After finishing the last tutorial I received several emails from other people showing how they approached spiral growth. This time I run through a variety of new ways to do the same thing and describe the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Methods Discussed
• Bend Deformer
• Extrusion Deformer
• Formula Object
• MoSpline
• CS_Recursive Spline
• FK/IK Joint Chain
Links
• xsDeformation
• Chris Smith’s Python Cheat Sheet
Files
• Recursive Spline by Chris Smith
• Golden Formula by The Monkey
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62 Comments
ha! Time to ignore work and watch this! Thanks Mike! EW-EW-AH-AH! And thanks Nick, for letting The Monkey on your blog! LOVE IT
awesome and useful as ever. thx both of u
Who’d a thought a Monkey and a Gorilla could make such sweet music together, um motion graphics that is. Love it, hey Monkey you need to do some tutorials on how to use SoundKeys, PLEASE oh PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome – glad you replied to my FK/SK request Mike!
Once again, thank you so much Mike !
The Gorilla & the Monkey are about to take over the world !!!
I’m always up for a tutorial!
Even if its for a program I don’t have.
Really amazing stuff.
Again: Thx. Just plain informative and relaxing to watch!
Brilliant stuff! You blow my mind with the amount of science you put into your work, thanks for putting it into easy to digest chunks of nutricious information!
Damn great tutorial, thanks mike
great stuff man really helpfull
Got so much out of both of these videos man, love your intelligence and enthusiasm with 3d. Has been really fun learning and can’t wait for the next video.
3d meier has some amazing spiral stuff on his site. A lot of it can be downloaded, and there are some Coffee plugins for Lorenz attractors and the such.
Log spiral here
http://www.3d-meier.de/Tut1/Seite4.html
Use Google Chrome to go there and you will be given the option to translate the page to english, which is what I did
Thanks for the great video
Alex
m-_g on July 22nd, 2010 said...
Such a great link !!! Thank’s Alex
Like the others in this thread I like the way you describe complex problems in a relaxing and thoughtful way that’s more informative then intimidating. Well done sir. You would make a great instructor.
yes this was very helpful! i didnt know about the twirl down menus on the mospline either, this is going to save me alot of time. cheers.
Cs_recursive spline looks great as well, well done Chris.
Cheers Mike, fantastic tips!
Again great stuff! I’ll keep this in mind!
The Monkey 4 President! X-D
cheers,
Always get exited by seeing a new post from the monkey and benefit so much from the tips and techniques from the tutorials!!!! Looking forward about your upcoming plans ….
Thanks for sharing your time!!!
MONKEY MANIA! Yes! Thx dude! Very good stuff!
you have a sexy voice!
This is just great! Please – join your ape forces and put out some more of these!
Thanks~!!!! very inspiring
haha you should get paid for that. its not like tutorial, its online lessons. and its awesome! i would love to see more theory stuff, as for project orientated tutorials there is the gorilla. you guys could even refer on each other in the tutorials, doing on practical part on a concrete example, and the technical part that is behind, talking more about the possibilities behind the technics. i also think its nice that there are people like you who plan the things and not just put physics to see what happens…
please go on and stay motivated!!
hahaha
“Like a jerk he wrote 25 lines of code that completely replaced me as an individual”
Good to hear you talk man.
i realy hope you will be doing some more videos
QUALITAY! Thanks a lot!
Great presentation, Monkey. I think you should know my wife snickers every time you say bone, boning, joint, grab a joint, and joint chain.
the_Monkey on July 21st, 2010 said...
That’s awesome. Our ladyfriends tolerate so much of our geekery. Chris Smith’s wife and my girlfriend probably know as much about C4D as we do.
Girls who love geeks are twice as sexy.
C.Smith on July 22nd, 2010 said...
So trü…..So trøø
Thanks Mike! This was great and I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. It’s great to learn the foundation in vid 1 and then the optional ways in vid 2. Great stuff. Please, please, please keep it up!!!!
The Monkey makes me want to learn stuff! Keep up the good work! Props to GSGorilla for promoting the knowledge sharing.
respect!!
i have been following your blog for a while now nick.. but never commented.. just consumed everything whole
with mike in now.. things are getting way too good to be quiet about it.. amazingly awesome ..
Ahhhh damnit, python.. yet another thing Im behind the curve on.. thanks a lot mike. no really thanks, a lot..
Thanks Mike and GSG, really like the tutorials.
great tutorial monkey
This stuff is da bomb
Love it – thanks!
Hey Monkey, thank you very much for this great video. You went through so many amazing stuff and I must say I got LOTS of tips & tricks from them you. Keep rocking. We need more talents spreading their secrets
Speaking of “Golden Proportions”…
There is a programm called “Atrise Golden Section”, which I often use.
Sometimes it really helps.
Link:
http://www.atrise.com/golden-section/
“wacky crazy mcgee”
nice work!
Awesome! Keep ‘em coming.
Hey, nice tut!
i have a question, i want to animate a industrial robot arm. And i dont know how to!
Mayby you could make a short tutorial about that.
nice work!!
the_Monkey on July 23rd, 2010 said...
I think almost everything you’d need to know is in either this or the first tutorial. I would suggest the IK Joint approach. Just make fewer segments.
Superb information and inspiring thank you Mike, Nick and Chris………
Thanks again for your time and knowledge, it’s inspiring not only artistically, but just how much you both share with the world.
Hey Mike, I just wanted to say thank you! Your first video taught me how to animate these tubes using joints; invaluable lesson man!
I was working on a promo video for a client and I was scratching my head… I used your joint technique to dynamically animate these tube things on my skybot.
Please check out my video you helped me finish!!
http://vimeo.com/13341921
Thank you!
- Shawn Astrom
Here is a good link for more Golden Ratio info:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldenRatio.html
Warning: its pretty high on the geek factor but very interesting.
@Mike: Have you seen the movie “Inception”? The sequence where the street starts to bend upwards…do you think that the street was CG-ed was using the same IK bone/bend deformer technique? It kind of reminded me of your first Spiral tut!
Hi,dear monkey.Great work! and can you tell me what type (brand/model) of microphone are you using to record your videos? thx!!!:)
Awesome! Another amazing post!
Thanks Nick
So great stuff monkey! I´m about to jump to cinema 4d and start playing with all this stuff… thanks a lot!
Another great tut, thanks for sharing Monkey! Looking forward to your next one.
Monkey thanks so much for taking the time to make this, very entertaining and educational!!! you rock. thanks also to Nick for showcasing you here
can’t wait for more!!!
Dude! Your hair looks so much better! Great tutorial AS ALWAYS!!!
Hi Mr. Monkey, i was playing around with particles and modynamics the other day and i was wondering if you could shine your genious light on this subject because i think it’s verry interesting.
this is the vid i made
http://www.vimeo.com/13709197
This is an amazing tutorial.
Theres more here than what is covered which i like. With a little brain juice you can do some cool things with this.
Many many thanks.
Great stuff. Really great.
Hi I am writing from Colombia is the first time I dare but there is something that is causing discomfort when I export to after effects and I pass the camera + light comp let me know if I can say how to make me not go this component I’ve tried many ways but always comes in after thanks
The Gorilla on August 1st, 2010 said...
What is the discomfort? Does it work at all? You may need to install the Connect plugin.
i like the gorilla better
a more comfortable I feel good when you leave one comp and thought it was only me that none of your tutorials I have found out this compo
thanks
Thank you very much!!!
Very cool video, quite informative! It’s always great to see how many different approaches there are to every problem in C4D. In case someone’s interested, I sat down and wrote a Fibonacci spiral generator in Py4D, which comes pretty close to the golden ratio. http://michaelauerswald.de/blog/2010/08/04/py4d-fibonacci-spiral/
Cheers
Hi Monkey!
The Gorilla seems to drink a little too much coffee lately, so its nice to hear your quiet rumble.
(gorilla your great)…
on topic… how about the epicycloid in the spline menu?
i can seem to get some spiral stuff there, i’m not nearly as good with numbers as. well, my cat, but i wondered if you took a look at this option.
hope to hear from you, and hope to see you back soon!
Kind regards,
Remco, remmac
Hey guys u should do a tutorial on how to rig stuff with armatures
While playing with the cloner I stumbled on another way to make a spiral of sort.
Linear, Mode Per step and step mode Cumulative.
Mike, if you like a very neat movie about the golden spiral than check this out
http://www.etereaestudios.com/docs_html/nbyn_htm/movie_index.htm
Greetings
Brilliant stuff.
Just playing about with MoSpline, and using ‘ind’ as a value (i.e. the point index) in the formula field – in place of tweaking the spline – generates some nice spiral effects. You can exaggerate the effect by multiplying to this or some nice effects by subtracting from this value too.