Creating animation that can stop, start, and ease into position is a fundamental part of motion graphics animations. In this video, learn how to do this by manipulating an object's motion path using f-curves in the CINEMA 4D timeline.
- [Instructor] Now let's look at creating animation…that stops and starts and eases.…So we've got this logo and I would like it to…come from somewhere over here in the zed direction…and fly up to this point, stop and then fly off again.…So we'll select the logo and will create a key frame…on the zed position, frame 15.…And then we want to move it back in zed direction.…And we can do that by turning off these x and y handles.…
If I just go back to frame zero and…now when I just click on the model…it's constrained, even if I'm moving around…it's constrained to just that axis,…which is very handy.…So now I can just fire it off…into the distance like so and set a key frame.…So it's gonna come zooming forwards…and then at some point it's gonna fly off.…Probably quite far where,…just trying to get a very big number…and if we want to we can just type in something like -800.…
Alright so at the key frame.…So if we rewind the play head and shift F…is the keyboard shortcut for that, by the way,…you can now press play and it's flying…
Author
Andy Needham
Released
10/21/2016- Setting up scenes
- Modeling with splines
- Using Illustrator files in C4D
- Extruding depth and detail
- Animating in the Timeline
- Creating clones
- Using effectors
- Lighting motion graphics
- Applying materials
- Creating animated materials
- Compositing multipass renders with After Effects and C4D
- Rendering motion graphics in C4D
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome49s
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1. What Are Motion Graphics?
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What are motion graphics?3m 35s
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Examples of work4m 35s
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Big picture concepts6m 12s
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2. Setting Up a Project for Motion Graphics
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Workflow tips6m 41s
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Create a start scene2m 34s
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3. Working with Splines
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What are splines?4m 48s
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Create geometry with splines11m 4s
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4. Working with the Timeline
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What is the Timeline?6m 39s
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F-curve manipulation6m 28s
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Copy and offset keyframes3m 22s
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Move animated objects2m 1s
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What are special tracks?7m 17s
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5. The Power of MoGraph
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What is MoGraph?1m 46s
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Create clones7m 3s
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Use effectors8m 59s
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Other MoGraph objects5m 37s
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Break objects into pieces4m 20s
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6. Lighting for Motion Graphics
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How do lights work?3m 12s
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Scene lighting3m 6s
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7. Materials for Motion Graphics
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What are materials?3m 39s
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Create and apply materials6m 51s
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Create reflection objects6m 36s
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Make things have bumps7m 3s
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Animate animated materials3m 12s
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8. Rendering and Compositing for Motion Graphics
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Compositing tags6m 12s
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Common render settings4m 41s
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Set up multipass renders7m 58s
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Set up takes3m 44s
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What is CINEWARE?5m 56s
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The AEC workflow6m 11s
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9. Motion Graphics Challenge
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Challenge overview2m 9s
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Solution8m 47s
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Conclusion
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Next steps1m 18s
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