Animation - MAXON CINEMA 4D R16 Studio: A Tutorial Approach - page 283

Chapter 8
Animation
Learning Objectives
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:
• Create key animation
• Create path animation
• Work with the Timeline panel
INTRODUCTION
Animation is an act of giving life to a 3D object or character. To animate an object, you need
to define different positions, rotations, and scaling of an object at different frames in the time
slider. On playing an animation, all frames are displayed one after the other in quick suc-
cession to create an illusion of movement. In this chapter, you will learn about the playback
control buttons available in the Animation toolbar. You will also learn to use the Timeline
panel.
TUTORIALS
Before you start the tutorials of this chapter, you need to download the
c08_cinema4d_r16_tut.zip file from www.cadcim.com . The path of the file is as follows:
Textbooks > Animation and Visual Effects > MAXON CINEMA 4D > MAXON CINEMA 4D
R16 Studio: A Tutorial Approach
Next, you need to browse to \Documents\c4dr16 and create a new folder in it with the name
c08 . Next, extract the contents of the zip file in this folder.
Tutorial 1
In this tutorial, you will create an animated logo, refer to Figure 8-1 . (Expected time: 25
min)