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CINEMA 4D R11 Quickstart – Non-Linear Animation
Create another motion source with an automatically created Motion Clip (you already know how this is done).
Our Timeline now contains three Motion Clips.
For a better overview, rename the sources (double-click on each name) from top to bottom, “MQ U+D”, “MQ
F+B” and “MQ L+R”, respectively. This will give you a better overview which source and which Motion Clip
contain which animation.
You can also get a better overview by adding an image or even a movie for each motion source. Right-clicking
on a motion source (at the left of the window) will open a Context Menu. Select the Add Picture to Motion
Source command and select any image or movie format. This is especially helpful for cleaning up the overview
when several artists are working together on a large project.
Now move the cursor over one of the Motion Clips in the Timeline. The cursor will either turn into a double arrow
with which you can move the Clip or an orange box with large “+” in it. The latter appears when the cursor is
placed over the beginning or end of a Clip and lets you scale (shorten or extend) the Clip. If a Clip is shortened
the animation will play faster, i.e. the motion will take place within a fewer number of frames. Move and scale
the Clips in your scene as pictured below – this will allow us to blend from one clip to the next.
There are two ways in which to mix Clips. They can either remain as independent layers, for which transitions
must be created or they can be dragged onto each other on a single layer.
For the first method, right-click on a Motion Clip and select the Make Transition command from the Context
Menu that appears. Now click and drag a connecting line from the top Clip to the Clip below it.