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CINEMA 4D R11 Quickstart – Non-Linear Animation
This creates a soft transition. Activate the Motion System (main menu: Edit / Use Motion System) to see how
the transition looks.
Play the animation and you will see that the animation, MQ U+D, now gradually transitions into the MQ F+B
animation. Select the Undo option to undo the transition you just created. We will now turn our attention to
the second method for mixing Motion Clips.
If a transition already exists is denoted by small red circles at the left next to the percentage numbers. These
circles indicate that Keyframes were recorded for the transition from one Clip to the next. Undo all previous
actions until these red circles are gone. This way you can be sure no keys exist for this transition for our next
step – laying them on top of each other.
Place the cursor over the center Motion Clip. Press the Shift button on your keyboard and drag this Clip up into
the first Clip’s layer. Do the same with the Clip at the right.
Play the animation. All three Clips will now transition smoothly. The advantage of the first mixing method,
however, is that each Clip lies on its own layer and can be turned on or off separately (click on the orange and
black film strip symbol in the Layer Manager). The Motion Layer system offers innumerable possibilities for
creating transition between animation data. The fact that individual motion sources can be saved as presets you
can create your own animation library that you can later use for other characters or objects. Play around with
the system a little, including the Motion System tag’s parameters to get to know the system in more detail.
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