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Animating a Cinema4D Model in After Effects 7.0
Hi im an intermediate After Effects user and recently got interested in Cinema 4D, hearing about its superb interfacing capabilities with AE. Im planning to animate a logo i created in Illustrator in a manner similar to what you usually see on sports tv (those ESPN motion graphics are so cool!). How do i go about animating a c4d model in AE(7.0)? Or would it be wiser to animate in C4D first instead?(which I will have to learn first but have little time to do so).I’m more familiar with animating in AE but im not sure how it would perform with a render-intensive 3D model.
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You would have to animate the object in Cinema and import the animation. Cinema can export it’s camera, lights, and 3D planes to AE, but not full-3D objects.
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Thanks Adam! But what you said means I can’t use the 3D object in AE? I was under the impression it would work akin to Zaxwerks Invigorator, where you could animate a full 3D object created by Zaxwerks then render it afterwards. Cinema 4D does not work this way?
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No, Zaxworks has its own 3D engine inside of AE, but not Cinema. OTOH, Zaxworks is a far less capable 3D app.
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