CINEMA 4D Compendium - The Animation

It offers over 950 pages of concentrated information on animation with CINEMA 4D. Written for CINEMA 4D versions from Release 16 onwards, this work will quickly become an indispensable companion as a textbook for beginners for self-study, as accompanying reading for courses and training or as reference documentation for advanced users.

The following topics are covered, among others:

• Animation basics (keyframe animation and timeline)
• Animation tags and XPresso (path, camera and spline alignment, vibration, XPresso)
• Thinking Particles (Thinking Particles-Nodes, TP Generator, TP Initiator, TP State, TP Standard, TP Dynamics and TP Helper incl. working example "Butterfly Swarm".
• Dynamics (Dynamics preset, general and cache settings)
• MoGraph (cloning tools, clone object, effectors, break object, MoInstance object, MoText object, tracer object, MoSpline object, MoExtrude object, PolyFX object, MoGraph and XPresso)
• Character animation (joint object, inverse kinematics, constraint tag, rig creation, character commands, muscle object, points cache, character construction kit and special character tags)