Mograph Techniques: Creating a Flat Vector Look using Cinema 4D and After Effects

Learn how to create animated 2D elements in 3 dimensions, using CINEMA 4D and After Effects.

Creating flat vector-based artwork that moves along the X, Y, and Z planes is a fun and beautiful way to give an animated infographic style and energy. You can mimic this 2D look with a 3D animation-like feel using the power of CINEMA 4D and After Effects combined. Artist Eran Stern shows mograph artists how to achieve this simple style of rendering using a series of project-based examples: a sophisticated particle reaction, a complex DNA chain sequence, a button, and a coin animation.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files
• Overview of the project

1. Spheres Brain Magnetism

• Create sphere clones
• Attractor simulation
• Materials and versioning
• Final compositing

2. DNA Sequence

• Basic setup using spheres and deformers
• Clone, repeat, and step
• Camera animation

3. Power Button

• Review the start stage of the comp
• Create a sphere with no shading
• Matching elements to the DNA animation

4. Coins Animation

• Review the start stage of the comp
• Create the main coin and set materials
• Animate the main coin
• Create a small coin
• Composite the elements

Conclusion

• What's next