Mr Cube Animation Breakdown – Cinema 4d + After Effects

June 7, 2012 By 2 Comments

This is a quick breakdown of Mr Cube Animation project done by “Casey Latiolais” where he shows how he created this cool looking Hand drawn animation in Cinema 4d and After effects by animating a few sweep nurbs on a spline to get the basic shapes. Then he went into After Effects and hand keyed ever frame of shape layers.

Mr Cube Animation Breakdown – Cinema 4d + After Effects

From Casey: As requested I’ve made the breakdown of Mr. Cube and my take on how to achieve this style:

  • Method 1 : After Effects shape layers – done by keyframing paths and opacity on and off.
  • Method 2 : Photoshop Extended video timeline layer – import video into Photoshop and create path and draw on black video layer
  • Method 3 : Photoshop Extended video frames as layers – import video into Photoshop as separate layers and draw on new layer then export. I haven’t used this yet but I think it will work.
  • Method 4 : Flash – convert video to flv and import into timeline. Draw your path or paint of a separate layer export image sequence. I don’t go into explaining this because I’d probably just make a fool of myself with what I know about Flash.

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  • Itoboi

    Dude!  Thank you so much for this break down, really helps to wrap your head around your technique.  I wish more people would post their projects in detail like you’ve done. BRAVO!

  • Giorgos

    Just a small tip.. you don’t have to frame by frame every stroke in after effects by doing shape layers. You can export each line from c4d with object buffers. After importing these buffers to after effects, choose the auto-trace and you will have masks like shape layers