-verse with the nasty forehead wrinkles and the gruesome shots of Harmony eating folks on television. Yeah, humanity!
The slayers that are out for their own profit and kicked folks off an island so they can live there do not interest me much. What saved this section was definitely Andrew. His speeches about nerdy things, while boring to Buffy and most everyone else in the comic, are almost all delightful to me. Plus, he did the classic Andrew thing where he tries to be helpful, but does so using his talent with demons, which...yeah, oops.
Giles and Faith's section was pretty boring. They didn't really accomplish anything and they don't quite seem to have a dynamic down. I am all for odd pairings, like when Buffy and Andrew went on a car drive and bonded over Daniel Craig as Bond, but Giles and Faith just are not working out.
Dawn's new incarnation is not nearly as awesome as her previous ones. A doll is just not as funny or intense as a giant or a centaur. She also does some more of the "I don't get enough attention from my sister, so I act out" stuff, which I can't stand. This ends (somewhat of a spoiler here) with her turned back to a human. Everyone knew it had to happen eventually. I'm not really sure how to feel about this, since her crazy forms were some of the best parts of this series for me. However, I am sure she can still get into ridiculous antics (and from some of the spoilers my dear friends have mentioned, she will) as a human.
Good volume overall. A couple of the sections dragged, but there were some hilarious moments and most of the plot lines were solid.
This volume was pretty uneven. I don't really enjoy Harmony and her reality tv show. I did enjoy the Buffy/Andrew and Giles/Faith issues. There wasn't really an overarching theme to this volume. I wish it felt like the Slayer organization had more of a plan instead of just reacting to the big baddies related to Twilight as they pop-up
This volume is made up of several singular issues, instead of a continued storyline like the last few volumes. The main theme is the paradigm shift caused by the popularity of Harmony's reality show and the adulation of vampires, making Buffy and her crew the "bad guys." Compounding matters are a couple of rogue slayer groups acting as though they are above the law and built to rule the world. It's saddening, and even I found the stuffed vampire cats a little adorable. I've never really liked Harmony, just as I despise the Kardashians, but it's entirely believable that the nation would go crazy over her.
The art and writing are done by several different folks in this volume and I continue to like Jeanty's art the best. His characters are the most recognizable and realistic-looking. Harmony doesn't look a lot different from Buffy in a lot of the panels which can be confusing. I also welcomed the return of the Faith and Giles subplot. Oh, and Dawn's adventure with the thricewise, Kenny, is resolved.
Overall, a decent issue, but not the best.
Volume 5 of BtVS Season Eight continues to be a little too weird, but it was rescued by the excellent final story by Doug Petrie.
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I just finished reading the website which set out information on the reasons we need to vote yes for consolidation.
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I overheard one person ask another, "what do you think about consolidation?" The other person answered "it probably would just create a bigger pot for crooked politicians to steal out of." If this is the way some people think, it doesn't seem that the issue has been very well defined, at least in some people minds.
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Read my review of the audiobook version of this 1998 Newbery Medalist, free verse historical fiction set in Oklahoma during the Great Depression, at http://newberryproject.blogspot.com/2007/08/out-of-dust-1998.html.
This book would be good to use when talking about the Great Depression. I think students would like to look at the day to day life of someone their age going through this disaster.
I remembered reading this book when I was much younger in elementary school and, after reading it as an adult, I can't believe how my teachers were allowed to let children that hadn't even reached puberty yet read this novel; it covers a lot of pretty heavy stuff, like the loss of a parent and the subsequent depression. Perhaps it was the free-verse-poetry form Hesse uses to tell the story that allowed this book to sneak under parental radar; what novel written in poetry form could cover anything so important?
Hesse's novel Out of the Dust reveals what life was like living in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression through the story of 14-year-old Billy Joe Kelby. Her use of free-verse poetry makes the book an easy read full of beautiful and poignant descriptions that bring to life the everyday occurrences of the people struggling against the elements. I can tell if something has struck a chord with me when I have to close the book and savor the words for a while before moving on; Hesse does just that. Throughout it all, though, is this underlying hope that things will get better - that the rain will come, that Billy Joe's hands will play piano again, or that her dad will come out of his slump and acknowledge his own daughter. Her use of poetry cuts straight to the heart of the matter, bypassing all the verbosity authors can sometimes fall into with prose. I feel like this would be a great book to use in an ELA classroom that coincides with what students might be learning in their history or social studies classes. Also, this book could possibly be used as a transitional piece from a unit on prose to a unit on poetry.
Out of the Dust discusses the struggles of Billie Jo during the dust bowl through free verse poetry. Through her story, students are able to really understand the heartache and power the dust bowl had on not only Billie Jo, but also her close friends and family. The book is written as a journal which makes it feel very close and intimate and students often feel like they are reliving parts of Billie Jo's life. This book is great because it introduces so many important topics such as the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression, unemployment, loss and grieving, as well as the power of hope and perseverance. This book, like Hitler Youth, is also told through a youth's perspective which makes it much more engaging and easier to relate to for students. This book is great because it also shows the power poetry has and how it can convey emotions. Since each chapter is its own free verse poem, it also makes it an easier and quicker read for students.
sobering understanding of the "Dusty Thirties" especially 1934-1936. An afternoon well-spent if you can make time to read this incredible book.
Could you imagine being in the great depression and being in dust! I read "Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse. The narrator is Billie Jo Kelby. Her name sounds like a boy name because Billie Jo's dad wanted a boy. This book is historical fiction written in poetry. The protagonist (Billie Jo) learns that she's never going to get "Out of the Dust."
This story takes place in Oklahoma from January 1934 to December 1935. The protagonist is Billie Jo and Billie Jo is a "long-legged girl with a wide mouth and cheekbones like bicycle handles. She has red hair and freckles. She loves to play piano."The secondary characters are Ma, Pa, Arley, and Maddog. The quote that she was long-legged was important because it describes Billie Jo. The page number was page 3 if you want to look at the quote when you get the book.
In "Out of the Dust" the main conflict is Billie Jo's ma died. Billie Jo accidently killed her ma by throwing a pail of kerosene on her that pa put next to the stove. After this event Pa and Billie Jo feel self-pity. The characters who are involved in this main conflict is Billie Jo, Pa, Ma. The quote to support the conflict is, "Daddy put a pail of kerosene next to the stove. Ma was fixing breakfast thinking the pail was full of water and she lifted it to makes daddy's coffee and poured it, but instead of making coffee ma made a rope of fire." This quote shows that the fire starts from the pail of kerosene. This quote was on page 60.
The resolution was that later in the book pa married this girl named Louise. This solved the problem because Billie Jo doesn't need to feel lonely anymore. The protagonist (Billie Jo) learns that no matter what, she will always have family by her side. The reader learned that living in the 1930's in Oklahoma is hard.
This book was really boring because it goes all over the place in the book. For example, it went from "A tent of pain" to "Drinking."One connection from this book "Out of the Dust" is dust connects to "Esperanza rising." It connects because dust storms are in each book. I think this book was humorous. For example they had a rabbit war, they shot rabbits. I think the weakness is that there is not enough action. For example the only action was when ma got burned. I didn't like that it was written in poetry form either. Overall I think this book is humorous and not enough action so I would rate this book a 3/5 stars.
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Could you imagine being in the great depression when the dust bowls were going on? When you are only 14 and having your mom and baby brother die. The main character of "Out of the Dust" a historical fiction poetry story written by Karen Hesse is Billie Jo. The narrator of this story Billie Jo because it is written in first person. In this story Billie Jo (the protagonist) learns to live with the changes in her life.
"Out of the dust" takes place in 1934-1935 in Oklahoma. The protagonist is Billie Jo she is very good at piano and she is "long legged and wide mouthed". She is also very happy at times but then again depressed at times. She is also very smart. Some of the other characters are Ma, Pa, Arley and Maddog. The quote in the story that proves she is smart is that "she scored top in the eighth grade on state tests. I found this on page 30
In "Out of the Dust" Billie Jo faces the problem of Ma dying. Billie Jo accidently killed her Ma by throwing a pail of kerosene on her that Pa put next to the stove. The characters that were involved in the problem were Ma, Pa and Billie Jo. It said in the story " Daddy put a pail of kerosene to the stove and Ma fixing breakfast thinking it was filled with water, lifted it, to make Daddy's coffee but instead she made a rope of fire". This quote was on page 60.
Although the problem was solved! It was solved by another girl named Louise coming into Pa's and Billie Jo's life. This solved the problem because Louise took Ma's spot in the family. For example she started to cook and clean for them. The protagonist (Billie Jo) she will always have family by her side. The reader can learn that living in Oklahoma in the 1930's can be hard.
This book was boring almost all the time in my opinion because it didn't really have any action or exciting moments. It did have one suspenseful moment When Ma died but that was it. I made a connection to the book "Number the Star's" when I read this because they both won Newberry awards medals, they both are written in first person by two 14 year old girls. They both took place during the 1930's. The strengths of this book is that it creates a picture in your mind while you're reading. For example when the fire happened you could picture it. The weaknesses are that it didn't have enough excitement and the format was not good. It was just boring overall. I would give this book a 2/5 stars.
Has something bad happened to you like your getting covered in dust, you killed your own mom and the baby she was having? How about burning your own hands and your talent is gone? One more thing all of this happened and you and your dad feel like strangers? Probably not. Well a 14 year old girl named Billie-Jo did all of this. Billie-Jo is from the book "Out Of The Dust" by Karen Hesse. The main character is Billie-Jo and the protagonist is also Billie-Jo.
Billie-Jo lives in the 1930s in the great depression or (dust bowl). No one wanted to be there at that time. Everybody during that time was sad ad really depressed. In the story the protagonist is the main character in this case its Billie-Jo. She is the protagonist because she's good she try her best at things even though there were a few accidents. Another character is Billie-Jos ma and dad but ma doesn't last very long. Billie-Jos dad tries his best, but didn't really bother with her till the end again. Something that Billie-Jo always says is that "dads digging his own grave not a pond. That's important because it seems dad can't take the pressure that ma is gone.
The main problem in this story is that ma dies and its dad and Billie-Jos fault. When Billie-Jo says dads digging his own grave not a pond, he's doing that because to much stuff is going on it was easier with ma. That's a big problem because that turns into little problems like Billie-Jo runs away.
The solution to that is when Billie-Jo runs away and she learns where she had to be and where she belongs and where she belongs is home with her dad. So Billie-Jo called her dad and went back home. That's also what Billie-Jo learned. What I learned from the book is that people belong with their family even if it's a terrible time. People belong where they were bon where the people that love them are.
My personal opinion about this book is PICK IT UP AND READ IT! It's a great book its depressing but amazing. I give this book a 4/5. Another book I can connect it to is Esperanza Rising. I say that bok because some events happen like in both books there are dust storms and a lot of people are are depressed. What I liked was that there's a really high climate and what I don't like is that its kinda predictable so I give "out of the dust" a 4/5.
Have you ever thrown a pail of flaming kerosene on your mother? Had your hands fried off? Or even ran away? In "Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse, Billie Jo does all these things. Billie Jo learns that she can't run away from her problems.
"Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse starts in the August of 1920, Billie Jo's birthday, but then jumps to the winter of 1934 in Oklahoma when Billie Jo is almost 14. Billie Jo's father helps her realize the problem. In the book, Billie Jo says to her father "I can't be my own mother and I can't be my own father and if you both leave me what am I supposed to do?" This Quote by Karen Hesse on page #205 shows how Billie Jo realized the problem.
The main problem in Out of the Dust is that Billie Jo's mother dies and Billie Jo runs away, Out of the dust. The Quote "Getting away wasn't any better, just different" by Karen Hesse on page #204 shows that when Billie Jo runs away, she realizes she should go back home.
After Billie Jo runs away, she realizes she can't run away from her problems. At the end, Billie Jo meets "The Other woman" (Pa's new girlfriend) and begins to like her. The reader can take away that like Billie Jo, you can't run away from you problems.
In this book, some parts about just the dust are boring. And some parts are exciting. The exciting parts are suspenseful and you might even say action packed. This book is similar to Esperanza rising because it is in the same time and some similar events. In conclusion, I would rate this book 4/5 stars.
Claire Rosser (KLIATT Review, March 1999 (Vol. 33, No. 2))
This novel has won just about all the possible prizes, including the Newbery Medal, so most of you must already know about it. This trade paperback edition is sturdy, with a picture of Billie Jo in a straw hat on the cover. It should hold up well for classroom use, which is a certainty. The story of tragedy, despair, and finally hope is told in poetry form, with Billie Jo as the youthful narrator, her story unfolding in chapters. The story begins as Billie Jo is 14 years old, with her parents barely eking out an existence in dust-choked Oklahoma in the 1930s. Her mother is pregnant, her father works stubbornly on their failing farm, and Billie Jo gets some joy out of playing the piano and earning some money. This life seems grim, but it gets even grimmer when an accident scars Billie Jo's hands and causes her mother's death. How she recovers from the pain and the guilt, and how she and her father remain on the farm, with the dust ever thicker, smothering them, is the struggle of the story. Students will be fascinated that Hesse tells this gripping, emotional story through poetry; and the form will inspire them and their teachers to explore poetry in their own storytelling. KLIATT Codes: J*--Exceptional book, recommended for junior high school students. 1997, Scholastic Apple/Signature, 227p. 20cm, $4.99. Ages 13 to 15.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0590371258, Paperback)Like the Oklahoma dust bowl from which she came, 14-year-old narrator Billie Jo writes in sparse, free-floating verse. In this compelling, immediate journal, Billie Jo reveals the grim domestic realities of living during the years of constant dust storms: That hopes--like the crops--blow away in the night like skittering tumbleweeds. That trucks, tractors, even Billie Jo's beloved piano, can suddenly be buried beneath drifts of dust. Perhaps swallowing all that grit is what gives Billie Jo--our strong, endearing, rough-cut heroine--the stoic courage to face the death of her mother after a hideous accident that also leaves her piano-playing hands in pain and permanently scarred.
Meanwhile, Billie Jo's silent, windblown father is literally decaying with grief and skin cancer before her very eyes. When she decides to flee the lingering ghosts and dust of her homestead and jump a train west, she discovers a simple but profound truth about herself and her plight. There are no tight, sentimental endings here--just a steady ember of hope that brightens Karen Hesse's exquisitely written and mournful tale. Hesse won the 1998 Newbery Award for this elegantly crafted, gut-wrenching novel, and her fans won't want to miss The Music of Dolphins or Letters from Rifka. (Ages 9 and older) --Gail Hudson
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The 20p i newspaper, in line with other national newspapers, is thought to have enjoyed a strong summer, benefiting from its coverage of the Olympics.
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Delve into the world of motion graphics, keying, and compositing in After Effects CC. In this course, Ian Robinson lays out six foundations for becoming proficient with After Effects, including concepts such as layers, keyframe animation, and working with 3D. To help you get up and running with the program, the course begins with a project-based chapter on creating an animated graphic bumper. Next, explore the role layers play in compositions and find out how to add style to your projects using effects and graphic elements. Last, see how to build 3D objects with CINEMA 4D Lite, as well as stabilize footage, solve for 3D cameras, and paint in graphics with the Reverse Stabilization feature.
In order to get the highest quality 3D graphics out of your cinema 4D layers in After Effects, you'll want to utilize the multipass work flow. And if you're unfamiliar with the term multipass, let me go ahead and create some multipass layers so we can talk about how those layers function to give us an added level of control over the appearance of our 3D objects. Let's select layer 1. And then with layer 1 selected let's go to our effects control panel. In there we have our CINEWARE options and if you scroll down towards the bottom. We have multi-pass linear workflow.
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Having the ability to access each one of these individual layers gives me the ability to apply just slight tweaks and changes. For example, if we go to the specular layer I could go ahead and solo that layer so you can see exactly how it's affecting the image. So let's turn the specular layer solo button off and press T to open its opacity. And let's just click and drag to change how it blends into our 3D model. And notice as I drag it down to around 40%, now our model is significantly less bright.
If we crank that up to 100%, now it's kind of popping off the screen. If I wanted to have even more control, I could just select this layer and press command D to duplicate. And then I'd have an even brighter scene. You get the idea. Once you have a multi-pass layer created, you have the utmost control over the individual aspects that make up that model. Now most of the time when I'm working, I don't want to automatically create all of these different layers. I just want to be able to specify The individual layers that I'd like to be able to work with. So to do that, we actually need to go over into Cinema. But when we're in Cinema we're also going to look at some of the other render options to make sure that we're going to have the highest quality models, coming out of our Cinema 4D projects.
So before we jump over to Cinema, I'm going to collapse layer 11, and, click on layer 12 and shift click on layer one to select them all and we'll just delete all these extra layers. Let's make sure to turn Visibility of our multipass c4d layer back on. Now let's select Layer1 and press Cmd+E on the Mac or Ctrl+E on Windows to edit the original file. Once you're in cinema, go to the button that has the clapboard with the cog on it. That's our Render Settings button. We'll go ahead and open our Render Settings and I want you to jump down to anti-aliasing.
With anti-aliasing selected, let's change the aliasing from geometry to best. This'll ensure that the model renders at beautifully high quality. Now the filter option allows me to render for still images and animation. So let's click on that and choose Gauss animation. Now that we have our antialiasing settings set up, let's go ahead and click on multipass. Notice in the multipass section, we don't have anything loaded yet. So let's go down here to the multipass button. If you click on the button, you can see all these different multipass layers, like we just created in After Effects.
Now I just want to access a few of these areas. Let's start by adding a material colour pass and then we can click on multipass again. And this time we'll choose specular. And then we'll add one more thing. Click on multipass and this time choose object buffer. Now, the object buffer is specified as buffer number one. Now, we haven't added an object buffer yet, but we'll do that after we close our Render Settings. Now we want to make sure to enable multi-pass, so go ahead and check that box. Now we've specified the individual passes that we'd like to render out of our Cinema project.
Let's go ahead and close our Render Settings. Now we need to specify that object buffer. So go over to your H plus logo and select it. If you go to the tag section you can go to Cinema 4D tags. Then under here we have a compositing tag. If we select that, there's a channel called object buffer. When we're in the object buffer channel, go ahead and click enable. The buffer is set to number one. It's important that this buffer match the object buffer number that we set up in our Render Settings.
Now we're actually ready to save this so we can go back into our cinema project. So I'm going to go up into the file menu, and choose Save. Now I'm going to jump into After Effects. Make sure to wait for a second, and then After Effects should reload with all the new changes. Go ahead and select layer 1. With layer 1 selected, now you'll notice Defined Multi-Passes is able to be selected. Let's go ahead and select that. Now, when we click Add Image Layers, it's only going to add the three different channels that we specified.
Now notice it automatically turned off my main background layer, so let's just turn that back on. Now things still don't look quite right. Any time you realize you're in this situation, that's when you utilize the Solo button. So, let's select our Object Buffer layer and go ahead and click the Solo button. Here you can see I've got a luminescence render of my object, that's how the Object Buffer works. It gives you the alpha channel of whatever your 3D graphic is. We'll use this in a second. For now, we want to drag it to the top of the layer hierarchy and just disable it. So let's turn off solo and turn off the visibility for our multi pass object buffer.
Now we have our specular layer that's on top and I know that's fine. And then our next layer is this material color. I have a feeling when we turn this off everything is going to look okay. And shown off it is. The material color pass is designed for us to actually change the color of our graphic and in order for it to function properly we've to change the blend mode. So first lets turn on the visibility for layer 3 and then go up under the effect options. In here I want you to go to color correction and then we can choose color balance hue levels saturation. Now that we've applied this effect, it's giving me a warning, just letting me know that, hey, this isn't a 32-bit effect.
But honestly, that's okay. The way that we're going to blend this, it'll work. Now, if we go to our Modes panel, let's change the Blend mode from Normal to Color. Now once we've changed it to color, notice our logo has popped back into the scene. But let's change the color. I'm going to click and drag on the hue value, and it's going to crank around the hue. But since I don't have any saturation in my original render, I'm going to go ahead and just increase the saturation, cause it's there. It's just very subtle. So now we've made our logo kind of red.
I'm going to keep clicking and dragging around 'til I get something that's a little more purple. There we go. We'll set it for a value of 92. Now, since I have this material color layer as its own individual layer. I can press T to adjust the opacity. Let's click and drag the opacity down just the blend the purple in a little more subtly. Now just like in our earlier example, we could duplicate the specular channel or adjust its opacity. For now, I actually think this looks perfect.
Let's look at the alpha channel for our graphic, though. If we click on the channel pull down, we can switch it to alpha. And notice We don't have any transparency in the background. Well, that's why I rendered the object buffer. So let's turn our RGB channels back on and enable the object buffer. Now when you see it, it's just going to blow everything out. But if we change the blend mode, we can switch it from normal To stencil luma. What this will do is create a stencil based on the luminance value.
So we can go ahead and enable that, and sure enough, we've got our logo back in the scene, and yes. if we go ahead and check out our alpha, we have our full alpha channel. So, I'll just enable our GB again, and as you can see, when you have multipass rendering enabled inside of Cinema, you can really step up the quality of your renders.
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Intimidated by 3D modeling packages? Dip a toe in the water with CINEMA 4D (C4D) Lite, a slimmed down version of CINEMA 4D included with After Effects CC. Motion graphics designer Angie Taylor shows you how to build a complete sequence in C4D Lite, progressing from initial object modeling, to animation, lighting, camera rigging, texturing, and final render. Plus, learn to animate text, create random movement with wiggle expressions, track cameras in live-action footage to add new 3D elements, and light your scene. Angie also round-trips the project files to After Effects for visual effects and color correction. With over 100 videos, this course allows you to explore almost every aspect of 3D motion graphics creation, within this accessible introductory tool.
As we've seen, Cinema 4D Lite is incredibly full featured for a free application, but there are a few things it can't do, and this movie is to highlight those. I've opened Cineware_Comparison_Chart.PDF from the project files folder, Chapter One. And here we have a document that was made by Maxon and highlights the differences between the different versions of Cinema 4D, those being, Prime, Visualize, Broadcast, Studio, and Lite. Lite is most similar to Prime but there are some things that are missing in Cinema 4D Lite that aren't in Prime.
The Python C++ API, for one thing. But most things are supported, it's cross platform 64 bit architecture, open GL support and Coffee is also supported. Now, if we go down to Interface and Workflow, much of it is the same between the applications. Couple of things to note, XRef external instancing and referencing system isn't supported in Cinema 4D Lite. And sadly, 3DConnexion 3DMouse support isn't in Cinema 4D Lite.
And I really miss my 3D mouse when I'm working in the Lite version. Other things, no study or display in the Viewport and Doodle Viewport annotation tool is also missing. When we get to Cameras, most of it supports it except for Motion Camera, Morph Camera, and the Camera Calibrator. And then, if we go down to product comparisons for Data Exchange and Format Support, you'll see that much of it is the same except for when it comes to exchange files. After Effects, Nuke, Motion, Final Cut Pro, Digital Fusion, and Shake, external data support isn't supported.
Couple of other options here are missing including BodyPaint 3D Exchange. However, you'll notice that all the important things are supported via Cineware. So although you can't export and save with 3D data using the old AEC file format, you can do all the multi-pass compositing via Cineware anyway. So that really gets around the problem. In terms of modeling, pretty much everything is there, except for the Polygonal modeling tools with N-gon support.
Also, the modeling generators, for example Metaball, Boolean, Symmetry, et cetera, when it comes to modeling tools, nearly everything is supported with the exception of Polygonal modeling tools with N-gon support as you can see there. And there are also a couple of things to note about the modeling generators. Some are import only and it lists the ones that are affected down here at the bottom. So, when it comes to deformers, we're pretty much all supported.
You'll notice that they are import only, these ones, Bend, Twist, Bulge, Shear, Taper, etcetera. Displacement Collision Camera, Smoothing, Spline, Wrap and Shrinkwrap deformers are not included. But pretty much the modeling is pretty much there. Except for, of course, Sculpting. There's no Sculpting features in Cinema 4D Lite. In terms of materials and texturing, pretty much everything is supported. There's a couple of things at the end again, Sub-polygon displacement, Sub-surface Scattering and some of the more advanced features of material options are not available, but pretty much everything that the average user would need is there. There's no UV editing in Lite at all.
In terms of lighting, pretty much everything is supported, with the exception of IES Light Data. No support for that. Down at the bottom there. In terms of Rendering, you're limited to a resolution of 800 by 600, but of course that can be rendered in a bigger comp in After Effects, which we'll find out about later. You'll see the object buffers and multipass output are only supported during the Cineware output using the AE Cinema 4D layer.
But they are supported. Global Illumination is not supported. And the Physical Renderer with Physical Camera is not supported. No Stereo Rendering either. The Depth of Field and Vector Motion Blur post effects are done through passes so they can be supported. There's no Cineman, Renderman compliant bridge, no Sketch and Toon, no Pyrocluster and no Physical Sky but everything else is there. Okay, where are we now? Picture Viewer is all supported, Watermark, Render Queue Batch Rendering and Network Rendering Clients not supported.
In terms of animation, pretty fully featured. No Cappucino is the one exception, and no Keyframe Reduction, Keyframe Baking. Or any of those assistants that will help you with the keyframing, they tend to be missing. And no ASCII animation support. So, but pretty much everything else is supported. There are a couple of little asterisks on there. Which you'll see there's no Python Node included in Expresso, but Expresso's fully supported apart from that. And if we go back up to here, you'll notice the timeline.
You can have up to four timeline windows with customizable track display and dot sheet of Curve View modes. But, you're only allowed that on one timeline window only. Okay, a few things missing down here. If we go back up a Dynamic is missing completely. There's no Dynamic tools in Cinema 4D Lite. And in terms of MoGraph, there aren't any MoGraph tools, but if you register, you will get the Fracture object, and some Effectors free.
So they only become activated when you register the full version and we'll cover that in one of the tutorials. In terms of character animation tools, I'm afraid, they are missing too, but you can still animate your characters. You just have to do it by hand instead of using some of the great character animation tools that are in Studio and Broadcast. The Hair Simulation and Rendering system is missing too. And then, in terms of content, there are presets included but none of the advanced presets and demo scenes are included that you get with Studio as you would expect.
And no Broadcast Library, no Visualization Library, but you have all the presets that you probably need to get started. You have Materials, Camera setups, Lighting setups. So pretty much everything you need, but that just highlights some of of the things that are missing from Cinema 4D Lite. If you want to download your own copy of this document or send a download link to someone, it is available on the Maxon website, but there's a copy in the Chapter One Folder for you to look at.
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