{"id":3395,"date":"2024-10-23T23:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T04:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2024-10-23T23:50:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T04:50:02","slug":"some-fun-with-c4d-and-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2024\/10\/some-fun-with-c4d-and-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Fun With C4D and Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent project allowed me to dive a little more into C4D – and stretch out my skillset with Fields. I had some collateral from a contractor for a new campaign, and the movements weren’t very dynamic (they lacked the bounce I love in certain motions). When I got the AE source files, I realized they used plug-ins that we didn’t have (ugh). <\/p>\n

As a result, I needed to recreate the scenes with the movement I wanted. I could have done this in After Effects – although it would have been a bit tedious due to the repeating elements. I decided to go into C4D and was happy with the end results:<\/p>\n

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And here’s a second sequence, with the same theme:<\/p>\n

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The scene’s general setup was rather simple. I took two arrows and put them into a Cloner Object. I then added a Plain Effector and animated some Fields to get the movement (either a Spherical or Linear, depending on the file). It took a little time to get things going how I wanted, and the rest was simply tweaking things to lock it in. <\/p>\n

There was one curveball where the Standard Renderer was acting funky. The fix was switching to the Physical Renderer. This was another reminder of how I could stand to get more knowledge around the rendering capabilities of C4D as I don’t know much about the differences between the various renderers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent project allowed me to dive a little more into C4D – and stretch out my skillset with Fields. I had some collateral from a contractor for a new campaign, and the movements weren’t very dynamic (they lacked the bounce I love in certain motions). When I got the AE source files, I realized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,133],"class_list":["post-3395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-after-effects","tag-cinema-4d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3399,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions\/3399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}