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How to make a Simple Spin Logo Animation with Cinema 4D 226 Comments


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.

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Inspiration for this tutorial from Reserve17

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226 Comments

  2. J Henderson

    As i stated on Facebook, Nick your videos, and tutorials are amazing man!!! I’m working on a video right now for a contest. And I needed a logo tutorial with After Effects and Cinema 4D. And you pulled this one right in the NICK of time!! lol. If I win the $50K, i’ll mention your blog at the awards ceremony. I appreciate the content in which you produce. It’s truly inspiring for a student like me!!

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  3. QuakeMazer

    gorgeous looking forward to it! Still finishing up ice cube tutorial.

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  6. Danielw

    Great tut so far :) i also have been looking for som tutorials on presenting logos in different ways (for a upcoming reel), and this one looks really cool :)

    Also i have a small suggestion, if you could make a couple of small tutorials on how the different stuff (Tool, objects, effectors) in MoGraph works that would be really cool.. kinda like the ones you have made with the nurbs tools and the CS-tool tutorials

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    • Paul Agostinelli

      hahaha, I saw that one or two frames fly by in the video too, I thought the same thing “I want to see more of that ball project!”

      Reply

  8. Raphael Ribeiro

    awesome dude … i just found out your site yesterday … and i’ve already watched like 10 tutorials hahaha … i just got Cinema 4D i think it is much more dinamyc then 3D max and i love it :D hopefuly watching some more tuts today =)

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    • Rado

      come on, why dont u just ask robert himself?!
      he´s a nice guy,and can give u certainly some hints,how he did this intro!

      btw nice tut,nick :)

      Reply

    • Danielw

      Alan, if you find out how to make i plz post a link… looks really cool i would like to know as well :)

      Reply

  12. matt

    when i put the big soft box on top I don’t get the reflection on the text at the top just more toward the sides of the text. HELP!!! nick

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  13. NACOTIC

    man, thats awesome.. looks so great but its so simple, too. great work, gorillaboy ;)

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  14. DaniSang

    Awesome Tutorial Nick
    I knew mostly how to build it when I saw the preview. I found that out with luck, but never toughed you could create something cool out of it.

    Also I got an unrelated question. Could you do a tutorial related to sound? All the animations look cool, but the sound gives an awesome feeling to it when done right.

    Ones again! Keep up with this, you are a true inspiration for me!

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  16. newroyal

    Mr Campbell, you did it again! You really boost my learning curve.

    Reply

  17. Yoshi

    Hahaha awesome how you say my name :P
    Thank you so much :D no YOU ROCK ^^
    Looking forwart to part 2, im gonna make it when my imac is repaired =]
    Thanks again!

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  18. zymos

    Just wanted to point out that, towards the beginning where you increased the spacing cause the letters were touching, you can also check “constrain” under the Caps tab, which basically compensates for the extra width from the bevels.

    Happy to see a new tutorial- looks beautiful, and can’t wait for part 2!!

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    • Matt Frodsham

      Yep, everyone needs to know this. They should put a big red sticker on the box. Especially if you’re extruding someone’s logo – you don’t need extra thickness messing it up, but this goes for fonts in general. They’re designed to look that way, not for us to stick extra crap around the edges in stuffing up the counters haha.

      Constrain your caps!

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      • The Gorilla

        The Gorilla

        Yeah, I forgot to do that. The fatness of that font tricked me :) It’s definitely a good tip that you must always constrain caps when dealing with logos.

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  19. mike

    i noticed with mograph text when you make it editable it creates null inside of null, i wonder if this is any relation to the “adding a null above” scenario like in your tut Nick?

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  20. Gregory Matthews

    Dude,

    Been a fan for a long time. Great tutorials as always!

    Quick question, probably super basic for you, but is stumping me a little.

    Can you point me in the right direction on how to duplicate the effect used for this Creative Cow Masters Series Intro (the part where the Creative Cow logo falls to the floor and bounces a little before settling down):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye8J8a_QD-4

    Is this done in C4D, Realflow, After Effects, or what?

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks Nick.

    Gregory

    Reply

  25. AEON

    You’re now officially better than the video copilot for me as a 3d/motion blog. Tho’ you’re having different styles and provide different techniques you’re deconstruction politics is a very nice addition to the site. Tasty stuff.

    Reply

  26. Attila Czurko

    Hi Nick! Nice and very helpful tutorial:) I have one question though: if I switch to ‘explode segments and connect’ mode in the fracture object, the coloring method with c1-c2 only works for the first character. Do you have a solution? Many thanks, Attila from Hungary

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  27. Asela

    Hi Nick, awesome tutorial there. Waiting for the second part.
    just a suggestion here…. I love ur dynamics animation clip you did for the last christmas. (the falling candy animation). Could you show us how to do that? I mean the second part where the candy forms a christmas tree.
    thanks

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  28. Magic

    Can’t wait for part 2….aargh in fact I am waiting for my part one to render.

    Thanks Nick!!

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  29. Cai

    Hi Nick…. another sick tutorial.. as standard!

    I was just wondering if anyone else has had a little problem I’m having – When i try and drop a texture onto my text object, it doesn’t show in the render. I have to apply it to the fracture object, but then it doesn’t let me split it across C1, C2 etc.

    Any suggestions?

    Keep it up man…. I’m guna buy the light kit right now! lol

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  30. king

    I just started using cinema 4d a couple weeks ago and i was wondering how to import the bifurk text into c4d. Can someone please help me?

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    • Yoshi

      If on a mac, just double click on the font (not IN cinema) and hit install then start up/restart Cinema and u will see the font like Nick does.

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  31. Dave

    Wow, great tutorial. Thanks so much for taking the time and share the fx with us.

    Hey everyone, on my C4D R11.5 i don’t seem to need a NULL object. The Letters are rotating fine, however I cannot get them to explode. Either way, with or without NULL object. Does anyone has a source file here. I just cannot get path this obstacle.

    Dave

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    • Dave

      @King, i figured it out what we do wrong. You must click the FRACTURE OBJECT first and then go to the menu and select the MoGRAPH RANDOMIZER. If you don’t select the fracture object it won’t work.

      It seems first not like a big deal but somehow Cinema requires you to select the object you want to have randomized.

      Just follow then Nicks steps and add the Null Object. Worked now for me.

      Dave

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  32. Patrick de Bruin

    Cool tut again Nick! I have a question though, you “tricked” us in believing you added a floor to your project ;) But instead you chose to use a plain (like you always do), but what are the benefits of using a plain instead of a floor?

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    • The Gorilla

      The Gorilla

      A floor is infinite and can cause problems with lights and rendering. The plane allows me to do that gradient trick where we fake the lighting around the logo and then fall the edges off to black.

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    • Patrick de Bruin

      Cool, thanks! I’m still a bit of a noob in Cinema ;)

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    • Bran

      You can also set the plane to 1×1 segments… easy rendering :)

      if u r not deforming it

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  35. fractma

    Well thanks so much for a great tutorial Nick, I just discover your site a couple of weeks ago and all the content you publish is just amazing, keep the good work and I’m really looking forward to purchase your HDRI Light Kit Pro. Greetings form Mexico

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  37. MJ

    Great tutorial! .. I was wondering if you had a tip on how to get reflection falloff and still save render time?

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  38. Denny

    My Exclude object in the compositing tag of the floor plane is not working.
    There some special setting to flag?
    I’m using Cinema 4d v. 11.514

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    • AEON

      Recheck your link. It’s expired. You have to copy the vimeo.com/###### address.

      Reply

    • Jonny

      Im sorry Mohamed, But I believe Nick is incapable of re-creating such a beautiful effect like the one showed above. Sorry, but I just think is too much of an amateur to do so.

      (trying to inspire nick to prove me wrong by making a tutorial indeed post)

      lol

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  40. Marcus

    Hi Nick,

    Just found out about you a couple of days ago and already lovin your tuts! I’m new to C4D but been doing some work in 3DSM a few years back. And with your awe tuts C4D is working like a charm!

    But I am having a bit of a problem in this particular tut. And it’s the NullObject. The thing is that when I add the materials shown in the tut to the Text Object and then add the NullObject in between the Fracture Object and the Text Object, the materials jump off! And all the tasty colors goes gray/standard. And then when I take away the NullObject the materials are jumping back on, but then without all the nice fracturing going on.

    Do you know any way to make a workaround for this? I know that you said that the NullObject-fix is some kind of a bug in the software, but I figured that you’ve encountered this before.

    Any help from you would be more then appreciated!

    Thanks!

    /Marcus

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      • The Gorilla

        The Gorilla

        That is weird, Marcus. I have never seen that before. Let me ask around to try to find an answer. Anyone else have this problem?

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    • Marcus

      I think I tricked C4D. Instead of applying the materials directly on the Text Object, I applied it on the Fracture Object. And it seems to work!

      Thanks a bunch anyways!

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    • Khary

      i have the same problem im using R11.008 when you add the material to the fracture object it applies the aterial to the whole and the c1 and c2 selection trick dosent work

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    • John

      I have the same problem i can’t find a way to fix it yet hope someone find an answer.

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    • Matthew

      wow..
      I was about to ask the same thing ! I tried at r.10 and r.11, both having the same problem.
      After you parent the text to the null, the material goes .. poof… back to grey

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  43. Bryan D

    Nick, Thank you so much for your site. I discovered you a couple of months ago and now i check your site almost daily. Your instruction has helped me understand how to make better looking product. Thank you so much for all you do. I greatly appreciate it!!!
    God Bless

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  44. Bryan D

    I noticed you changed the spacing between the letters in this tutorial. “Kerning” it stinks that within Cinema you can only do global kerning. NIck when you go to the Cinema 4D convention. Could you ask them to include per letter kerning in the next version of Cinema.

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  45. Fausto G Pacheco

    Hi Nick, I have some troubles setting easy cam, i even checked you tutorial about it.

    I dis exactly as you show, but when I go and activate the easyCam_cam nothing happens the view goes to the center.

    I even downloaded the tools again, but the error persists.

    Can you help?

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    • Jake

      I got the same problem, I think it might be a C4D version thing. I’m using v11.5, maybe EASYCAM only works in earlier versions but I could be wrong

      Jake

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  46. Attila

    Hi Nick!
    Nice and very helpful tutorial
    But I have a problem:
    if I switch to ‘explode segments and connect’ mode in the fracture object, the coloring method with c1-c2 only works for the first character.

    Do you have a solution?
    Many thanks,

    Attila from Hungary

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  47. SWERC

    Great tutorial again.
    I have a problem with this one though. Every time I put null in between fracture and text object my text disappears. When I move it underneath it appears again but of course then the rotation animation doesn’t work…
    Anyone had this problem?

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    • PVC

      SWERC: I have the same problem. Have you sorted it out yet?

      Reply

    • Jeremy

      I’m having the same problem, when I place a null between Fracture and text then select fracture the text disappears…

      .

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    • Jeremy

      just discovered something, when I select the text layer then goto the text tool (text object) basic properties and turn “ON” >visible in editor. The text reappears then disappears on its own and I noticed the change I made turn “ON” >visible in editor. Automatically reverts back to “DEFAULT” as apposed to “ON”. the same thing is happening when I turn on >Visible in render… Any ideas?

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    • Andy Big

      Drop the text object under the null object. suggested by ron… it worked 4 me..cheers..

      Reply

  48. Jake

    LOVE this tute Nick, fantastic!
    There is something I would like to try. How can I change the text from the start to something else at the end. For example lets say camera posItion one is GRAYSCALE and as this breaks up and turns into GORILLA.
    How would I go about doing this?

    Cheers

    Jake

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  49. Brandon

    Does anyone know if this is possible to be done in Blender3D?

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    • The Gorilla

      The Gorilla

      I’m sure it’s possible. Just not as easy as using Mograph modules. You might have to keyframe it all by hand with Blender. Let me know what you come up with.

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  51. Matt

    Hey this might be a really stupid question but im fairly new to cinema 4d. I noticed when you render you have a lot more boxes rendering areas at the same time. I noticed I only have 2 going and so it takes me pretty long to render. I have a brand new 8gb imac so i figure i got some decent power in this thing to handle more. Is there a way I can change the amount thats being rendered at a time? Thanks and im loving the tutorials man.

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    • Patrick de Bruin

      No, the boxes represent the amount of cores your processor has, so you probably have an iMac with Core 2 Duo. I get 2 boxes on my MacBook Pro as well.

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    • Matt

      ohhh ok got it. thanks. yeah i do have a core 2 duo.i knew i shouldve just went for the quadcore lol. all good. thanks.

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    • Magic

      you can change the number of render boxes under preferences and then renderer. I have 2 cores on my crappy windows machine and i have 7 boxes (render threads)

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    • Matt

      that did it. thank you! this makes rendering much quicker!

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  52. Brett Perry

    Hi Nick,
    This was going to be my first Cinema 4D tutorial and I’m having a bit of trouble. Followed along with you upto the texturing with no problem. I did have to find the “null” object since I have version 10.5 and the layout’s a bit different. When I tried to apply my texture to the text object – nothing. This only happens when the text object is a child of the null. If I remove the null, the textures appear. Of course if I remove the null, I have the problem the null is meant to solve – explode segments doesn’t happen when the random effecter’s rotation parameter is manipulated. Let me know if you have any ideas about what might be going wrong. I even tried texturing my text object before the animation and got the same effect? It’s a great look and I appreciate the tutorial.

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    • Rick

      Hey, I have come up against the same issue, did you ever come across a solution?

      Reply

  53. JULIEN

    Salut Mr Gorilla

    Ici la France. C’est toujours un vrai plaisir de suivre tes exercices. BRAVO.
    THANKS, see you.

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  54. Shinobidesign

    hey, nick… i have the same weird issue as Brett Perry. my materials are disappearing the moment i put the null object in!? what´s that all about…? Thx in advance man…

    greetz sebastian

    btw: great tut anyway :)

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    • Shinobidesign

      I figured out how to solve the problem :)
      just align the materials a second time to the fracture object and everything is all good… cheers

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    • Rick

      Hey Shinobidesign,
      Having the same issue, just wondering if you could explain in more detail how you mean “align materials a second time to the fracture object”? Thanks!

      Reply

    • Shinobidesign

      hey rick… okay, here is the way I did it:
      just select the 3 materials (while your text object lays inside the null object), hold down the control key and drag the materials up to the fracture object – and you are done…
      seems to be some kind of issue with version 11.0 :(

      greetz

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    • Rick

      Nice work Shinobidesign figuring this out, much appreciated!

      Reply

  55. Andre

    hey nick great stuff!, btw do you know of any good tuts on soft body dynamics in c4d

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  56. Cody

    My render time seems to be taking longer than it should be, I took off the ambient occlusion effect and it still takes over 5 minutes to render out one frame. I’m running a Dell Precision with 4GB of RAM with intel duo core processor so, any idea what else it could be?

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  57. Ron

    Thanks Nick for this awesome tut. I just have one issue here. After throwing the null object i notice that the text disappear on screen which makes my render useless as i cannot see what’s happening. But if I try to remove the null object the text comes back just fine but again I can’t apply the explode segments.

    I’m stuck. Any idea? Thanks a million.

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    • Ron

      Ignore this. I found the culprit. It’s in the hierarchy. Now i’m rockin…

      Reply

    • Luke Wheldon

      Same with me, the text has vanished and wont come back – even if it is placed below the null.

      Can anyone help?

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    • Luke Wheldon

      Ignore me…

      Laziness got the better of me. I read on through the comments and found a solution that worked.

      Thanks!

      Awesome tutorial btw.

      Reply

  58. Saeed

    Hi Nick,
    You’re doing well man, but, recently I couldn’t watch ur tutorials anymore.
    I’ve searcheed for a solution on firefox team, I didn’t found any solution. I hope you have a solution for me. I do really appreciate your help.
    PS : your account on vimeo doesn’t work as well

    Good luck dudde
    Saeed

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  60. Parker

    You might already previously done this. but would you be willing to make your C4D layout available for download? I love it!

    Reply

  61. Paulo

    When I put the null object, my text desappear…only when I quit the null object I can see again, put the random effector dont’s work. :S

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    • overhere2

      I had the same problem before…make sure the text object goes in the null object (if that makes sense) so its not just sitting under it. I think you can just drag the text object onto the null object and it just be good to go.

      Reply

  63. overthere2

    K so i’m new to C4D, when i get to the animation part, I follow your instructions…i make a change then ctrl+click the circle so it becomes red and so one. When i play nothing happens. If i click on each frame none of the changes are there…its very fustrating. can anyone help me :(

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  64. BEN

    hiya nick, im a noob at cinema 4D and having problems.
    When I put the null object into the middle all the text disappears and will only return when I change the settings in fracture object back to straight.
    can you help? ben

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  65. stevie

    Hello Gorilla, hi community

    thanks for this great extra cool tutorial.
    You must be a god. I’ am a c4d-beginner and after sucessfully practicing your tut.
    I want to make a product box with the same material and lighting as in the
    spin-text (since several days ;-) ).

    My problem is this:

    http://werth.psycholutions.com/c4d_question.png

    As you see, I can’t get the right material display on the other element.
    I would expect some gradient angel settings as in some other 2d- graphic programms
    but I can not find something similar in c4d.

    How could I manage this?

    Should I create a single object for the product box and how could I do this?
    The spline actions are making me crazy. Often I bite in my hand while doing this ;-) .
    Combining a square and a circle seems to be a very critical mission for me.

    Or can I modifiy the gradient of the material directly so that such
    a box…

    http://werth.psycholutions.com/prototyp.png

    … (its skin) would look exactly like a letter of the spin text?

    Any help will save my life and if I get it, I will do the rest with your HDRI Kit :-) .

    c u stevie

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  66. George

    I tryed making this awile ago, i saw some guy with it as his avatar. this is great though :)

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  67. Roberto Gonzalez

    Hey, How’s it going well i was just wanted to ask you. How do you Save the Project from Cinema4D so that it can imported to After Effets? For some reason i’m having a bit of a problem with that..

    Thanx

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  68. Bart

    to everyone having problems with nullObject and materials, need to upgrade to 11.5 version.
    ive just fixed it;)

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  69. Zach

    Hey Nick,

    I have a question regarding the texturing for this tutorial. When I tried the “C1″ and “C2″mapping, I was not able to do both sides of the capped text. I think it has something to do with the null. not sure though. If you could write me back, I’d be psyched.

    Zach

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  70. Shawn B

    Not sure if you know about the “DropToFloor” plugin but I find myself using it constantly to reset objects positions to the floor, especially ones copied and pasted from other scenes positions. Its great, just select your object and go to plugins > drop to floor > BOOM, your object is on the floor at 0.

    http://www.kuroyumes-developmentzone.com/products_cinema_4d.html

    Thats the free plugin link. Another great tutorial, thanks Nick.

    ;)

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  71. Nausk

    Hey Nick, your tutorials got me interested in 3D again. (I’ve been working mainly in After Effects for a long time).
    Also a long time ago I remember of a maya shader that only received shadows (shadow matte or something like that, I can’t remember), I mean if I want to make a render with an infinite floor (plane) and then compose that in After Effects I’d like to have the shadow rendered with alpha only but without the plane affecting the alpha channel itself, that’s no borders, no color, no alpha from the plane itself, just the shadow.
    Any ideas about how to achieve this in C4D.
    many thanks

    Nausk!

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  75. Pedro Gabriel

    Nick

    great tuto man… im sure it will help a lot of noobs like me

    i have a question… when i put the c1 feature on the tag of the first material it enters only on the first letter of my sentence (i got another words, im tryin not with spin)

    how can i solve that… already thank you

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  77. hnawelhik

    I have juste litle problem whith nul object
    I can’t preview material on objet when texte are under Nul object, I duplicate the abjetc and i put texte on top but the rotaion dosen’t work well
    http://twitpic.com/26rpub

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  79. BWS

    hey i cant get the null object bit to work put the H to 24° still didn’t do anything

    Reply

    • Tudor

      Try making the object edible, by selecting the text layer and hitting “C” on your keyboard. Seems to bypass the whole null object junk once editable.

      Reply

  80. Gaz

    Hey Nick, absolutely loving your tutorials!
    I’m new to it all but learning a lot with these videos..
    One question, one of the faces of a letter doesn’t move at all with the others. Have you ever had this problem or heard of it and is there a solution?

    Regards

    Gaz

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    • Johan

      I had the same problem with one letter (O), It didnt move like the other letters in the animation, maybe cause it was the larger?!

      Reply

  84. tvandang

    i just downloaded the trial version of cinema 4d r12. i tried this tutorial but it does not have “random effector” under the mograph menu. is this a paid or free plugin? thanks!

    tvandang

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    • tvandang

      oops. i just tried to follow your tutorial and i didn’t see it. it is under the “Effector”. thanks!

      tvandang

      Reply

  85. Anna

    Hello Nick! Thanks for sharing thoose great tutorials. Just started to learn 4D Cinema a few days ago. Omg its amazing to get out a good result. I gonna learn more to expriment for myself. Perfect for my learning at the School Hyper Island in Sweden. And you know what. You and your tutorials disturbing my eighthour sleep. But hey i love it and can live whit it. Big thanks again for sharing..

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  86. keenan

    hey how do you have the fast render because at the moment i have one box rendering. you know when you render picture while still editing. someone help

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  87. Saturday

    Hi.
    Nice tutorial.
    I have two questions.

    The first.
    I don’t find the link for the plug in that you use for move camera. Where can i find it?

    The second.
    I have a problem with fonts. i try different fonts that i have on my Librofont library but many of this don’t work.
    There are any restrictions about the format of typography or I must have to install this on Librofont?

    Reply
    • The Gorilla

      The Gorilla

      The camera tools are included with the CSTools. It’s a free download and I have a ton of tutorials on how to use them. Highly recommended.

      Reply

  88. Kevin

    Hi great tut, im a total c4d novice, earlier in the tut where you add the null, when i do this and alter rotation the text dissapears, when i remove the null the text is visible again. what am i doing wrong?
    Thanks

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    • Andy Big

      i got the same issue.. text disappears afta addin da null object as described in da vid.. i m usin vista 32 bit.. could dis be an OS specific issue..??

      Reply

  92. Bob

    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

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    • The Raj

      hey bob , u can use ur cinema 4d any version first of all i can goto ur menu bar name object, null is there, and second is to goto ur sortcut ur object bar in cinema 4d,,,.
      third to u can any create object like cube object and u select ur cube object on object manjr and hold Alt key and press G button in ur keybord, then u can see ur null object to create and cube into this ,, u can delete ur cube object and ur null object is free for u..

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  93. Don d

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

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  95. Johan

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

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  96. S.J

    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)

    Reply

  97. Wiktors

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

    Reply

  98. Arturo Gil

    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!

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  99. Arturo Gil

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

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  100. Poska978

    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.

    Reply

  101. Weavermedia

    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?

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    • Weavermedia

      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!

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  103. iDied

    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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    • iDied

      OoOoOoOops :D got it now, I just turned the “Caps” on :P ….but hey, thank you for this great tut :)

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  107. Dzulhusne

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

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  108. David Jantsky

    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!

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  112. King

    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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  113. 1000 Errors

    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

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  114. Marius

    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!

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  115. Sean

    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

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  116. The Lids

    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

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  118. Kwame

    a big fun an would like to know if you can do tutorial about the fox sports promo. still waiting.
    you are a great motioneer

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  119. James

    Hey… Did a great tutorial, it’s very helpful to me. Thanks Dud..

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  120. Bjorn

    Great Tutorial… :) I’m rendering right now :D … its nice to learn C4D with these kind of full- explaination – tutorials :D ! sorry for my bad english..

    I’ll be waiting for more!

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  122. Reziko

    Andrew Kramer is King of After effects and you are king of cinema 4D … thank you a lot of … from georgia :)

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  124. Ryan

    I seem to be having trouble executing the fracture. The random effector is working though. I’m using C4D ver R13.016

    Any thoughts as to what the issue might be? Thanks!

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  125. santiago

    Hey gorila my name is Santiago and i am a c4d beginner, and i have my first problem, im trying to do some tutorials and I know I’m missing something, in the part of the tutorial where i have to put MoGraph Random Effectors this is not appear… Why?? i need a plugin or what?? Please help me.
    Thanks, and i want to say that your work it´s great!!!
    Im from argentina and my english is not good, sorry for that

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  126. Brandon Kocher

    Throwing the null object between the text and the Fracture Object makes everything disappear? Wtf?

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