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Concentric Circles Using Cloners
I’ve been trying to create looping concentric circles in Cinema but am struggling. I want the circles to emanate out from a point and move forward in Z space while scaling up. When they get to a certain scale stop and pile on top of one another cascading down to the point it started. I Animated a single ring emanating from the center and then dropped this animated ring into a cloner. I then used the step effector and offset time but its not producing the look I want. Any ideas of where Im going wrong?
The look Im going for is at 1:48 in the below video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6JcybgDFo10719_concentriccircles.c4d.zip
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this is closer to what I think I’m seeing in that clip but I don’t have a grip on the nice slowing of the first circles and how to stop the deeper ones but I haven’t had that much time to test.
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Dude thats way more close than I ever got. Thanks so much. I didnt even think of building like that. I was getting kind of close using the StepEffector to apply weight to the tube clones and then using a plain effector to expand them out. I made two tubes one big one small and then blended them with a cloner. However, same problem – the animation is not as smooth or organic and the expansion is not always in the correct order. The animation in the video was built using Maya. Im just surprised its so hard to replicate that radio wave effect so popular in after effects, in c4d. I thought something like this would be plain and simple, I thought wrong.
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Here’s my attempt at it, just using splines for the circles: 10724_concentricrings.c4d.zip
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Oh sweet, this is another good idea for approaching this. I’ve made these silly rings 5 or 6 diff ways now, I think the closest to matching the vid was that awesome idea Brian mentioned with expanding a cylinder within a plane and having that cloned out and effected by three diff step effectors. I just have to figure out how to stop the animation before it booles itself out. Thanks so much guys for the great advice!!
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Hi Brian. I think the link is not working anymore. Can u please share it again? Thanks
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