This is the closest competitor to Basecamp. It is less "rockstar motivational" than SOM, but their C4D Basecamp equivalent is excellent. You can subscribe for one month ($39), binge the "C4D 101" series, and cancel. That is the cheapest legitimate educational path to the "best" skills.
If "free" is the absolute constraint, the "best" path is not piracy, but the official ecosystem of free alternatives that School of Motion and Maxon provide: school of motion cinema 4d basecamp 2024 free best
| Module | Content | |--------|---------| | 1–2 | Interface, navigation, primitives, hierarchies | | 3–4 | Splines, generators (extrude, lathe, sweep) | | 5–6 | Materials, lights, cameras, Redshift basics | | 7–8 | Keyframe animation, graph editing | | 9–10 | MoGraph (cloners, effectors) | | 11–12 | Rendering & final project | This is the closest competitor to Basecamp