Which is why we dont see many awesome and complex short films made with them. So, to sum it up, C4D is awesome for character animation, but it has an unfortunate performance issue. then, try to move some of those, delete some of those, etc. Select all the controllers, add a keyframe to all of its settings (position, rotation) then move to the next frame, and do the same.ĭo this until you have more or less 10 frames with fully keyframed controllers.

If you have a complex character, do the following test: More than that, things becomes extremely slow and impossible to work with. If you notice in that short film, there are 2 characters max per scene, sometimes 3 with certain tricks, but C4D seems to have this weird limit of 2 characters. So, C4D is awesome for character animation, but it has a bottleneck when it comes to performance. Blender doesnt have that natively, only with the help with addons.

Also it has dynamic bones, which helps a follow up animation that follows physics. Non-Standard Human Characters have either the same iClone bone structure or have been characterized for iClone Motion bone, and are able to use iClone. In the Modify panel, go to Edit tab > Avatar section. Apply a CC character from the avatar library and make sure the character is selected. it has amazing rigging tools, it doesnt have bendy bones like Blender, but it has Spline IK that helps a lot. Besides using Character Creator for modifying the body proportion for CC characters, iClone (version 7.1 or above) is also able to apply uniform scale. So, the problem with C4D is not the character animation itself.Ĭ4D is more than capable of character animation. Oh, I didnt know this short film ! Thanks for sharing it with me

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