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Enhancing with textures and CINEMA 4D Lite

Enhancing with textures and CINEMA 4D Lite - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Guru: Animating Typography

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Enhancing with textures and CINEMA 4D Lite

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Cinema 4D Lite gives you a whole host of new options, when you're looking to create dimensional text and actually add, texture to what it is you've created. So let's go ahead and, jump into Cinema 4D and recreate the word surf, in 3D. Make sure you have layer one selected, and just go up under Layer and choose New > Maxon Cinema 4D file. Navigate in your exercises files folder, to the chapter five folder. In here, we can go ahead and rename this, project, Surf. And then click Save. Once, we are in Cinema, lets change the duration of my C40 Project. We need to go down here, to the bottom of my timeline and just change this, from 90 to 300. That way I'll know it's definitely, ten seconds long at 30 frames a second. I could change it to 25 and, make it 250 but, this will be perfectly fine for now. I'm going to click and hold here on the free hands line tool, and go down and choose, Text. With text selected in the Objects panel, we can go and change its attributes here in the Attributes…

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