Lynda - Mograph Techniques - Animating with C4D Effectors

Harness the power of the CINEMA 4D MoGraph module to create complex animations with only a couple of keyframes. By stacking multiple MoGraph effectors, you can achieve nice-looking animations quickly and easily, saving you time spent keyframing moves manually. Discover how to change your text on the fly or create iterations of it, while keeping the animation intact. Author EJ Hassenfratz introduces a real-world postproduction workflow, by creating a network bumper promo. This project covers creating 3D text in CINEMA 4D, compositing, and adding final polish to the footage inside of Adobe After Effects.

Topics include:

Creating a cube grid with the MoGraph Cloner

Creating first-, second-, and third-wave animations

Using a null object to group and keyframe multiple effectors

Limiting the influence of an effector

Adding texture

Using an HDRI map for reflections

Lighting the scene

Importing a CINEMA 4D project into After Effects

Isolating and changing text color with object buffers

author EJ Hassenfratz

subject Video, Motion Graphics?software After Effects CS5.5, CS6, CINEMA 4D R13, R14

level Intermediate

duration 1h 39m

released Feb 27, 2013