From the course: Cinema 4D Essential Training: 3 Cameras Animation and Deformers
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Creating bendable type - CINEMA 4D Tutorial
From the course: Cinema 4D Essential Training: 3 Cameras Animation and Deformers
Creating bendable type
Type is a common theme on motion graphics and one of the things that animators and/or designers often get asked to do is to distort type. CINEMA 4D has some great tools for distorting objects, but when you go to Distort Type there are some very special considerations to keep in mind. I've got this very simple word here Bendy. It's just an Extrude NURB there with the Text spline underneath it and I've got some caps on the Extrude NURB set to be Fillet Cap with the radius of 2 by 1. Now what I want to do is to bend this type. So let's go to Deformer Objects and add a Bend Deformer. A great rule of thumb when using the Deformer Object is to have the box that represents the deformer object be the same size or as close to the same size as the object you're going deform as possible. That's going to give you a lot more control and predictability over the deformation. So what I want to do is to switch to a four-way view and I'm going to raise up this box on the Y axis. So it's about on the…
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