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Three ways to animate splines

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Three ways to animate splines

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- [Instructor] Welcome to another Cinema 4D Weekly. Now if you ever wanted to animate a spline you might have gotten a little stumped. You probably tried to select these spline points and key frame them with probably no success. So in this video I'm going to show you not one, not two, but three ways you can easily animate spines for any kind of use case. In this case we're going to animate like a little mouth on this little character here. All right, so here is my Cinema 4D scene. You can see that I built the lips of that character by just using a sweep object, a circle, and a spline for the lips. You just turn on the sweep object and just go to my point mode, select a point down here, and you can animate the mouth here, all right. So let's go ahead and just turn off that sweep object so we can just focus on our spline and the points here. And again, typically to animate a spline point you might have tried to, you know, set a…

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