Final CommentsĪlthough we are reviewing the Architectural Edition, new in Maxon’s Cinema 4D R11 is a new non-linear timeline animation system. They read more like text books than computer manuals, forgoing the usual “step 1” approach in the writing. Maxon does a wonderful job with its printed manual tutorial guides. In the animation above we turned a circular spline into our path.įor the beginner working with animations in Cinema 4D Architectural Edition 11 it will take some practice. You also generate paths or splines from which your camera will travel. You link real objects to these null objects to get your cameras to follow the objects you want. In C4D there are different types of cameras, including target cameras which track or follow particular objects called Null Objects. Instead of color, we could have changed the intensity of the light (eg: making the light come on from an off position or vice versa).Īnimations also need cameras, of course. The program interpolates across the color spectrum to travel from one key value to another. In our animation we set different keyframes for the color of the light we set in our scene. In our QuickTime animation above, of the actual output of our test animation, you can see the cone transform in shape (geometry) based on setting different parameters at different key frames (eg: changing the top radius of the cone primitive). It interpolates these values automatically across the 50 frames. C4D now knew that between frame 0 and frame 50 the cone had to change its top radius from 0 to 200m. Next we moved to frame 50 and changed the radii to different values, setting the top radius to 200m. We set a key for that parameter and hit the Record buttom to record that frame as a keyframe.

At each keyframe (eg: frame 0 and the later frames) you can change the values of parameters or attributes of objects in the animation, creating a key for a particular parameter.įor instance in our simple animation of a cone we set the top radius to 0m and the bottom radius to 100m. The basics of creating an animation involve setting up keyframes. A turquoise slider indicates what frame you are at. At the heart of this layout is the main scene window and below this your timeline. C4D R11 has its own Animation Layout choice, directed at streamlining the animation process. Setting up an animation is relatively straight forward and experience in other 3D animation software or working with non-linear film editors is helpful. In this view an animation has been setup and is in the process of being rendered out. 13 – C4D R11 has a specific Animation layout that streamlines the process of creating an animation.

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