Join EJ Hassenfratz for an in-depth discussion in this video Animating "G" using Jiggle deformer and adjusting falloff direction, part of Mograph Techniques: Creating a Bouncy Cartoon Logo in Cinema 4D.
For the letter G, we'll use the the jiggle deformer…with the linear falloff and set key frames to have…our G rotate in, so it looks like the curling…tail of the G really flops in.…So let's go ahead and first go to our G connect.…We're going to disable this center axis.…What I want to do is actually change the axis…center to more closer to this hole in our G,…so what we're going to do is go ahead to…our G extrude, zero out our coordinates,…and do the same thing for our subdivision surface,…so now we have our object centered on our axis…and now we can actually edit the anchor point…by enabling the axis modification tool,…and kind of just position this up towards here,…so this is where our rotation axis will be,…so we can really get a velocity going in…our rotation and have this tail part of the G…really look like it's flopping in, in a nice, fun way.…
So now let's go ahead and close that up,…get out of our axis modification tool,…and now we can just go ahead and solo…this G object by going to viewport solo single,…
Author
EJ Hassenfratz
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3/19/2015Author EJ Hassenfratz uses CINEMA 4D to extrude 3D text from Illustrator letterforms and animate the letters individually utilizing the very versatile Jiggle deformer, which applies fun, unique movements to each one. Then he adds bright, cheerful textures and lighting to the scene, and composites the final effect in After Effects, incorporating some finishing touches that will make your logo seem even more playful and expressive.
- Creating and designing cartoony 3D logo type
- Preparing text to be animated
- Animating with the Jiggle deformer, vertex maps, and other deformers
- Adding random, undulating movement
- Texturing and lighting the logo
- Setting for render
- Compositing in After Effects
- Adding motion blur and color correction
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome58s
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1. Creating the Cartoon Text
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2. Animating Using the Jiggle Deformer
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3. Animating With Alternative Methods
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4. Adding Materials, Lighting, and Camera
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Texturing the "Sproing" logo5m 14s
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Lighting the logo4m 18s
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Animating the camera move6m 30s
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5. Setting Up for Render and Compositing in After Effects
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Adding ambient occlusion2m 36s
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Conclusion
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Next steps1m 41s
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