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Squash and stretch to add character
- [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. Squash and stretch is one of the most fun animation fundamentals to animate. In this video, I'm gonna show you how you can use the squash and stretch deformer to inject some character to your objects in Cinema 4D. So, here I have my scene, with my little mole guy, and I already have some squash and stretch animated via this squash and stretch deformer. But let's just break this down. I'll delete it and we can create one right from the get go. So, you can find the squash and stretch deformer in our deformers menu. And you can find it right here. Now, to affect the object you want, to add squash and stretch to, you either have to make it a child or place it in the same level of the hierarchy as all of your objects. So, you can see that my mole guy is basically just a capsule, some capsules for eyes, and then, a capsule for a snout and nose. So…
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