Create a Jelly-like Text Animation in Cinema 4D and After Effects

on Oct 26th 2010 with 113 comments
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Twice a month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Cgtuts+, and today we have an amazing C4D post by Alexander Alexandrov. This tutorial was first published in January 2010 and proved immensely popular. Let’s take a look…

Learn the tools necessary to create interesting and captivating motion graphics in this exciting look into modeling, rigging, animation, materials, lighting, rendering and compositing using Cinema 4D and After Effects.

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I am a graphic designer in Varna Bulgaria, and I completed design school in 2001. I started to make animations 4 years ago with adobe (early Macromedia) Flash. I have created a lot of web and print designs. In 2009 I began to do motion graphics using Cinema 4D & After Effects. My website is: www.amateurmedia.net  

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  • http://www.intech.mx Arts

    thanks Alexander!!!!, this is my example link: http://www.intech.mx

    wait for comments plz

    • http://www.intelika.ws Jan

      Hey great Job, Arts and tanks to Alexander, for that great Tut

  • Martin Baldzhiev

    Great Alexander!Bravo!

  • Loay Emad

    Great job
    Thanks

  • http://wallpapers-u.blogspot.com/ hd wallpapers

    beatifull thanks.

  • toby

    Same problem as the other people

    no jelly effect,

    and no help from the original poster, or should that be poser!

  • wootWoot

    Just to let everybody know, to make it work goto your character menu then Soft IK / Bones and press use mokka IK. otherwise you wont get the effect.

  • Jimmy

    I got the same problem here with the jelly effect :(

  • wahyu99

    i have the problem to,,,
    its no jelly effect,,can anyone help me Please,,!!!! n_n’

  • Susy

    Really cool guys !!

  • http://vistapacifico.net alvaaz

    what problems wahyu99 , alvaaz_@hotmail.com ;)

  • Jason

    I don’t have the mocca setup IK chain option! :(

    • Rudolf Alvarez

      I don`t have the mocca setuo IK chain option!, please tell me where to find it

  • Chad

    First time I’ve seen a tutorial that helped with rigging. Thanks!

  • Agent

    Isn’t this tutorial on the internet? I feel kind of cheated when something is reposted in a way.

  • Eric Sneider

    That is awesome, so dig it!

  • http://lorenavaldes.com Lore

    amazing :D
    I really love the bones technique;
    it is very useful

  • Splicage

    That is really stunning. Great tut!

    Thanks!!!

  • RaZzy

    If people would follow your tutorial exactly it should work fine.
    Great tutorial and thanks!

  • SGC

    Thanks you for the tutorial. Unlike everyone else I’m having no trouble with the jelly effect, however I am having trouble importing the files into After Effects. I try importing the .AEC file and After Effects CS3 tells me the “file cannot be imported – files of type “****” are not supported.

    Is there something I may have missed or done wrong? Any suggestions would REALLY be helpful at this point.

  • Liram

    I have a problem I do not see the “Soft IK / Bones “!
    What can you do? I have the R12 version

    • Oscar

      Download R11 version

  • Rones

    Excelent job… thank you for sharing…

  • Zeca

    Too expensive. … congratulations … that was beautiful effect …

  • http://www.andrei-klauss.ro Klauss
  • fEnA

    How can i made this in C4d R12.? I can´t find the menu to set the bones.. soft IK / Bone..

    otherwise…how can i manage to set the bones and continue with the tutorial?

    Waiting feedback..

    Nice tut.

    • Oscar

      Soft IK / Bones were eliminated when MAXON developed R12 version, so this features are no longer avaliable.

  • http://www.think360studio.com/ Nicki

    Great!! this is really useful

  • any

    any up dates for R12 yet ? maybe u should state which version its for

  • Rhino

    Great tutorial and easy to follow.

    I have to try it again since mine didn’t work. I have no idea what went wrong, but when I clicked Main and Play and tried to whip it back and forth it was just rigid. Clearly my mistake somewhere, but I followed the steps perfectly.

    • Rhino

      Cancel that, I didn’t see the post above by WooWoo:

      Just to let everybody know, to make it work goto your character menu then Soft IK / Bones and press use mokka IK. otherwise you wont get the effect.

      Once you click Use Mocca IK, then you see the jelly effect. Pretty sure he didn’t mention that.

  • linmac

    I’ve never used Cinema 4D before now and I wanted to thank you, Alexander, for all of the fantastic tutorials. Very well done…even a beginner like myself was able to follow along and learn quite a lot.

    I also had trouble getting the setting of the bones/mocca IK things right, but finally figured it out: If you undock the characters menu like he does in the video it changes it a bit. In the sub menu of the very top option (bone) you will see “use MOCCA IK” — click that. Now back on the main menu the very top option will have changed from bone to use mocca ik. Again, go in the submenu, and now you can choose bone and it will be correct.
    I never would have saw that if I didn’t undock the character menu, so if you are having trouble try undocking.

  • Keejay

    hey guyz.. R12 suckss.. Use R11.5 cause its has Mocca IK tag haha :).. anyway I have problems in part 1 9.27 :(!! Wheres the Attributes? icant find it :(. reply asap thank you..

    Nice tutorial!! love u man!

  • Keejay

    lol I found it .. Im such an asshole.. :)

  • femi

    i am from skopje beginer in c4d its good to see how you work in this area

  • Eugene

    Thx Alex for tutorial

    Here is my result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXd6vTPj7Y

  • C4D Creative

    it sucks in r12 :(

  • loalman

    “That is,” he said in Russian))

  • Mum-Ra

    Can’t “add bone” in R13… No MOCCA IK under the Character menu at all–somebody please help.

  • Jose

    Did anyone find a way to do this in R12 ??
    If so, how?

    Thanks

  • Edson Jr.

    Very good!

  • maxime

    Can’t “add bone” in R13… No MOCCA IK under the Character menu at all–somebody please help.

  • Adam

    How would you do this in R13, I can’t even find how to make bones, only joints

  • Alperen

    I have Cinema 4D R12 What shoul I do for bones?

    • filipe

      did you figure it out? i trying to search on the web but im getting confuse…

  • Brian

    Alexspender

  • filipe

    hey guys, I just figure it out.. hope you guys already did it but if not check it out:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dniWVu55PEc

    this guy doesn´t explain much.. but shows how to build bones in r12/13…

    >>> first you create a Joint and duplicate it as a children of the first and then you pick any arrow of the second e move a little bit and you will see that your bone is there… by doing this way you create the bone in a exactly size.

    peace and love…

    • filipe

      sorry for my english mistakes

      e = and…

      and I know how to use “a” and “an”… peace and love again…

      • Martin

        Love Ya <3 <3 <3 <3

    • Peter

      but how can u conect the bones with the logo? dont get it :X

  • http://www.freddygotfingered.com Fred

    worthless tutorial – R12 R13 doesn’t use bones – someone needs to update this tut. Otherwise, it’s completely worthless.

    • http://www.freddygotfingered.com Fred

      OK… THIS tutorial will get you UNSTUCK if using a newer version of C4D. It covers a few great topics in a very basic, easy to understand tut.

      Basically, the answer as it relates to the Jelly tut, is to use IK Spline. It’s TEN TIMES EASIER and FASTER. Watch this video and it will all make perfect sense.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPiIk_PnDnQ

  • http://www.kolisi.net Karton Koli

    Thanks for tutorial,photoshop and c4d <3

  • tuvshineee

    I can’t even find how to make bones. Can’t “add bone” in R12… No MOCCA IK under the Character menu. Please tell me where to find it. pls pls…

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardcabrera/ Richard

    about: Amateurmedia Create a Jelly-like Text Animation in Cinema 4D and After Effects.

    hey alex… using this tutorial, I saw that in version r13 has no mocca ik bone, is there another way to do this in r13?
    thank you

  • kris

    i cant get it to open in After effects after i save it all out of cinema 4d… its saving as a “aec” file… but after effects only opens “aep” file…. HELP?

  • hoenheim hoenheim

    I wish you didn’t skip steps. When you merge and brought the BACK into c4d, how did you get it to be all one spline line, rather than all the letters offset overlapping each other?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1846326981 Christopher Anyone

    Can you translate for C4D R12 the change from bones to joints has me at a stand still on this project.

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