Creating A Stylish 3D Countdown Animation In Cinema 4D

Creating A Stylish 3D Countdown Animation In Cinema 4D

on Apr 9th 2012 with 26 comments
Tutorial Details

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

In this tutorial we’re going to create a smooth, stylish countdown animation. You can use words, letters, logos or whatever you want to make this type of animation. As you can see it’s easy to set up and looks very stylish and attractive.

NOTE: For the Global Illumination lighting I used the “HDRI Studio Light Kit Pro” from GreyScale Gorilla, but it’s optional. If you don’t have it, you can just simply load any HDRI you want into the color channel of a shader and put it on the sky object and it’s going to work the same way.

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Stefan Surmabojov is Stefoto on Videohive
 
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I'm a 23 year old motion graphics designer from Bulgaria. I have 4 years of professional experience behind my back. Most of my time I spend working for a small TV company. In my spare time I work as a freelancer and create video tutorials related to After Effects. You can find more of my work at videohive.net/user/Stefoto.  

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  • http://akashfx.blogspot.com Akash

    Superb, I just needed that.

    Thank you so much. You’re Awesome.

    • http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/maxon-cinema-4d/creating-a-stylish-3d-coundown-animation-in-cinema-4d/?replytocom=53369#respond The Punisher

      We must be honest, this tutorial has a good visual result,
      but as originality, I’m sorry for Stefan, but it is a set of techniques already taken from the site of Nick Champell GreyscaleGorilla. The makeup of the rounded bevel with the Connect object is already achieved with a great tutorial (October 2011) in this link you verify:
      http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2011/10/how-to-make-bubbly-rounded-type-in-cinema-4d/
      But actually this technique is based on a AmateurMedia project.
      So is the real author of this is “Alexander Alexandrov”.

      • Stefoto

        Man the idea of the tutorial is to show how to make clean and stylish countdown, not to show how to round letters using connect/fracture object ;) Yes this techniques are show in other tutorials and I used them just to make the type more reflective and give it more life other than that your argument is invalid ;)

      • Spellchecker

        What does this mean :) “Yes this techniques are show in other”. I think you need an education first before posting comments.

      • Ryan Forshaw

        I think this tutorial is great, I can’t wait to start it! I think it’s very insulting that you said this guy is copied the tutorial from somewhere the punisher, this guy has invested a lot of work in writing this tutorial. like the author said this tutorial is about creating a 3-D animation countdown and not about modelling the elements.Great to the author, I’m looking forward to seeing more of your tutorials!

      • sunnyside

        Insulting or not buddy this is a old tutorial. The fact of the matter is nothing is NEW HERE. He should have invested more of his time been creative.

      • GSG

        I agree punisher, just too much repetition of old tutorials, nothing is new anymore. Those that think its new just shows the depth of there knowledge.

  • Fernando

    Rarely ever reply on this site, but I just had to for this one.

    Superb!

  • Classicgamer

    Brilliant will try this out tonight! A big big thanks for this :)

  • http://www.be.net/therustedpixel pauly

    Nice tutorial! Nice choice of type.

    Any chance of tutorials other than motion graphics? I know its C4D’s strong point but its impossible to find Body Paint, Rigging or UV Mapping tutorials.

    Please help!

  • http://digitalvandal.us Tim Williams

    Love the tutorial, very clean and the connect object is a great trick that everyone should know.

    Only thing I want to add to someone who doesnt want to set up multiple renders is that the text field is key frameable so at the 50th frame in just key frame the new text and then set the heading roation for those next 50 framesa and you could even copy past your keyframes to create a loop for the entire countdown and all you have to do is key frame the text changing. So you can set the ENTIRE countdown up(minus any logos) with 1 motext and 1 render. You can even key frame the height so when the title changes to numbers the letters can jump from 200 to 400.

    Anyways great tut

  • Luis

    In 3ds max please!!!

  • http://www.behance.net/mohdumer Umer Zafar

    i was just watching this countdown piece in your videohive collection and wondering if you will do a tutorial… prayers answered… thanks.

  • alex

    Hi Stefoto

    thanx for your tut ;-) I like the final render! Can you tell me the fonts you used, please!

    thanx alex

  • sukru

    SUperb ! please more tutorials on C4D.

  • javy

    that’s col

  • http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/maxon-cinema-4d/creating-a-stylish-3d-coundown-animation-in-cinema-4d/ muslim

    hi!
    thanks man

  • Swen

    As a Premium member i’d like to see some kind of linking between the tutorials and the source files? Why just not put both links on the same page?

  • Desmond

    pretty deep man, awesome

  • Velin

    Hey nice tut :)
    You sound Bulgarian are u?

  • http://designfishmedia.com Geir B Nystad

    Very good, love it!

  • filipe

    in my opinion is was a good tut but nothing really new was shown…

    i thought it would show exactly how to achieve the main effect, in this case the transition, not a bunch of techniques to fancy a text and simply rotate it.

    as i didn´t pay for it, thanx to give it away stefan.

  • http://realita.org Martin

    great resoult, thanks
    but can you please share .c4d source file? please…

  • Loai

    Hello stefan

    That was really fantastic tutorial , I have question for you May i know how did you join all the countdown render and make it in one movie can you please let know know i will be thankful to you

    Thanks

  • Yoan

    Българин ли си :)

  • Minhaz Mahmood

    Can you please reupload the tutorial video? Because the file seems missing. PLEASE.