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In this NAB 2018 C4D Live Rewind, Motion Designer EJ Hassenfratz shares the story of how he transitioned from working as 2D graphics artist at a local news station to a 3D character artist working with some of the biggest brands around. At the same time, he shares a lot of great tips and tricks useful to beginning and advanced users alike. He starts off with an introduction to the Sketch and Toon module which allows you to create images that look like 2D illustrations. He then goes into myriad uses for the Jiggle Deformer for automatic squishy animation. He follows this up with a great looking but simple technique for breaking apart a logo with the Voronoi Fracture object and Dynamics. He closes out the presentation by showing how simple deformers can be used to create great looking and reusable character animations.

00:00 Introduction
06:42 Reel
08:37 Joystick Project
08:49 Sketch and Toon Renderer
09:57 Adjusting Shading Settings
11:22 Adding Grain
12:26 Animation Tips
13:07 Time Remapping with Time Tracks
17:58 Secondary Animation with the Jiggle Deformer
20:35 Using the Jiggle Deformer to create Springy Type
23:43 Better Silhouettes with Falloffs
24:43 Realtime Liquid Effects
27:50 Dynamics for Logo Animation
28:17 Breaking a Logo into Pieces with Voronoi Fracture
28:52 Adding Dynamics Tags
30:23 Art-Directing Dynamics with the Trigger Options
31:41 Invisible Dynamics Triggers with the Ghost Collider Option
33:09 Other-Worldly Results with Forces
36:47 Simple Character Animation
39:46 Squash and Stretch Deformer
41:17 Reusing Deformer Animation for Different Characters
42:01 Rigging
42:38 Adding Joints / Bones
44:26 Adding Automatic Secondary Animation with IK Dynamics