Last night on the train ride home I didn’t get a seat by the window so I decided to pull out my laptop and play around with some software. I decided upon Cinema 4D. I have really only had Cinema 4D for a little while now and I haven’t really unlocked the power of it yet. It’s got this suite of modules, one of which is called Mo’Graph. Mo’Graph is a set of objects that perform wild and crazy functions on other objects in the scene. The focus of Mo’Graph is very clearly rooted in the mode of graphic design. I was discovering all sorts of things about it as I went along. The potential is pretty unending when it comes to this set of objects.
I basically created a sphere and applied a Mo’Graph object called PolyFx to it. PolyFX then takes control of every polygon that makes up the sphere. I can control the uniform scale, position and rotation of every polygon that make up the sphere. The kind of geometry that I was seeing from just messing around with the parameters within PolyFx was already super amazing.
I dug deeper into an object called the Time Effector which allows me to animate the parameters of the PolyFX without having to set very many keyframes. I rendered the resulting animation without too many bells and whistles, in regards to render settings, because I wanted to make sure it would finish by morning.
Enjoy the video! The music I put under it is from a monome artist called Watson. It is his track from the second Monome Community Remix Project called “Venutian Chant“