In part 2 of this looping series, I show you how to seamlessly loop animations in Cinema 4D. Then, I show you the process on how I compress them into an Animated GIF. I included my Photoshop Action for automatically building Animated GIFs, too.
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Thanks Nick! BTW – Looks like the download link is busted.
All fixed. Thanks for the heads up.
My Cinema 4D timeline doesnt have the fancy icons on the panel… How can I enable it?
Can someone please help me? I can’t find where to enable these damn icons. Here is a screenshot of my timeline interface: http://i.minus.com/iqQFg60GmpfB5.jpg
Try clicking on the timeline tab and hitting the space bar.
Also under the Timeline menus you can find “view” and then click “F-Curve Mode.”
Thanks Nick sir
Hi Nick,
Many thanks for your videos tutorials, they are great !
What is the format of your videos, I try to make some, but I don’t find a correct format wich can be read either on a PC a MAC or an iPad… Can you help me ?
Thanks !!!
Thanks to share your obsession
If you know you want to work with linear animations it’s maybe better to go to project settings->key interpolation->interpolation=linear.
thank nick u’r awesome
Thanks man!
This is awesome! The animated texture is so simple, but so powerful.
Thanks Nick!
I can’t figure out why you had to make an action. I’m running Photoshop CS4 extended and I just open the image sequence and it creates a video layer. It asks for the frame rate. I type in 10 and it clips the timeline to 10 frames. Then I just save for web and choose gif and set the looping in the lower right corner.
I think you made it more complex than it needs to be. After PS7 they integrated a lot of the gif animation tools into PS. They wanted to copy some of Fireworks abilities. Now they don’t have to do that. lol.
Yeah same here, I don’t understand why you need to use the Action.
I have always just imported the quicktime into Photoshop, then Save for Web and Devices, loop forever and then Save. Easy as that
But nice tutorial, thanks
this message to thank you dude !
good job as always !
Thank you, sir.
Great little tutorial Nick
Although I’m now cross eyed
Ah animated GIFs, got to love ‘em. If you’re feeling more advanced, may I recommend loops AND tiling?
http://sheepfilms.co.uk/b3ta/cubes.htm
http://sheepfilms.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/curtains.gif
exelente nick, queria saber si alguien puede ayudarme no logro abrir un archivo quicktime con photoshop, gracias
En Photoshop, ve a [File]–[Import]–[Video Frames to Layers...] y en la proxima pantalla, selecciona tu archivo Quicktime y le das Open en la proxima pantalla vas a tener un preview de tu video y varias opciones a tu izquierda, asegurate de donde dice “Range To Import” de seleccionar la primera opcion que dice “From Beginning To End”, deja el resto como esta y tambien haz un check-mark en el cuadrito que dice “Make Frame Animation” y listo le das OK.
Ojala te ayude si no lo haz descubierto ya.
Ciao.
Thank you from France Nick!
Have a look on my GIF
http://apg1979.tumblr.com/post/16375099774
Nice. I love the spiral!
I played with clones, offset them and animate the camera. Here’s what it looks like : http://i777.photobucket.com/albums/yy57/Grognoo/Looping-Animation.gif
Thanks Nick.
Nice one.
Hey Nick, There’s actually an option in photoshop to automatically import video frames as layers.
File > Import > Video Frames to Layers.
Hope this information helps
Yet again a good tut Nick. Thanks.
Easy way to work out your offset percent – set your tile to a whole number (not essential, but it will make everything look neat) then divide 100 by whatever number you’ve chosen. 8 = 12.5, 7=14.286, 6=16.667 and so on. Do the calculation in the OSX calculator and you can even copy/paste the number into the keyframe.
thanks nick. did you notice any bluriness on your projects? i heard that in photoshop we have to sharpen the layers before save as web and devices.
With photography for sure, but not with 3d too often.
haha this is fun! Nice tutorial nick!
Check it out..
http://quikk.se/?7d6ec0
hehe, that one made my eyes hurt!
Hey great tut Nick!
Check out my animated Giff: http://the3dleopard.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4ngvxr
Thanks Nick, as always a superb tut. Great to see your inspiration for this, and love your enthusiasm, it’s so damn infective.
*infectious
Tip: Divide 100% between your amount of tiles and keyframe that number into your offset, e.g. in your tutorial the number of tiles is about 8.
100 / 8 = 12,5 for offset to loop
No need to eyeball this, just do the math!
Great tutorial BTW!
This one doesn’t seem to be as seamless of a loop as I hoped but really glad I figured out the workflow.. definitely doing more of these.
http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles7/287791/projects/2787717/cc00c496934a9a8028c2a7020c12f897.gif
Thanks Nick!
Check out these gifs pretty interesting stuff.
http://dailypicksandflicks.com/2011/04/16/cinemagraphs-animated-gifs-as-art-picture-gallery/
Animated GIFs are great!
This is my all-time favorite: http://senorgif.memebase.com/2010/04/30/back-to-work/
Really enjoying your tutorials!
Great tut, here is my stab at one: http://www.danfoznot.com/ball_bounce.html
Great concept!
Damnit, I started making these just before this tut came out! Now everyone will be making them!
Here’s my tumblr with some of my gifs:
http://monsieurhamel.tumblr.com/
you could use 10% v and animate up to 10%
Hey Nick great tut as always!, thanks for this one I love it!, also check some ones from me here: https://plus.google.com/photos/117431716881268491778/albums/5702994339748860257
I’m planning to make more, any feedback will be appreciated!, thanks!
Was trying to see how many colours and size i could get away with.
http://dcreative101.deviantart.com/#/d4o6f1n
Full screen and its loops nicely…..THANKS NICK!!
Another super nice tutorial Nick!
Look this is my first GIF thanks to you.
http://eddguerrero.blogspot.com/2012/02/gif1.html
Great tutorial Nick! But i’m still wondering how to make your Blowup Sphere ( http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/BlowUpSphere5.gif ).
I think it is soft body, but i cant achieve this effect. So can you tell me how to do it?
Thanks.
Sir Nick,my photoshop cant open the animation file from c4d. any advice?
Nick,
Nice tut. Informative and inspiring.
made a little somethin’ for the holiday
http://peterchristofferson.tumblr.com/post/17327240848
My first attempt
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12766442/1_day.gif
If you render out your cinema 4d file as a quicktime movie or AVI you can open up photoshop go to file > Import > video frames to layers. that way all you need to do is then go to file > save for web and devices. Occassionally you may want to add an adjustment layer on top of your animation for colour or exposure correction etc.
THX the .atn its great action, and thank you very much when you make a very good tutorials. You have taught me a lot of C4D, AE.
I’m really grateful for the teaching.
Thank you Nick
I smile
thanks for inspiring me. with your help I do a lot of stuff in c4d and posting it for fotolia.
Hello,
I tried this tutorial, however when I rendered my scene the material did not load. Does anyone know what could be the reason for this? Its ok in a static scene but when i include the animation the textures dont render…
I appreciate any help,
Thank you heaps.