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
Thanks. Greetings from Germany
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
how come every time i put in the null between the text and the fracture, it dissaperes
the text dissaperes i mewn
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!
Very Nice Tut. This was my first experience with c4d and with this very detailed tutorial i got an amazing result. Thanks man!
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)
Tnks from Latvia (LV) very nice and poverful tutorial !!!
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!
I used an AI-imported spline and voila! It works. Seems C4D´s text tools are still weird & crappy after all these versions…
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.
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?
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!
The font is called MOD
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!
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got it now, I just turned the “Caps” on 
….but hey, thank you for this great tut 
where can i find the lightning kit?
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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
your tutorials are kick ass!
Do u know what effects is used in Reserve 17 intro ?
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!
Fatastic work
This is the font used in the first example:
http://fontfabric.com/mod-font/
Enjoy!!
Thanks a lot Isac!!
the font was not bifurk it was the mod font
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
hello, i couldn’t get the exclusion for reflection to work with your lighting kit, works fine with creating a plane like in your video, just not with lighting kit, even if i follow the exact same steps… any ideas? thanks! p.s ive learnt more in 3 days follwing your tutorials than i learnt through 2 years of a degree course learning maya
Great tut Gorilla as always!! In the name of all us starters in C4D i thank you for the great help you give us. I salute you from Italy!
Guys, I don’t have a website but I love the ideas you guys put on the site. I need help and I need some advise. I am building a website that I need a images of global ball turning as we use the mouse spinning it.
On the global ball has name like Google, yahoo, skype, myspace, facebook and many others. when we need to go to the website we just move the ball around to find the name and then click the name it will like to that website.
Is there such thing you guys can built or come up with?
Please give me some ideas if that would be possible.
Thank you
Sean
Hey Nick, loving your work and your inspiring tuts, I’ve learnt so much from just watching a few of your videos. I can’t thank you enough.
This is the first animated…err…thing I’ve done. I took your tutorial and added a light with volumetric lighting inside 2 of the letters so it shines out when they open up. Any feedback would be grateful.
https://vimeo.com/40829179