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Quick Tip: C4D Cappucino – Mocap For Your Mouse

Quick Tip: C4D Cappucino – Mocap For Your Mouse

on Feb 3rd 2011 with 11 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Software: Maxon Cinema 4D
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 30 Minutes

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 8 of 9 in the Best of Cinema4D – Part 2 Session
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This week’s quick tip is brought to us by regular Cgtuts+ author Aleksey Voznesenski. Today Aleksey will show us how to use ‘Cappucino’, a simple mocap tool built into Cinema 4D that captures your mouse movements and records the positional data. Aleksey will then show us how to clean up this mocap data using the Key Reducer, a handy tool for smoothing out your animations and removing unnecessary key frames. Let’s have a look!

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Aleksey Voznesenski is a 3D specialist experienced in many areas of the 3D world. Mainly focused on animation, he has experience in motion graphics, modeling, rigging, render setup, lighting, camera work and art direction. Working as a contractor for many companies, Aleksey provides his expertise to get projects done on time and to spec. His main package of choice is Cinema4D, but Aleksey has experience in all of the industry standard packages like 3ds Max, Maya and XSI. His contact details can be found at ace5studios.com. Also be sure to visit ace5education.com for even more tutorials from Aleksey!  

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  • brij nandan

    nice tut!
    keep it up!
    I got it from facebook :)

  • Cyril Kotecký

    So awesome! I might not be using the mouse capture but the key reducer and snapshots will be hugely useful.
    Thanks!

    • http://ace5education.com aleksey
      Author

      Hey,

      Yeah, the snapshot feature is awesome in so many cases, especially when cleaning up your own keyframes. I wish it was more automated like in softimage though.

  • http://shawnroelofsen.com Shawn

    Cappucino in R12 is located under Character->Manager->Cappucino

    • http://ace5education.com Aleksey
      Author

      thanks man, these new menu systems are doing my head in =) too many sub-menu’s

    • Buttpirate

      Hey man, you know where it is on R13? It’s moved again!

  • Gregg

    The Cappucino function is in Caracter/Manager/Cappucino.. enjoy

  • http://13strokes.com Shibi Kannan

    Awesome, I am already liking Cappucino. “Keyframing on Steroids” sounds like a nice catch phrase.

  • http://synthetictone-media.com Synthetic Tone

    Nice… will have to try Cappucino more. Thanks for sharing.

  • Chris

    I can’t seem to get it to work with my 3d mouse. It would be AMAZING to record the fluid motion of my space navigator to keys.

  • http://google.com YeahMan

    Haha someone smokes a bong 5.30, badass