Cinema 4D Tutorial - Essential Futuristic HUD Element Design & Animation Tips

Learn essential tips to design and animate futuristic HUD elements in Cinema 4D!
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What You'll Learn in This Video:
In this Cinema 4D tutorial, EJ Hassenfratz shows how you can procedurally create futuristic HUD elements that allow for keyframeless animation and quick iteration workflows to create unique HUD elements with a click of a button. This tutorial is jam packed full of helpful workflow tips and is perfect for viewers who are just learning or experienced in using the Mogragh Module.
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Hey thanks Sebastian for the awesomely kind comment! Happy to help you learn and appreciate your support! :)

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Apart from having a nice SciFi HUD element, which worthwhile on its own, I have just realized these techniques with the shader/delayer/time effectors open an entirely new universe in C4D. There is one more bottle of wine on the list that you can pick up when you are around :) Thank you indeed for these tutorials.

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[@7_of_1]

Have to say one of the best and most useful tutorials I've seen. Like your stuff on GSG too. Thanks!

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[@eyedesyn]

Thanks Guai! Glad this channel in one of your favs! Thanks for the support!

[@AAmar-zm3er]

Thanks EJ, that's brilliant as usual.

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks Ahmed! Great to see you in the comments!

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[@imbatrossthescrub2096]

18:23 - 20:43 This doesn't work anymore because Cinema 4D R20 replaced everything described here with the new field system. The way I got this to work is by following every rule up to this point and then setting up a Radial Field in the Plain effector. I set the radial field to 360 degrees and then set a key frame at frame 30 for it to transition to 0 degrees, then also changed "End Transition" to go from 0-30 degrees in the first three frames. This will get the tick marks to scale with the rotation before it even starts. This even still works with the circle scaling part he talked about earlier. That seemed to work for me, but there's probably plenty of other ways to do it now. If you found a way, reply to this comment with it, because I'm still learning all this, too.

[@key.frame_]

this aged very well, great tutorial EJ!

[@pnvgordinho]

The shader with the circle is pretty cool. Thank you.

[@eyedesyn]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching, Pedro!

[@rthur.]

Wow EJ that is awesome.... it saves much times then trying it in after effects.... I am forever grateful for sharing

[@eyedesyn]

Arthur, what's up bud! Glad you enjoyed this one, totally easier than doing in AE!

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[@eyedesyn]

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[@daviddmotion]

Thank you sooo much EJ! Been waiting for this for a while! :D

[@eyedesyn]

You're very welcome! Glad you're enjoying the tuts!

[@luke_nukem]

Awesome tut man. Jam packed with info! Keep em coming.

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks very much! Happy you found it useful, thanks for watching!

[@Stories_behind_the_eye]

Yes! Finally! That good sci-fi

[@eyedesyn]

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[@Sanghyoyee]

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Thanks for watching and thanks for all youre awesome comments, Mugabi!

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this is amazing, i have been searching for something like this for quite a while now to no avail. thanks

[@eyedesyn]

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[@charliedancey]

That was a good one! Perfect pacing (which is a rare thing in tutorials), super-educational workflow, and great teeth :-) Thanks a bunch, I loved it and learnt a lot.

[@eyedesyn]

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[@eyedesyn]

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[@MasterBluspark]

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[@visualvidstudio]

great love to get more tutorials on HUD ELEMENTS in cinema4d and also how to do more news type of glass animations in octane

[@eyedesyn]

Sweet, I'll keep that in mind for future tutorials! Thanks for the comment!

[@refaelov219]

Hey EJ. great tutorial!

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I love your teachings. you are helping us so much. I want to be cinema 4d specialist i need more to learn. thanks very much for helping us

[@eyedesyn]

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excelent my friend, how to do for import all in 1 project?

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I loved. Creative ideia and simple execution. Tks!

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[@muhammadmujtahid7722]

Your tutorials are great...i have a question.. Will you make animated movie style character modeling, rigging and animation tutorials??? Waiting for your reply :)

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks sir! Im planning on doing more character tutorials in the future so stay tuned!

[@muhammadmujtahid7722]

eyedesyn I will be waiting for that :)

[@juniorromero1092]

thank you!

[@ahmedshakib3883]

Lovely tutorial mate.I have seen some of your old tutorials and they are a gem , the toon shaders ,have you ever tried to create a studio Ghibli render?.

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks Ahmed, really appreciate the kind comments! I have not tried to do that style but thats definitely a good style for me to experiment with!

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[@owenalcocer134]

SUPER GREAT VIDEO. Sorry to ask this, but how you put those lines on the interface view that helps to knows where the render area goes. I mean the two rectangles like a spline in specular view..

[@eyedesyn]

interactive render region? Alt/option + R

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[@siddiqhamedAwad]

hello E J how to make laser beam cutting a letter or name from thick iron plate

[@Serapha6]

How would you motion track this like if you press a button on your wrist and then this pops up

[@kayubik7039]

спасибо за уроки!

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The Cell Noise is Missingno from Pokemon! :o

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Thank you sir!

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[@DirtyDenaDubStep]

for some reason when i do the shader animation on the circle spline around 29:00 it really ramps up my cpu and gets hella slow... any guess to why that specific function tis pushing 4D so hard?

[@eyedesyn]

do you have Render Instances turned on in the Cloner?

[@DirtyDenaDubStep]

that might have been it. Thank you so much really great tutorial about effectors and routing them! Need to learn more about shaders on to the next one =P

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hey dude. your tutorial is so very very nice!. can make me and my friends angry! hahahaha!

[@eyedesyn]

Don't be angry! :) Thanks for the kind words and for watching!

[@futurexu3522]

like this very cool

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks!!

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you are my new god :D

[@eyedesyn]

Ehh, I'll take the term "teacher" instead :) Thanks for watching!

[@nicktaylor9227]

Great tutorial! Just one problem, when I add the Time Effector to the tick marks it rotates them individually and not a whole! 🤪 Any thoughts? 🙏

[@MrSambhav200]

EJ has done it again ! Fucking dope and sexy tutorial . Thank you sir !

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks man!! Glad you dug this one!

[@hikmatullahatif7251]

Please make one tuts about, designing broadcast news intro.

[@posebukse]

Just discovered your channel, awesome! Do you know, when using a circle spline, shader effector to distort and the cloner - is it possible to have each clone have a different random seed on the noise? It would be great on any spline to create tons of detail.

[@hieranchauhan5882]

Im so impatient butttt..... When is the next Octane tutorial from David?

[@eyedesyn]

Haha, right now David is prepping for his Siggraph presentation at the end of the month so early August I would say!

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eyedesyn thanks EJ - hope your keeping well

[@c4dseries373]

nice

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks!

[@mick384561]

Love the neon light effect with the halo around It. I'd love to use that effect for a character I wan't to use for a bvh motion capture animation file Is that possible. It's ok I'm just pondering on purchasing cinema 4D studio R18. :)

[@eyedesyn]

Thats just a post Glow effect, you could do the same thing by adding a Glow in After Effects and skipping C4D altogether!

[@mick384561]

Cheers. :)

[@eyedesyn]

Very welcome!

[@olgapichugina62]

Yes it needs to be done every day. I also have fear, when I open the program I'm in a panic-what and where to start? But I'll still learn this program, because I like Cinema 4D

[@eyedesyn]

Learning takes time! Keep it up!

[@olgapichugina62]

We must start small with the lakes themselves!

[@ItzNava]

Hii!! all your tuts are amazing

[@ItzNava]

NEVERMIND! I already found out what it was. ANYWAYS thank you for doing these amazing tuts :D

[@eyedesyn]

Haha awesome, glad you figured it out! Thanks very much for watching!

[@SamRadDude]

I have seen a few HUD design Tuts. What is the industry application of a HUD?

[@eyedesyn]

You see this in a lot of movies that try to visually portray the future of interactive design and VR. It's techie eye candy :)

[@SamRadDude]

AWESOME! YOUR AWESOME EJ!

[@zevvra_dm]

lo rompiste hermano que onda

[@kamaalkhlafgadaan2633]

please explain tutorial about broadcast news

[@eyedesyn]

Heres a good one for you! www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/Motion-Graphics-Techniques-Creating-Sports-Bumper/161474-2.html

[@pavelskor1165]

Thanks a bunch for the tutorial! Quick question my hour tick doesn't align properly to the circle when using the spline shader, any idea why

[@eyedesyn]

Wouldnt be sure!

[@watermelonchon]

Hi! The hair material doesn't show the colour in the renderview. How do I fix this? Thank you so much and happy new year!

[@eyedesyn]

WHich renderer are you using?

[@watermelonchon]

@@eyedesyn Redshift

[@andres.e.montilla9627]

FIRST: Nice video :) and im new on your channel and i want to know how i can customise the interface of the cinema like that

[@eyedesyn]

Hey thanks for checking out the channel! So the custom interface can be downloaded on my website: eyedesyn.com/resources

[@EMVF]

genial! 😄

[@eyedesyn]

Thanks man!

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cool Pug

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[@oldboy79]

I feel like it is easier to make HUD Displays in C4D than in AE.

[@eyedesyn]

Definitely way easier to animate, that's for sure! The Mograph Module with its Cloner Object, and effectors are so powerful and a collection of features that After Effects just doesn't have nor do I see a viable solution for AE anytime soon.

[@pnvgordinho]

You have Frank the Pug over at your place. :)

[@eyedesyn]

Haha yeah he decided to appear in one of my tutorials finally...that's my "Design Assistant" Gus.

[@kristincobos]

Im new to c4d and thought Id throw myself in the fire and try this out. in the video it looks like each new element is created in a brand new project. so i was able to do this and had all the elements looking like the ones inthe tutorial. at 31:42 he talks about applying the work flow back to the previous disc. and around 31:49 he has all of the elements together.this is where i missed something. i didnt know how to get all the separate elements together. I tried to open a new project and merge them but i couldnt get all the elements in the new project.the ones that fit didnt turn out like the tutorial. does anyone have any beginner tips? thanks

[@eyedesyn]

You can copy and paste elements between project files by selecting the objects you want to copy, CMD + C and going into your other project and hitting CMD + P.

[@kelvinzer0614]

Thank you for this tutorial !-- I have a question that has been bugging me for hours after this tutorial : When we did the "DeathStar" circle, we were able to place a Delay effector INSIDE the circle folder*. I've tried to do the same to the middle disks (I.E. the ones in the Cloner object). Even if I was able to apply a different animated Shader to each, I'm incapable to insert a working Delay effector into them. The Delay will only work if it is on the first level of the Cloner, above* all disks instances. What am I doing wrong? Is there an explanation to this? -- Thank you so much ! :)

[@eyedesyn]

Hey man! I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to do, but you'd need to make sure the Delay effector is at the bottom of the Effector stack so its applied last in the execution stack

[@djodjogri]

very cool but the delay effectors are not working when rendering. Any idea?

[@eyedesyn]

delay works only when you render from frame 0, try using a mograph cache tag to cache the animation first!