Cinema 4D Tutorial - Intro to the Mograph Time Effector

In this tutorial you’ll get a little intro to the Time Effector, Voronoi Fracture and how you can use it to help automate animation inside Cinema 4D! Download project files: gumroad.com/l/nKyTi
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Intro to Mograph Time Effector Tutorial Topics Include:
• Learn some Time Effector basics
• Combining the Time Effector with other Effectors to get variations of animation applied to objects
• Introduction to the R18 Voronoi Fracture object & learning how it fractures up objects
• Learning about Falloff Clamp functions
• How to create a nice procedural marble texture
• Utilizing the Random Effector for more organic, interesting animation
If you have any questions about the Time Effector or Voronoi Fracture, be sure to post it in the comments section! If you create anything using this technique, be sure to share it with me on Twitter or in the Comments! Thanks for watching!
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[@begummm11]

I like how you explain everything detailed and make people actually learn things instead of saying "click here do this %50 okay we are done" like most of the channels.. Thank you very much

[@eyedesyn]

thank you so much for the kind comment! i really try hard to make sure the tutorials are helpful, easy to follow, and give you a better understanding of the software so I'm happy to help! :)

[@birjuraikwar]

A Perfect tut for one of the Most Under-rated Effector. your Way of explaining is one of the best techniques i've seen so far.. Thank you Mentor.!!!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks Birju! Appreciate the kind words and always good to see you in the comments!

[@davidoutchi]

Your tutorials are very instructive and valuable. As an aspiring motion designer and graphic designer, I want to thank you for sharing these videos with us.

[@eyedesyn]

Hey David! Thanks for your kind comment, really happy when I get comments like these as I love helping people learn and get into this field. Good luck and keep on learning!

[@danielterrazas]

I never fully understood the Time effector untill you said "time expression", now it totally makes sense to me. Thanks for the enlightenment!

[@eyedesyn]

Awesome! It works almost exactly like it, glad I could help you understand! :)

[@user-yx9xn2ub5f]

You know the tutorial is amazing when even the small tips open up so many possibilities, seriously, that 2D version looks insane to me, definitely using it!

[@eyedesyn]

Awesome comment, I try to throw little helpful nuggets of info in there in hopes that they inspire someone to try something new! Glad you enjoyed it! :)

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Haha, sometimes my psychic powers are on point. Hope you find this tutorial helpful! Hope my next tutorial mind reading trick works! :)

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[@sicfxmusic]

Because your world is already simulated and baked. Now you're just playing it!

[@themisterjordan]

Same here. Was wishing there was an easy way to rewind a simulation - then BAM! This tutorial on the time effector. :D

[@somethinginthewater331]

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[@fiveshorts]

Wonderful tutorial. Thank you. And all just with two key frames. In the spirit of procedural fun, the whole thing becomes even more organic with the addition of a motion camera rig set to have a subtle “handheld” movement. Again, no key frames. Thanks again.

[@eyedesyn]

Motion cam rig is a good suggestion! Love procedural stuff! Cheers and thanks for watching!

[@subhoghatak]

Finally found something similar to time*(number) in Adobe AE ,that too in C4D thanks again to Eyedesyn for the tutorial. also explaining the Voronoi. Maybe more Modelling tutorial on how to keep the mesh clean and simple use less subdivisions and keep poly count low

[@eyedesyn]

Time* is a great expression and one of the most used expressions I use in AE! Thanks for watching!

[@movie4u833]

I am brand new to DAW and soft soft - these tutorials are excellent an very helpful to get soone like up and running. Appreciate

[@SurBeltor]

Amazing tutorial as always!. I would be no where without your guidance! I simply love it. I do all my stuff for fun at the moment but may implement some of this into my print company to expand on what I do now for my clients.

[@eyedesyn]

That's so awesome to hear, Matt! Always great to hear people getting into 3D!

[@SurBeltor]

I did have a question I missed. I really like your set up as there are function i like to use. I have the option to choose some favorite layouts from GSG in my version 15. Question Can you post a tutorial on how you set up your key menu items for example Back on a previous tutorial I believe the lemon walking one you refereed to having your align to spline axis button in one of your tool bars. i am having trouble putting the things I like in the view field. Particularly I like your set up so a quick rundown on your take on setting up C4D may go a long way with your viewers. Cheers Matt (AkA Beltor alliance rogue of Azeroth)

[@flamefeather01]

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[@eyedesyn]

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[@eyedesyn]

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Another awesome tutorial. Thank you.

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So good as usual!!! Thank you, eyedesyn!

[@eyedesyn]

Thank you for watching, Saida! Really appreciate the support!

[@AAmar-zm3er]

Thanks EJ, as usual very useful and a great tutorial.

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks Ahmed! Always good to see you in the comments!

[@m4rtinius]

Thank you so much! Really well explained and very helpful!

[@eyedesyn]

Cheers, Michael! Happy to help! Thanks for watching!

[@allensua1]

Very clear tut that does real help to C4D beginner (thumbs up).

[@eyedesyn]

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[@mr.jMmidi]

Now have to catch up on every tutorial!!!

[@mohammedsuwaidi]

This is awesome EJ, always enjoy watching your videos :D

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching, Mohammed!

[@VidadeMotion]

Well done! Really easy to understand! Greetings from Brazil!

[@robertgutierrez5614]

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[@criasmotion6261]

Eu estava na busca destes efeitos e como fazer , seu tutorial está muito bom parabéns! obrigado.

[@eyedesyn]

Thank you very much for the nice comment and appreciate you watching!

[@InFamousProductions]

Hey man, I loooove your tut's and products, I have a few. At about 15:00 when you are showing to use the plain effector, I used the the time effector scale and lowered it to -.31 (not full -1 like you did) and it works killer! I just wanted to point out that it works (but I learned a lot about the plain effector thanks) . Keep up the good work!

[@InFamousProductions]

Hey I just finished the tut, it's genius! and my above statement was only applicable to 90 frames. as soon as I set it to 200, the whole thing went out the window. I'm going to post the result in a few..

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks James! Really appreciate the kind comment and super happy to hear that you found this video useful! Glad you're able to use it in your own work! :)

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Thanks for the help.

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Kick ass tutorial. Also, your beard is lookin' pretty wild, dude!

[@eyedesyn]

Hahaha, yeah it's lookin pretty "mountain man"-ish right now. Need to groom it before the next tutorial!

[@bogscave]

Amazing tutorials man! Good job!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for the kind words! Appreciate your viewing!

[@rthur.]

This is great EJ i really enjoyed it

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks Arthur! Glad you enjoyed it and really appreciate your continued views! :)

[@hcl8836]

Really good tutorial!!!

[@nokeomiga]

Really nice. Thanks for share it!

[@eyedesyn]

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[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching, Taiwo! Much appreciated!

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Thank you so much, my guy!

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[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching, Louis!

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[@eyedesyn]

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[@vladshinkin]

Man, thank a lot for this tutorial!

[@eyedesyn]

Very welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@dmitrycheck5609]

Thanks a lot for the tutorial.I think you should do more stuff like that, I mean fracturing objects

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching, Ethan and for sure I plan on doing more fracturing stuff in the future!

[@ProfessorRGB]

Nice, now I have something to do at work tonight.

[@eyedesyn]

Woo hoo! Hope you enjoy it, Nate!

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[@eyedesyn]

Thank you!

[@biuti.channel]

Is there anyway to use Rigid Body / Collision, to prevent the chunks from clashing with each other?

[@LokeshJb7]

Brilliant tutorial EJ! Appreciate it. Especially for breaking down the whole process using simple cubes and moving on to the actual render. Been using Cinema4D for the past 4 months and I've learnt a lot from you! Thank you for that! :) Wish I could have like an internship with you. Haha

[@eyedesyn]

That's awesome to hear! How is your journey into the world of C4D so far? What's been some of the hardest concepts for you in your transition to learning C4D?

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eyedesyn Cinema4D just surprises me every time. There's always something new to learn, and the possibilities are endless. Being an Architect /Product designer, I'm used to doing 3D models. But the concept of animating using dynamics and getting the right render settings has been quite hard on c4D. But I'm getting there thanks to people like you :D

[@eyedesyn]

There's a ton to learn, C4D is a very deep app! Render settings meaning multipasses or Physical render options or...?

[@LokeshJb7]

eyedesyn indeed! :) And physical render settings, especially when it involves material bumps, displacer tag or jiggle deformer. In few complex scenes I have the Raycast accelerator calculating for hours or crashes c4D after a few minutes.

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[@eyedesyn]

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[@Yungnicki]

Tutorial of how to make a animation in Cinema 4d and how i can integrate in after effects with shadows etc

[@zst1475]

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Thank you EJ.!

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching!

[@slavikleibovich2288]

Thanks a lot , one q please ... where i can download hdri plugin for mac?

[@multimatumc]

Very nice tutorial!!! Im using R17 now, but was wondering with the voronoi fracture, could I also use rigid body dynamics on the torus or sphere?

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks! Indeed you can simply add a Rigid Body Dynamics tag on the Voronoi Fracture just as you would a Cloner or Fracture object! It's super easy!

[@jeffreybarruga257]

Thank you EJ!

[@eyedesyn]

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Thank you!

[@jeanletangi3699]

Ivan S. If you make a colour a playlist track,you can auto na the clip and auto na the setuper by pressing Ctrl + L. But I didn't want to

[@sadoand]

pretty sure I did it upside down, cuz when I drag my time/plane across the entire obj. goes phoff (like it gets erased by my movement) still looks cool though, but no idea what I'm doing wrong xD

[@chielin6406]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@eyedesyn]

THANKS FOR WATCHING! :)

[@sammedia3d]

What a great Tutorial! I just got an idea of 2 elements colliding and then fracture that way. Should i use this method or can i also use a collider tag on both elements? What is better?

[@eyedesyn]

dynamics tags on each with the trigger set to "on collision!"

[@lokiro123]

Please help! Can you tell me how can I create moving particles just like this that comes from the middle of my logo and then the moving particles create two new forms (not text) (chess pieces) different color.

[@Drake45100]

Holy shit this is the perfect tutorial for my "Earth gets ripped apart by a blackhole" Scene but I only have R17 and not R18 haha.

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[@eyedesyn]

Thanks so much! You can find my classes on School of Motion! :)

[@tillse]

Thank you for this fantastic tutorial. There's one question I have concerning Voronoi fracture: which setting is there to avoid the fractured elements to intersect with each other. I'm asking because this is the only thing which makes it still look unrealistic and spoil the whole effect. Thanks in advance for your help!

[@eyedesyn]

Throwing on a push apart effector should work!

[@au5music]

This is awesome! But is there a way to prevent the fractured objects from intersecting?

[@eyedesyn]

Push Apart effector would do the trick with a falloff!

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You deserve an oscar

[@guilhermemello3487]

I keep coming back to those basics videos because I STILL don't know how to properly use the software. I'm gonna cry

[@elisemarcusofficial]

Great tutorial! I'm trying to apply this to another object, but my computer can't handle it. Do you have an idea how you can apply this on an object you downloaded?

[@eyedesyn]

if you have a dense mesh, it'll cause some slowdowns. What kind of computer do you have?

[@shavemymind]

standing ovation!

[@eyedesyn]

Cheers, sir!

[@Yatidesigns]

So cool. Anyway you can add collision to the tiny pieces so they don't pass-through each other?

[@eyedesyn]

For sure! Or could use Push Apart Effector that is in R18!

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Nice job ;)

[@its_maalik]

What are your thoughts on Cinema 4d vs MAYA?..Maya looks so F ing complicated for this type of work...its crazy what you can do with cinema 4d after watching just one youtube video. Mind blowing actually!

[@NicolasSeijas]

Thank you for this awesome tutorial! I don't know if you realize that you didn't copy the noise texture for the inner selection jajajaja. Cheers from Argentina!

[@eyedesyn]

Whoopsie! :) Thanks for watching!

[@cghem]

Awesome Again!

[@eyedesyn]

Happy you found it AWESOME! :) Thanks for watching!

[@mooseroochy]

In R20 Random effector on Time effector won't work, but you can put a Shader Field on the Time effector as fall off....

[@eyedesyn]

thanks for the tip!

[@wetwindisland6652]

Thank you!

[@PriscillaGomez]

sadly r23 also doesn't work this way

[@jenskruger975]

Many thanks. I can follow you explanation very good. Great stuff AAAAND my shocking Marbel looks like your's. It's often, that my result doesn't look like the tutorial :D

[@eyedesyn]

Nice! Glad you could follow along and get something looking good! Thanks for watching!

[@Yvesyew]

Hi, Can anybody help me? I am trying to animate a stack of coins explode in a small area / perimeter. But when i try to apply explode FX on the stack of coins i duplicated. it seems that the coins shape would be distorted （thickness changed） and the when i try to adjust the setting of the explosion, it just doesnt change anything. What is the problem? thanks!

[@nghile7219]

Very helpful tks

[@eyedesyn]

You bet, thanks for watching!

[@hawkitoo]

I have version R19 and my textures are sliding once they start moving. Is there a solution to this?

[@darkarps]

Thanks so much for your amazing tutorials EJ - I am having a problem using Voronoi fracture on an extrusion - the resulting geometry after the fracture is hollow instead of closed... and I cant figure where I'm going wrong.

[@eyedesyn]

There's an optimize and close holes checkbox in the settings, be sure that's checked on!

[@darkarps]

eyedesyn that actually made things worse but I found the reason in the end was something to do with how the extrusion object was creating its geometry, something to do with enabling regular grid perhaps? Seemed like a bug.

[@dorcaMusseb]

@@darkarps Found a solution. On Extrude Objects under Caps -> Create Single Object

[@harun3Ddigitalartist]

thank you...

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks for watching!

[@mariannaorsho]

Thank yooooou!

[@eyedesyn]

You're welcome!

[@temmysevgi]

Thanks

[@elliotfu8381]

A little late... I can't figure out a way to stop the materials being front projected? Assigning the space to object reveals the cracks in the shape, 2D UV flattens the noise texture, I'm just not sure how to get the material to stick to the surface of the objects.

[@apollogt5506]

instead of have the pieces flying off, can you have them shattered and scattered instead? thanks.

[@bilbotbaggins1536]

I have a problem. Everything seems to work fine, except the Textures seem to start animating themselves as soon as the Part they are on starts moving. I am using UVW mapping tho.. Any advice? The "animation" is kind of some noisey movement/flow of the texture on both inside and outside faces.

[@beavonmoranga9048]

What if you want to use this effect with 3d text?