Stop Motion Text with Cinema 4D

Cinema 4D Tutorial at Creative COW

Neal Barenblat
Mographshire.com
Memphis Tennessee USA

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In this video tutorial, Neal shows how to get started making a stop-motion text effect using Cinema 4D's MoGraph module. He'll be taking a pretty good look at MoSplines and the Vibrate tag to create a text treatment that resembles shooting the same few frames over and over again, and repeating them.

This tutorial is also available as a podcast.

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Re: Stop Motion Text with Cinema 4D
by Andy Weak

Great tutorial Neal! I believe I found out about you through John Dickenson on Twitter. Check out my take on the tutorial.

http://vimeo.com/23728273

Thanks,
andy

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Re: Stop Motion Text with Cinema 4D
by Anders Hattne

Still going through this tutorial, but the switch from vertex to even made me have to comment!! Looks awesome!

Thanks for the tutorial!

http://www.ardillamedia.com

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Re: Stop Motion Text with Cinema 4D
by Jim Jones

Awesome Job Neal,
Loved the flow of this tutorial!
And the "End Product" is awesome!

FYI: Nice audio, I see you spent the extra buck for audio, and it shows in this tutorial.

I look forward to many more tuts from you.

Cheers!

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Re: Stop Motion Text with Cinema 4D
by Craig Zuckerman

Neal, great job-although I have used C4D for a while now, I always learn something new-you're an excellent teacher, maybe you will have more tuts in the future?-Best of luck, CZ

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Re: Stop Motion Text with Cinema 4D
by Travis Roop

Hey there Neal,
First off GREAT TUTORIAL! I'm trying to wrap my brain around how to use C4D and you're Jigglin' me in the right direction! Thanks for the this and hopefully more tutorials to come in the future.

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