Explaining MoGraph

The MoGraph tools are tools that come bundled with the broadcast version and studio versions of Cinema4D. Now, those of you who have Cinema4D Lite can register your project and you can get the Fracture object. That'll give you a little taste of the fun that can be had with the MoGraph tools. Now, the general idea of MoGraph is to give you a tool set where you can easily build multiple graphic elements into a form or a structure. And then you can take that structure and use effectors to move those elements around the scene.

So, for example, a cloner object is a great object if you want to build a wall of repeating objects, but it could also be used to actually clone a model on to the outside of another model. And then you could use effectors to fly all those clones around the scene. There are a whole host of other tools as well. For example, a fracture object does a very good job of doing just that, breaking apart a seemingly single object into little objects. And again, you would use effectors to fly those objects around the scene. And there's even a text module that allows you to break text apart and fly the text around, again, using the effectors. Now, the tools in the MoGraph module are pretty intuitive.

So, I have to say, once I got comfortable, I was able to let my creativity fly. Now, enough talking. Let's go ahead and get started using our MoGraph tools.