Mograph and Mospline celebrate Labor Day … being lazy with a formula effector
It’s so easy to create monster shapes that have life and detail -
Mograph, Mospline with a sampling of effectors. You can only get lost playing with all the possibilities. And I think you’re supposed to play on Labor Day, right ? Some of the interconnections in Cinema are a bit daunting at first and I’m only beginning to see the possibilities but
that’s part of the fun. You can do really cool things all along the way.
You can find this tutorial at Cineversity or many other similar searching for ‘effectors’ and/or ‘MoDynamics’
Mospline – hats to 3D Kiwi with a little Xpresso thrown in for fun.
With C4D 12 on the way ( got my tracking number yesterday, Yes), and Python in the package
ease of adding extra impressive effects is available for all.
This gem from Mr Kiwi has been available for some time with the magic of Mospline and this fairly simple tutorial presented on his C4D site, one of the best resources for Cinema
animating a spline path in C4D can be just about anything. Energy connections, cellular growth, ‘mystical’ writing.
Define your skeletal outline, add a shape for your spline’s body, parent them with a sweep nurbs – I’d do C4D just for the crazy shape names. I wanna be nurb when i grow up …..
you can have a lot of fun with C4D landscape primitive. Creating a diverse landscape with definitions for ‘furrows’, sea level, plateau it is very helpful to begin to create your own landscape model.
Create material that portray your land realistically,
you can animate your land dimensions if you want to do a universe creation gig – very flexible and C4D has all the goodies to go with it. Pyrocluster will help you create your volcano, smoke, if you like trapcode it is very easy to migrate to AE and add more pyrotechnics there.
I wanted a mandala sun using some of the geometery in AE than mapping trapcode’s ‘Shine’ to my sun object’s positions with the simplest of expressions binding shine to our sun.
easy to define your flight path with a spline. Once you like it, you may create second, rail to provide balance and banking. With ‘tangential’ chosen, your object, your mythical beast will orient with your railing and then
find some fun background …. or create your own. External video blends quite well if you want your cartoon to flirt with reality.
These recent animations have borrowed and been inspired by Anne Powers wonderful ’sourcebook’ to Cinema 4d.
With remarkable steps and guide tutorials but the delight of a child and an artist, she introduces us to the wonder, the wonder of Cinema 4d, of creation, and imagination.
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