How to make a Simple Spin Logo Animation with Cinema 4D


In this tutorial, I use Cinema 4D, Mograph and the Random Effector to animate a simple logo. I also show you how to texture your text with different textures for the front and sides. Finally, we animate a camera using CS Tools Easy cam and prepare our animation for render.

Final Animation

Watch Part 2

Inspiration for this tutorial from Reserve17

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  1. Lucas says:

    Thanks. Greetings from Germany :)

  2. Bob says:

    Hey. great videos. on c4d i dont have a null object button where yours is. Please tell me what i should do or if i have an older version of c4d

  3. Don d says:

    how come every time i put in the null between the text and the fracture, it dissaperes

  4. iLoveGorilla says:

    Hey Grey Scale Gorilla!
    Hello,
    I put material on the Text Objects jacket and it’s not made me the color I wanted, I put it on Fracture Object that has the logo color I wanted
    Is two pictures illustrate:
    1. material that became the text Objects jacket:
    http://img24.imageshack.us/i/47529420.png/

    2. Material made the point to the Fracture Object:
    http://img190.imageshack.us/i/45160421.png/

    Help Please
    I Love Your Tutorials!! You are an amazing person!

  5. Johan says:

    Very Nice Tut. This was my first experience with c4d and with this very detailed tutorial i got an amazing result. Thanks man!

  6. S.J says:

    This is my first practice that I use cinema4d.
    Thanks to Your easy explanation, I get nice work!!
    Thank you gorilla~ you are a FP (Fantastic Person)

  7. Wiktors says:

    Tnks from Latvia (LV) very nice and poverful tutorial !!!

  8. Arturo Gil says:

    Following your tut. Tried to do the null object thing to make work Random Effector and Fracture Object. Text disappeared from preview. Help Nick! you´re the man!

  9. Arturo Gil says:

    I used an AI-imported spline and voila! It works. Seems C4D´s text tools are still weird & crappy after all these versions…

  10. Poska978 says:

    Un grand merci !

    You’re awesome, you explain very well !
    It was just a little hard for Easycam installing… Final video is just GREAT !

    Thx again.

  11. Weavermedia says:

    I have a problem with assigning a black colour to the text. I am using trial version of R12. Basically any surface of the text that faces the camera goes a light grey colour rather than black.

    Default Light is switched on in the Render Options because without this I can’t see anything at all in the render since the floor light is faked with a gradient.

    Am I missing some obvious ‘you-really-should-have-this-switched-on/off’ setting?

    • Weavermedia says:

      OK so I found that I can change the direction of the Default Light from the Display/Deafult Light… menu on the viewport. That has certainly solved the grey faces on the text. Well, it’s moved them around at least!

  12. Max says:

    The font is called MOD

  13. iDied says:

    Hi there Nick, you are simply amazing…I’m new to your blog, and I love it, its awesomeness…I have one question, when I come to the “c1, c2″ part, it doesnt actually work, it keeps taking off the material from the whole text, I went through the tut for like 10 times, and its still the same… I’m not sure if I explained that well, but can you help me plz :)

    I’m using r12 btw!

  14. Andrey says:

    where can i find the lightning kit?

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  16. Dominic C says:

    hi nick. this is what i got using your guide. i also added the cs stroke tool

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-HWrcwwB5s

  17. nivi says:

    your tutorials are kick ass!

  18. Dzulhusne says:

    Do u know what effects is used in Reserve 17 intro ?

  19. David Jantsky says:

    Thanks a lot Nick! amazing tutorial, you take good time explaining everything and its crystal clear and easy to follow! in only 40 minutes i managed to do a similar (almost the same, but im going to change it after some practice) video for my Trance group Kagenmi :) ! thank you very much!

  20. Gayan says:

    Fatastic work

  21. Isaac V. says:

    This is the font used in the first example:

    http://fontfabric.com/mod-font/

    Enjoy!!

  22. EMMANUEL says:

    the font was not bifurk it was the mod font

  23. King says:

    Hey Nick, are you using the default light and if so which direction are you pointing it, because when I angle my text the same way you have yours angled, the color of the letters turn grey-ish…can I have any kind of help with this because it would really help me with future projects

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