From the course: Cinema 4D: Principles of Motion Graphics
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Applying deformers - CINEMA 4D Tutorial
From the course: Cinema 4D: Principles of Motion Graphics
Applying deformers
- [Instructor] Deformers are a helpful tool when modeling in Cinema 4D, but you can also use them when it comes to animation. In this video we're going to animate the snowboard into the scene. I want it to bend as it flies up from the bottom of my view port. So the first thing I need to do is actually apply the deformer to my snowboard. So I'm going to go to the Objects Manager here in the upper-right corner of the interface and I'll start by actually naming my snowboard. So double-click on the word extrude and we can call that snowboard. There we go. And to apply the deformer I'll go right here to my deformer section in the shelf and if I click and hold you can see there are all the different deformers we can apply. I just want to apply the bend deformer, so I'll choose that. Now notice it's automatically added at the origin in the center of my view port. So I want this to actually be sized to match my snowboard. To…
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