How to Create and Animate an Umbrella Using Mosplines in Cinema 4D

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how you can find a very handy use for the often ignored Cinema 4D Mospline object. In this instance, we’ll use Mospline to create and animate an umbrella! First I’ll set up our umbrella using a few Mosplines and a Loft Object. Next, we’ll animate our umbrella using a Pose Morph tag. If you’re not familiar with Pose Morph, be sure to check out my tutorial on how powerful it is! Finally, I’ll show off some fun options inside Mosplines like the ability to have Mosplines be affected by particle forces like Turbulence and Wind.

If you have any questions, be sure to post it in the comments section and if you create anything cool using this technique, be sure to share it with me! Thanks for watching!

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15 Comments

Omri March 13, 2016 at 10:00 am

How do i create the materials?
Christina March 15, 2016 at 2:31 am

I tried this a few months back and it was so difficult. So glad to see how this actually works! Thank you!!!
aplainpeach March 16, 2016 at 4:35 am

Hi EJ!

Thank you for sharing such a great tutorial. And also for inspiring a lot of designers out there, like me! Have a good day Ej!
Luis March 16, 2016 at 4:21 pm

Hi, Thank you for this great tutorial. I am very new to cinema 4D and I have found your website and videos very helpful. I was wondering if you can explain how you made the towel “Unrolling” effect…. Thanks….
EJ Hassenfratz March 16, 2016 at 4:45 pm

Thanks! Glad you find some use from my tutorials! Keep on creating! :)
EJ Hassenfratz March 16, 2016 at 4:45 pm

Thanks Christina! Glad you enjoyed it!
stephane April 11, 2016 at 10:57 am

Hi, still very useful as usual. I was wondering how did you manage to get this perfect bouncing ball ? softbody dynamics or jiggle deformer ? all the best !
EJ Hassenfratz April 12, 2016 at 2:13 pm

Good ol’ traditional keyframing!
Anil Viji May 17, 2016 at 5:38 pm

Nice tutorial. Would have been cool if you can provide scene file for this. Want to check out the lighting and tweak other stuff. Anyways thanks for the tutorial.
Eric May 17, 2016 at 9:24 pm

Thanks EJ for all your tutorials. Its greatly appreciated to all of us new peeps trying to learnt the program.
EJ Hassenfratz May 19, 2016 at 3:15 pm

Thanks very much for those kind words, Eric! Really happy you find them useful!
Esben Rose June 16, 2016 at 9:35 am

Thx for this! Those material though….. Can you show?
AxeGlitch July 28, 2016 at 9:23 pm

http://www.eyedesyn.com/tutorials/achieving-2d-cel-shading-in-cinema-4d-without-sketch-toon/ :D
Valentino February 17, 2017 at 10:56 am

Here is my take on this Tut :)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQnB-tjlK-p/?taken-by=valentinolazmedia
EJ Hassenfratz February 21, 2017 at 7:35 am

Nice one, Valentino! Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing!