Cinema 4D tutorial - Advanced splines made easy

Hey guys Sean Dove here and today Ive got a quick tip I want to share that I think you’ll like
Working with splines is one of my favourite things to do inside cinema 4D
I grew up playing with photoshop using the pen tool to create paths so splines just made sense to me - they’re great for typography or to create a path for an object to follow
However a detailed spline can be time consuming to set up. What I mean when I say this is when you import a spline to Cinema, lets say a text path you’ve set up in photoshop or illustrator, it comes in flat - but what I want to create is this nice interweaving within the spine and ultimately a heap of depth.
I say this can be a time consuming because if you have a path with 50 or even 100 points, manually placing them can be extremely tedious
- Ive done my fair share of manual spline point placement so I though I had to find a way to speed up the process
Im going to share a quick tip for how to create this nice interweaving and depth within your spline, without needing to move even one point
- to demonstrate this technique Im going to use a spline inspired by a single line art piece from french creative duo DFT. The work these guys are doing is stunning, ill pop a link down below to their work go check them out, seriously impressive!
Also shoutout to Vincent Montel and the Spewmen for sharing their bands music video with me where they used one of my tutorials to create these great clips - they really pushed it further and the end result looks great! Thanks guys!
With that said Lets jump into todays tip
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[@bmeto]

Great tutorial! Didn’t realise just how much you could tweak splines in C4D 👍🏻

[@53FX]

Nice tip! It will come in handy for sure!

[@stupidusernameize]

Really helpful and interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[@kudre7]

Mate I can’t thank you enough, you save a lot time

[@BryTunesMusic]

pure genius!

[@juv2rusamogyatt704]

hello Sean, felicitation, you are the best. thanks for the tutorial. it s great and clear . thanks

[@emilevdb3259]

thanks man helped alot, really was in a pickle and you came and made me less stupid.

[@michaelaforeman3393]

Just a tip for everyone, when you adjust the offset to 'build / trace' the line art, the line begins vibrating violently and in the final render looks horrible. I couldn't find a way to slow this down, so if you want to just have the effect of it building itself from start to end, just use the standard start / end on the sweep nurbs to get that effect, without the constant blobbing or whatever

[@rbsn3d]

Yeah, Sean is not indicating it in the video although you clearly see this unattractive wobbling along the spline. Thanks that you point your finger at this issue.

[@anotherone8620]

Awesome!

[@GuiEsp]

Thanks!

[@marzouqalbalawi5303]

thanks a lot

[@adeelkhan216]

Very very cool! thank you so much

[@ArgoBeats]

cool man, I think you can do the same with MoSpline without need to add the Matrix?

[@osoanasteciado]

i love you!

[@capdponts8710]

Thankssssss

[@abacus450]

Hi Sean, I love your videos very much. I imagine a lot of your viewers wants to use C4D more in their workflow besides AE. However I'm having some difficulties with practical functions such as text presets, using Shutterstock vector images in my work and overview the project etc. Would you create a video responds to such problems? Best,

[@MylonasFilms]

Hey Sean, how do you download the splines? Or did you just screen shot it ?

[@vincentmontel9932]

Hi Sean, and thanks a lot for the kind words! I'll put the link to the video with the bands account.

[@MisterWestbam]

Awesome as always :) Got a link for the Futurama Bender video at the start?

[@SeanDove]

Cheers mate - yeah, check it out kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHe7dY2KorZknaM

[@SPEWMEN]

Mister Westbam The whole 1st minute, as well as the 2 other corridor scenes, are based on Sean's camera mapping tutorial and idea. We just added characters (live footage of the band, Bender's version of Michael Jackson's Thriller...), lights and smoke effects, or objects, to make the thing more alive.

[@anchorball-kenkelleher]

Can't seem to get the random effector working

[@Attems777]

What do you use to render your projects

[@jonathanisraeljohnson9021]

where can i get that kind of cap

[@dimensionalilusions4520]

i wonder why spline turns invisible when i make certain shapes?

[@d1st3f]

like ;D

[@secretsunofficial]

"sploin"

[@jamskof]

mospline

[@jesseperez5185]

my spines are all over the place

[@joeloliveira5042]

you like Grayscalle Gorrila.

[@AdictiveGaming]

I really like your tutorials, but if you wouldnt stay so Long on so on a Point you already did, talked About and so on - it would be way better. I mean the Videos could be 10 min quicker

[@Stiegosaurus]

effect is meh