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Animating 3D pie charts with CINEMA 4D Lite

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Animating 3D pie charts with CINEMA 4D Lite

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- Animating a 3D pie chart in Cinema 4D Lite is quite a bit of fun, especially when you're blurring the lines between 2D and 3D. One of the great ways to animate multiple objects in Cinema 4D Lite is through the use of the Fracture Object and an Effector. This will allow me to actually just move one thing around in my Cinema 4D scene and control the movement of all three of these pieces of our pie graph. So, to get started, let's select Layer 1 and press Command E or Control E on Windows to edit the original file. Once inside of Cinema 4D Lite, I want to place my Extrude objects inside of a Fracture Object. So, let's go up to Mograph and go down to Fracture. Then, we can draw a lasso around all three of these pieces and then click on one of them and drag up onto the Fracture Object until the arrow points down. Now, when we select the Fracture Object, notice we have different channels that can kinda control what's going on. In my Fracture Object, the Mode is set to Straight; I don't…

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