From the course: Learning Cinema 4D Lite for After Effects
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Importing existing animations into CINEMA 4D Lite
From the course: Learning Cinema 4D Lite for After Effects
Importing existing animations into CINEMA 4D Lite
There are times when you're using Cinema 4D where you want to import an animation or an object from another file. There are lots of people giving away free elements for Cinema 4D, my favorite being Beeple. If you do a search for Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, you'll find his website here, where he has lots of resources, and inspiration that you can use in your projects. But the great thing about Mike is that he gives away lots of his resources for other artists to use. So I've actually taken a robot from his project, and I'm going to include that here and allow you to import it into the Cinema 4D file. Now before we do, I've extended the project. I've made it a lot longer, if we have a look here in our Attributes Manager, you'll see it's 300 frames long now. And I've made it 25 frames a second. Now, at the moment we only have 75 frames showing down here in the timeline. If you want to see all of the frames from the project, you can go to frame, frame project settings and it will show you…
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Understanding coordinates5m
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Understanding rotation2m 39s
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Timeline shortcuts3m 1s
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Basic keyframing of properties4m 31s
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Copying keyframes2m 3s
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Keyframe interpolation5m 20s
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Adjusting F-Curves5m 45s
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Holding values5m 8s
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Using XPresso to link properties: Part one4m 17s
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Using XPresso to link properties: Part two2m 27s
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Importing existing animations into CINEMA 4D Lite7m 34s
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Animating cameras in CINEMA 4D Lite4m 37s
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Animating using presets4m 32s
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