In this tutorial I’ll be sharing some quick tips to help you be a better animator in Cinema 4D. For those of you coming from After Effects, I’ll relate some of the important animation techniques you probably use very often in After Effects and how they can be done in Cinema 4D.
Topics covered in this tutorial are:
Gimbal Lock: What It Is & How to Avoid It
Quaternion Expression
Overdub
Align to Path Tag
Creating “Roving Keyframes” with the Constant Velocity Function
How to Loop/Repeat a Set of Keyframes
Hopefully after watching these quick tips, it’ll help you be a better animator in your day to day workflow!
How can one stagger keyframes like in AE
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Thanks for the tips. I am coming from After Effect, and they are really useful! :D
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Another quick solutions to the gimbal lock problem. Before animating the object, hit ALT+G to group it in a Null. After that you can easily animated the object the same way you wanted in the first place without any problems from within the group (not the group itself).