Must-have Cinema 4D animation plugins from Greyscalegorilla

In the previous article series, we introduced some lighting plugins to you to help speed up your workflow in Cinema 4D. In this article, let’s take a look at some Cinema 4D animation plugins from Greyscalegorilla, to create natural and complex animations without the need for tedious keyframes.

Find out 3 plugins to create natural and complex animations without the need for tedious keyframes.

This plugin helps you create loops, stop-motion effects, or time your animation to music. You can use drag-and-drop procedural workflow easily with Signal, and don’t need to animate with keyframes.

Some of Signal 3.0’s prominent features:

• • • • Instagram-worthy loops, helping you create looping animations in minutes with just a few clicks.
      • Integrated with Cinema 4D fieldsto trigger Signal and get even tighter control over your animations.
      • Drop Zone helps you add a Signal tag easier. You just need to drag the parameter of your choice onto Drop Zone, and it automatically sets up a Signal tag for you.
      • Looper Modifier adds variation to multiple parameters inside one Signal tag.
      • Updated Noise modifier helps you use all of Cinema 4D’s noises to add variation to your Signal animation.
      • 10 animation modifiers make it easy to use elements like noise to generate animations.
      • Powerful Scripts – Greyscalegorilla add fourteen scripts that let you quickly randomize seeds or offset all your Signal tags at once.
      • 7 Animation Presets automatically generate popular moves like flicker, bounce, vibration, and spin for you.
      • And many other features such as custom animation curves, preset ease curve menu, noise generated animations using Cinema 4D noises, Time Re-mapping, Beats Per Minute modifier, etc.

This plugin is single-user license.

This plugin helps you create cinematic camera moves and add subtle human imperfections to your scene, making it true to life and realistic.

Some of Gorillacam’s prominent features:

• • • • Camera Smoothing helps you get a classic stabilizer look and Overshoot will simulate a large camera rig.
      • Shake System helps you achieve natural camera shake with three different speeds in both position and rotation. Jolt will help you time a specific shake.
      • Target and Zoom helps you follow objects around your scene. To achieve a realistic scene that feels less CG, you can combine with overshoot and shake features.
      • Focal Drift works like a camera operator searching for proper focus. It will add an imperfect focal distance and tweak to get the look of changing focus in your scene.
      • Greyscalegorilla add 60 Camera Presets for you, all of them are popular camera movements used in product shots, arch-viz walk-throughs, and classic film and television moves.
      • Feeling Lucky button helps you generate random camera moves to preview dozens of looks.

This plugin is single-user license, and is compatible with Cinema 4D R20+. It can be used with some third-party renderers like Redshift, Arnold and Octane.

This plugin can support you to transform any object in Cinema 4D quickly and seamlessly without keyframes.

Some of Transform’s prominent features:

• • • • Instantly transform and animate any Cinema 4D objects, including MoGraph, type, logos, models, and clones.
      • Take control of your animation speed, direction, and Fracture Voronoi particles, all with a nondestructive workflow.
      • Greyscalegorilla adds 65 popular and trendy animation presets that can be applied to your objects in an instant.
      • Other features including Polygon mode for particle effects, Existing Parts mode, Custom Animation mode, Chunk mode, etc.

This plugin is single-user license, and is compatible with Cinema 4D R20+. It can be used with some third-party renderers like Redshift, Arnold and Octane.

You can definitely use these Cinema 4D animation plugins on iRender’s remote computers. iRender provides you a high-performance and configurable server system for 3D rendering, AI Training, VR & AR, simulation, etc. We believe that design and creative activities are private and personal that only you artists will know what you want with your animation.

You can create a machine with pre-installed Cinema 4D, then install these plugins on our remote machine (first time access only), add license, and modify, adjust and render by yourself there.

Let’s see some of Cinema 4D benchmark with Redshift, V-ray and Octane on our package RT4090s:

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