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Animating 3D line graphs with CINEMA 4D Lite

Animating 3D line graphs with CINEMA 4D Lite - After Effects Tutorial

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Animating 3D line graphs with CINEMA 4D Lite

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- Now that we have some 3D models built in our After Effects project, we're ready to animate. So, let's go. Once you've created a model in Cinema 4D Lite, then it's time to actually go ahead and create some animation. But, if we look in our composition panel here, you'll notice that I can't really see exactly what's going on in my scene. So, I'm having a hard time visualizing what my scene will look like in After Effects when I'm inside of Cinema 4D. So, let me show you a quick fix for that as we animate our line graph. So, in the project panel, I'll go ahead and select my Cinema 4D layer and then press cmd + e, or ctrl +e, on Windows, to edit the original file. Now notice in here, in my Cinema 4D Lite preview, I have a light area and a dark area. This is suppose simulate the crop, or the area of view within my After Effects project. But the default settings for Cinema 4D Light are set up at 800 by 600. And my project was 1280 by 720. So I need to change my project settings. So let's…

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