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Disco text in Cinema 4D

Disco text in Cinema 4D

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Disco text in Cinema 4D

- [EJ] Welcome to Motion Graphics Weekly, where you up your MoGraph knowledge one week at a time. I'm EJ Hassenfratz, let's get our learn on! In this week's video, I'll show you how to create some disco ball style 3D text you can use for type or logos that you want to inject some 70s goodness into. So I got a brand new scene here. Let's go ahead and create some MoText. So I'm going to just type in the word disco, I'm going to then adjust this alignment to the middle, and change up the font to Helvetica Neue, and change this to a bold italic, so we get a little bit more weight there. Then I'm going to adjust the depth to make this extrude a little bit longer, so that it has a little bit more of a dynamic look, and then I'm going to create some fillet caps to add a nice chiseled edge. And what I'm going to do is just increase the radius of this chisel a bit to seven centimeters, and I'm going to keep that radius number in mind, because that's the size of the little glitter piece I'm…

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