• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Animation of Lego-Stones building a castle

  Posted by Markus Müller on February 27, 2013 at 3:01 pm

  Dear COW-users,
  I built up a Lego castle inside of cinema 4D with lots of modeled Lego-Stones (perhaps 500-800 Stones). It looks beautiful, but now I want to set up a little animation, let the stones fall down from the sky and build the castle from bottom to top, stone by stone.
  Unfortunately I can’t set a keyframe for every Stone, because it would take to much time and isn’t that controllable.
  So I thougt: We not try the PlugIn “Tranform”, that allows easy transformations. But like “Shatter”, this plug in destroys my Poly-Stones.

  Does anyone has an idea, how to get this animation done?

  Thanks a lot and have a nice day,

  Markus

  Craig Whitaker replied 13 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Craig Whitaker

  March 1, 2013 at 2:31 am

  You could try placing them all under a fracture object to make them mographable. Then above, setup a matrix object with a similar amount of objects. Using an inheritance effector, you could then animate them from the matrix offscreen to the final (in this case initial) resting place.

  Craig Whitaker
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