In this tutorial, I show you how to stop time in your Mograph Dynamic renders. I call it the “Matrix Effect” where time stops or stands still for a moment before it starts again. I’ll show you how I use the Project Settings to control the speed and timing of an explosion.
The Final Result
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Sweet. Thank You !
very cool, I kinda want to combine this with the shatter an object tutorial
Kai Pedersen on February 5th, 2010 said...
Cinversity has a tutorial on how to shatter a glass window with the slow motion effect. So both the shattering and the slow mo all in one.
Its two parts, one for setting up the window shatter and the other for animating including the slow mo.
http://www.cineversity.com/tutorials/lesson.asp?tid=1608
http://www.cineversity.com/tutorials/lesson.asp?tid=1609
Amazing render, will be trying this soon. I would also like to see if adding some kind of motion blur during the pause/spin might add a neat little effect without killing the Maxtrixy look. Thanks!
Great one nick!
Im still wating for the one that you showed a few days ago… that with the multiple caps text…or something like that.. fucking loved that effect @.@
best wishes!!! Teb
great stuff! can you show us that soft box and skyline light trick? love the render!
The Gorilla on February 5th, 2010 said...
Those lights will be included in an upcoming Light Kit that will be released this month.
looks great
Hey nick great work,but you should slow even more the camera rotation,SHOULD hehe
but thanks im a big fan anyway
Thanks Nick, I was wondering what this time scale thing is and out of ignorance never gave it a try…
btw, love your site, thanks for sharing!
wow cool!
is it also possible, that the animation goes on but slowly?
The Gorilla on February 5th, 2010 said...
Yeah, just stretch the keyframes farther apart.
Bamm! Nice and smooth Tutorial – Thanks to the Gorilla!
Awesome tutorial!
Thanks!
Very nice – super useful tip there.
Will this work in C4D r11?
J
The Gorilla on February 5th, 2010 said...
You need Cinema 11.5 and Mograph 2 to use MoDynamics.
Wow, busy these days! Thx!
Hope you find some time to judge the 5 second projects and to put up the next one
Hi, thanks for the tutorial, but its possible freeze only a part of the objects, or you can only freeze all the dinamycs at the same time?
thanks again
erik on February 5th, 2010 said...
create 2 cloner objects…one to freeze and otherone without freeze. i would do like this.
Hey Nick,
Cool tut. I saw a similar one on cinversity and then I was sad that it could only be done in R11.5
as I only have R11.
I asked a mate how to do this effect in R11 and he couldn’t really come up with a solution in C4D. Although I’ve seen this effect for a long time I hope there is a work around and if any one knows you toss it up on the board!
That said, I do know a 2 ways to work around in After Effects, for people using R11 and lower.
1) Time remapping to slow down the animation it’s not an exact science but can be done.. You need to do “frame blending” to get rid of the “jittery” style of your stretched frames.
2) Theres a 3rd party after effects plug in that will give a smooth time remap effect. Sorry I can’t remember the plug in name or company :S it starts with an “F” I will have to wait till I grab the email from work to see what the plug is.. but yah if any one knows what it is post it up would be a big help for previous C4D users.
Great effect!!!!!!!
Huh, is it 10 years ago already?
Just kidding, everybody still loves the bullet time effect
Keep it up Nick!
The Gorilla on February 7th, 2010 said...
Overused… Probably. Still effective… You bet.
Hey Gorilla I ask to you for this tutorial….
THANX DUDE YOU ARE GREAT!!!!
Alessandro Boncio
The Gorilla on February 7th, 2010 said...
Any time! Thanks for asking!
awesome effect
with your tutorials you made me fall in love with Cinema 4D . Thank you
The Gorilla on February 7th, 2010 said...
Glad I could help!
Excellent tutorial Nick!!! I’m looking forward to this lighting product.
http://www.vimeo.com/9259790
Thanks Nick!!
Magic on February 7th, 2010 said...
finaly converted, maybe need to plus on vimeo. It took over 13 hours…..
Great Stuff! But, i still have a little question…
How is this Time stretch possible to accomplish for Normal\classic keyframed animation? not Modynamics? Because, for now, i have No idea how to do this [tried the F-curves graph, and found nothing]..so my only [stupid] option is to render all my scene @ 60fps, and just Time Remap it in AE. Unless one of you can offer a solution?
Mediengestalt on February 7th, 2010 said...
afaik that would involve (quite a lot of) manual work.
If you have an animation from frame 0-90 and want a camera spin around from let’s say frame 40 to 70, you would have to hold all other animation tracks in that range, e.g. create a new keyframe in frame 40 (you could easily do so by Strg+Click in that track at frame 40) and copy that one to frame 70 (drag and drop with strg held). But you’d have to repeat that for each animation track (except the camera)…
To set the keyframe in frame 40 for all selected animation tracks at once you could press ‘q’ (or choose File > Record Current State in Timeline Window).
If you want to freeze everything you have to copy frame 40 keyframes to frame 70, if you want the animation to be slomo you could forward to e.g. frame 50 press q again and move all those generated keyframes to frame 70.
With a little extra work on f-curves you can reach a nice slowmo effect.
hth
The Gorilla on February 7th, 2010 said...
I would just use AE. If something can be done in AE, I would ALWAYS do it there. Tweaking in 3D is usually not worth it. I say get it close and finish up in compositing.
Danny on February 7th, 2010 said...
thanx to both of you guys, for your reply
But, Nick.That’s the thing, isnt it? I know you are a very proficient guy, and so, if i go by the route you suggested (which is what i thought of as well), that means im going through X2 times the Render time. instead of 24-25fps, its now 50-60 frames per second. so, im just thinking forward, what will i do next time, when ill have a tight deadline..u know. just a thought
nick hello! Thanks for your great tutorials, they very helpful.however we need more After Effects tutorials!!specially like unfolding animation))
Best!
The Gorilla on February 7th, 2010 said...
Yeah, I definitely need to go back to my roots in AE. More to come for sure!
great tutorial, thank you
Hi Nike
Thank you for your realy nice Tutorials
Regards
Once again a great tut! Thanks, your efforts are much appreciated!
it’s very generous of you to share everything you learn to us. you keep nothing to yourself it seems
Thanks Nick!
Nick Thanks!! We will wait for your new tuts:))by the way, where can i get microphone like you have?)))
The Gorilla on February 7th, 2010 said...
Thanks! The mic is a Heil PR-40.
Hi Nick! Just one quick question: can we achieve the same effect with out any modynamics animation? Lets say i just animate an object manually, for example, i animate the position of a sphere, from A to B, can i do the same “matrix effect”???
Thanks!
The Gorilla on February 8th, 2010 said...
If you are keyframing anyway, then I would just keyframe your matrix effect. Stop the movement for a time and then start the movement. Or, if your render times aren’t too long, you can try Time Remaping in AE.
Thanks kiddo…
http://www.vimeo.com/9291523
Hi Nick,
I have a question about vimeo compression. Hope you or anyone here can help. When a i compress my videos at H264, the warm colors seems to be very washed. Is there any work around to get the best colors from my videos when i compress them?
Sorry for the english, have to practice more!
Greetings from Brazil. =o)
Magic on February 10th, 2010 said...
I have seen the same effect,now I don’t compress to video in c4d, I use after effects
I’m liking C4D more and more everyday! Great Tutorial!
Found the plug in I was talking about earlier. Its called, “Kronos” from Furnace for AE.
Great and simple!!! Thaks!
Hey Nick, great tutorial heres a massive scene i applied this technique to :],
first test http://vimeo.com/9280240
and final http://vimeo.com/9332689
god bless my little macbook pro
gav
Thanks Nick…. Thats just what I wanted!
Wow! I am hooked! I can´t help myself. Stopping is an old but fun trick. (Thanks grey monkey or the smart tip, much better than screwing around with variable FPS)
http://www.vimeo.com/9350544
Is it that you do tutorials on whats on my list, or you read my mind, i was working on that same effect here (http://vimeo.com/9418962) I just ended up using function of copying “as-is” or sunfin like that.
But ima give this a try and try it again.
about the AE tutorials, C4d is addictive and it’s hard to go back to 2d compositing, once you learn what can be done with these programs.
My Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4g3ahya3Gk&fmt=22
What do you think ?
Thanks Nick. I know I am a little late to the party but here’s my test…
NICK
http://vimeo.com/nickrondeau/videos
Nick Rondeau on February 16th, 2010 said...
Totally copy and pasted the wrong thing…
http://vimeo.com/9432448
Thanks for the great tutorial! Quick and cool- I love this stuff. MoGraph is so powerful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfd1-VCOuSY
A bit late, but the stop time effect is really useful (to me). Another example:
http://www.vimeo.com/isabelito
thanks again gray monkey.
ooops:
http://www.vimeo.com/9620075
Great tutorial !
I tried to use the technique in a special case but it had some limitations.
I’d like to have an object explosion with all the pieces flying and then reconstruct into a nice 3D logo.
I explose my object with the destruction plugin but after that… There’s no “back in time” possibilty ?
Perhaps with the use of a force to attract the pieces.
I Hope that somebody has a solution.
Cheers
why doesn’t the timescale affect the heading of the camera….b/c what if you want to apply this technique to the whole entire scene, not just the moDynamics….???