From the course: Mograph Techniques: Mixing 2D and 3D with After Effects and Cinema 4D

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Creating a ribbon animation as a transition

Creating a ribbon animation as a transition

From the course: Mograph Techniques: Mixing 2D and 3D with After Effects and Cinema 4D

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Creating a ribbon animation as a transition

One creative use of the tools in Cinema 4D to create 2-D style elements is the ability to bend objects around splines in 3-D space. I'll be demonstrating this by creating a ribbon that spins around and motivates the book spin animation. So let's go ahead and navigate to our Project file. You can find this in your exercise files in Chapter 2. Open up 02_01_Ribbon_twirl. So here you'll see, I already created a helix that we'll use for our spline, and our ribbon object here that is just a flattened cube. So you can see it's laying flat right now. So to be able to get our cube to bend around this spline, we're going to use a very handy object called the Spline Wrap. And it's aptly named because as the name says, it wraps objects around splines. Let's go ahead and go to our Deformers menu here, and we'll navigate to Spline Wrap. Now, to make this work, we're going to drag our Spline Wrap as a child of our ribbon twirl cube here. And you'll see in our Options, we have to define a spline. So…

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