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The Concept combines all types of colorful 80s movies.
Including, but not limited to:
• Superman II: His ice fortress (in technicolor)
• Zod, Ursa, and Non in the epic outerspace glass prison effect
• Close Encounters: The UFO sound to light sequence
• Backdrops from 80s high school year book photos
Screen grab of the “sound effector” sequence in Cinema 4D
Screen grab of the imported sound generated C4D sequence into After Effects and using Sound Keys to map the effects to the frequencies of the beat.
In Cinema 4D, creating quick Bend and Shatter effects is easy with the MoGraph Module. This example uses the 3D Stroke CSTools and animates around a Helix Spline.
Here is the simple set up in the Objects Tab. The main thing to remember is to place the Deformers inside of the Spline and keep the Objects and Effectors outside.
I’m usually not a fan of 3D type, but by using Cinema 4D MoGraph Effectors, you can create some eye catching 3D Typography. This experiment uses the Step Effector and the Shader Effector to turn LED lights into the phrase “Sound Wave”. I used Ableton Live to conjure up a quick audio loop.
Cinema 4D 11.5 has a slick render setting called Ambient Occlusion in the Advanced Render. It uses the environment to simulate smooth shadow casting on realistic translucent surfaces. The magical part of this setting is that it is able to block (occlude) the ambient light of other surfaces. The only set back is the long render time.
In CINEMA 4D Release 11 the Global Illumination provides a more accurate representation of scene lighting by taking into account light which bounces between objects. Here are my quick tests to show the lush render it provides:
1. render output window with global illumination
2. finished output with global illumination
3. photoshop touch ups
I went through the process of taking an .obj 3D file and opening it up into Photoshop CS4 and then using 3D layers in After Effects to Animate it. No more flat image sequences! Full on 3D! Great update Adobe!
