Advanced Character Animation
Character animators and riggers alike need easy-to-use and reliable tools to help them create life-like characters. CINEMA 4D Studio contains reliable and easy-to-use tools that make professional character animation much easier.
The New Character Object
The Character object allows you to easily build a rig for any character, based on expertly crafted preset templates for bipeds, quadrupeds, fish and more. Automatic mirroring allows you to build and adjust the rig symmetrically. Once you’ve adjusted the rig to your character, simply drag the mesh into the Character object to automatically weight and bind the mesh to the rig. After completing this simple process, you’ll have easy access to controllers in the Character object, and your character is ready to come to life.
Walk Cycles with CMotion
Your characters will really strut their stuff with CMotion, a parametric walk system. With just a few clicks you can apply a preset walk to your Character object rig. Apply a Spline curve to virtually any parameter to define the motion. Characters can walk the line or follow the path of a Spline object automatically, staying aligned to the direction of travel and even interacting with the underlying surface. Custom step objects provide even further control so that every footstep is a step in the right direction.
Character Component
The Character Component can be used by technical directors to define objects or hierarchies of a rig as components. Those components then can be packed into a template and be used by artists to easily create their objects using the Character object. The technical director can use all the power of CINEMA 4D's tools, including Python scripts, to define those components.
You don't do character animations? Then use the Character Component to build templates for road systems, pipeline creators, etc. Use your creativity to decide what to build with the powerful tool.
Pose Morph
Pose Morph allows the mixing of various data. You can morph parameters, user data, UVs or Vertex Maps. Pose Morph is a powerful tool to make a rigger's life easier and unleash the creativity of character animators.
Visual Selector
The Visual Selector lets you select your animation controllers with ease - a character rig's many controllers can aligned to a character's image set in the background. The rig's elements can be arranged with corresponding symbols by dragging and dropping them from the Object Manager. If an object is subsequently selected in the Visual Selector, it will be selected in the scene automatically.
Animator's life made easy
CINEMA 4D Studio comes with a lot of other advanced character animation tools to make the process of bringing a character to life easier. A Quaternion tag, Cappucino allows to record mouse movements as position data, Create Cluster tool helps to create groups of points, a new weight manager, dynamic IK, and so much more.