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Retime animations with Time Tracks

Retime animations with Time Tracks

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Retime animations with Time Tracks

- [EJ] Welcome to Motion Graphics Weekly, where you up your mo-graph knowledge, one week at a time. I'm EJ Hassenfratz, let's get our learn on. If you learned how to animate in After Effects first, before jumping into Cinema 4D, I'm sure the first big difference you realized was the lack of a speed graph in Cinema 4D. While Cinema 4D doesn't have a speed graph per se, they do have what is called a time track, that is the closest thing to an AE speed graph and works almost exactly like time remapping inside of After Effects. In this week's video, we'll learn about the Cinema 4D time track and how it can vastly improve your animation workflow. So here's an animation of a busy little bee doing a little flip. This took a lot of hand keyframing and actually took quite a while to get the animation to look just right. Now, say this was for a client, and the client says, perfect, done. Yeah, that never happens, the client always has some kind of revision, right? So let's pretend the client is…

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