Cinema 4D – Creating Animated Icicle Christmas Lights Tutorial

[Instructor] Rory Martin

In this tutorial, Rory Martin shares with us a bunch of useful techniques to create some animated icicle Christmas lights in Cinema 4D.

Topics covered include:

• Using a connector
• Adding rigid body tags
• Creating the icicle
• Using the Taper Deformer
• Using the Displacer Deformer
• Using the Plain Dffector
• Creating a looped keyframe animation
• A really easy method to create a straight spline
• Attaching cloned objects to a spline
• Using Spline Dynamics
• Attaching a dynamic spline to nulls
• Using the Shader Effector to offset animation times
• Making the wire from the spline
• Creating a background using RMF’s tex
• Setting up the lighting
• Another look at the final product

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