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Cinema 4D Insider

Cinema 4D Insider is a professional-level course that transforms how you work in Cinema 4D—covering faster workflows, scene organization, Redshift mastery, and team-ready production techniques.

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4+ hours
Master Cinema 4D workflows in this 4 hour course.
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Intermediate
This is an intermediate course, ideal for those who have been doing motion design for at least 2 years.

Course Overview

If you're not optimizing your Cinema 4D workflow, you're leaving hours on the table every single week. Cinema 4D Insider hands you the production-tested techniques to build a faster workspace, tame complex scenes, unlock Redshift's full potential, and develop workflows that make you the fastest person in any pipeline. You'll wonder how you ever worked without these techniques.

You Get:

4+ hours of Cinema 4D training

Supplemental PDF Guides

24/7 Community Access

Downloadable Templates & Presets

Course syllabus.

Speed Demon Setup
Build a customized Cinema 4D workspace optimized for speed and efficiency. Master professional viewport navigation, custom layouts, interface shortcuts, and personalized presets that streamline your daily workflow and accelerate production.
Organize Like Pro
Object Manager ninja workflows, clean naming, reusable asset libraries, plus speed-boosting viewport presets, smart layer control, and heavy-scene survival tactics to keep Cinema 4D fast and responsive.
Animate With Gusto
Level up your C4D animation workflow with timeline shortcuts, smarter keyframing, ripple and region retiming, markers, bookmarks and preview ranges.
The Secret Sauce
Learn animation secrets like time tracks, procedural animation tools, and non-destructive animation layers—plus preview checks to keep shots clean and on time.
Redshift info High Gear
Master Redshift material workflows in C4D: organize libraries, troubleshoot textures, work fast in the Node Editor, swap materials across scenes with Material Exchanger, build variations with User Data and Jitter, and optimize settings.
Take One for the Team
Master C4D Takes for client revisions: build variations, version and token-name renders, batch output, and package projects for clean handoffs with reliable texture paths.

Meet your instructor.

EJ Hassenfratz
Creative Director & Cinema 4D Trainer

EJ Hassenfratz is a multi-Emmy award winning Motion Design artist & tutorial artist based out of the Mile High city of Denver, CO. EJ comes from a family of designers. Both his father and uncle were Art Directors for broadcast news stations, where EJ cut his teeth in the industry. Inspired by his wife who teaches special-needs children, he started Eyedesyn, a motion design blog to give back to the community that helped him be successful in the field of Motion Design. He’s been fortunate to work with clients like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Coca-Cola, Nike, ESPN, and the NHL’s Washington Capitals.

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