My project this week was to was to use Cinema 4D to make text and then animate it. This was just about the most frustrating and rewarding project I have done in this class. I have never set foot in Cinema 4D and I was told to make a word and animate it. Most open ended project ever. Loved that my instructor left it open ended. It gives me a release from my more structured studio and allows me to create what I want.
My word for the project was rebel. I was motivated to use rebel because as a graphic design student at Iowa State I feel very limited to the instillations we are allowed to do without getting in trouble. It’s kind of like an appropriate middle finger to the man without actually using the middle finger. I feel like the college should be allowing us to be creative and fueling our fire. So I guess, in a way, I am rebelling (sorta).
Making the word was the easiest part of the assignment. I decided to add barbed wire and on the third try of watching the YouTube tutorial, I finally got it to look all right. I definitely had a little dance party when I figured it out. I then wrapped the second E in REBEL in barbed wire. The font I chose was to represent prison suits as well. It adds to the “rebel” rule breaking feeling. Since there are two E’s in rebel, I wanted to show them in two different ways which leads me to my animation.
For my animation, I wanted to rotate the second E so it was backward. This was the most frustrating part. I had to look on YouTube and Lynda to figure out if I could even animate using the software. When I figured out how, it was pretty easy from there. My video below is pretty simple. Just 6 seconds of handwork and late nights. Maybe I’ll use it in a campaign or another project.I always find the most frustrating projects the most rewarding because I feel like I actual learn something.
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