Creating Animated Graphs in CINEMA 4D
In this series of tutorials, we will be learning how to create and animate graphs in CINEMA 4D. Software required: Illustrator CC 17.1.0, CINEMA 4D R15.
What you'll learn
In this series of tutorials, we will be learning how to create and animate graphs in CINEMA 4D. We will first start with graphs that have been laid out in Illustrator and then import those to CINEMA 4D. We'll learn a lot of different ways to speed up the process while creating a line, pie, and bar graph. Then we'll use Mograph Cloners and Effectors to quickly duplicate and animate objects. We also get creative with the tabs in some of our primitive objects, like the slice tab for cylinders. You'll also learn lots of ways to re-purpose work that you have already created if you are making a series of graphs. This training is for you if you want to learn how to make graphs in CINEMA 4D that look professional and can seamlessly blend into your next motion graphics project. Software required: Illustrator CC 17.1.0, CINEMA 4D R15.
Table of contents
- Preparing the Illustrator Files 9m
- Importing and Using the Illustrator Paths as Splines 9m
- Extruding the Text and Splitting into Multiple Projects 8m
- Creating a Sweep Animation for the Line Graph 8m
- Preparing the Text for Animation 7m
- Creating a Swing Text Animation 7m
- Creating a Pop Text Animation 5m
- Texturing the Graph 7m
- Creating an Animated Camera Rig 8m
- Using the Visibility Property of the Display Tag 7m
- Fine-tuning the Camera Animation 4m
- Creating the Pieces of a Pie Graph 9m
- Animating a Cylinder with the Slice Tab 5m
- Adding a Scale Animation for the Pie Pieces 7m
- Using a Boole to Cut Our Shapes in the Pie 5m
- Borrowing from Our Other Text Animations 6m
- Adding Display Tags and Keying the Sweep 5m
- Animating the Camera for the Pie Graph 5m
- Adding Textures 4m
- Converting Our Bar Graph Coin to a 3D Shape 9m
- Using a Mograph Cloner to Create a Stack of Coins 8m
- Adding Further Animation to the Stack of Coins 3m
- Repurposing the Original Coin Stack 7m
- Using an Effector to Add Spin to the Coins 7m
- Creating the Legend 5m
- Animating the Camera and Smoothing the F-curves 9m
- Retiming Text Reveals 5m
- Changing the Render Settings 9m
- Checking Our Render 8m
- Rendering the Graphs 6m
About the author
Laura is a passionate visual effects and motion graphics author at Pluralsight. Ever since her first exposure to After Effects in college, Laura has had an eternal drive to learn more about motion graphics, and teach others what she has discovered. Laura began working at Digital-Tutors (now a Pluralsight company) as a motion graphics artist, creating visually-appealing advertisements and informative art for the site. Throughout her time at Digital-Tutors, Laura contributed greatly to both the ... more