“Years ago, I envisioned a simpler version of 'Floating' as a music video, but I didn’t have the technical confidence to do it,” he explains.

But to understand how to pull off the 3D character animation and visual effects needed for the film, he spent six months learning Maxon's Cinema 4D and Andersson Technologies' SynthEyes camera tracker. The film’s original score was written and performed by the Welsh band The Joy Formidable, and Jardin co-wrote the script with his friend Matthew Beans, a writer for Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken. “If you keep the characters' gender ambiguous, this could be a love story for any type of couple, or it could be a story of friendship or companionship,” he explains. Though he originally envisioned the story as a balloon-boy-meets-balloon-girl love story, Jardin later came to see the film in more neutral terms.

In Greg Jardin’s new short film, 'Floating,' a lonely person made out of balloons longs to connect with someone else in a city bustling with preoccupied strangers. (Studio featured Jardin's Joey Ramone music video last year.) C4D maker Maxon and writer Meleah Maynard offered StudioDaily a behind-the-scenes look at Jardin's process for compositing the animated figure into live-action environments. In this Cinema 4D tutorial, EJ Hassenfratz shows you how you can have a character throw and catch and object using Parent Constraints! This #C4D tutorial is for beginner and advanced users, and those familiar with character rigging.Filmmaker Greg Jardin created a short film, 'Floating,' using Cinema 4D and SynthEyes to insert a CG balloon character into real-world situations. New to 3D? Watch my FREE Cinema 4D Lite for the 2D Animator series! Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE if you enjoy this tutorial & check out more tutorials at Modeling Rubber Hose Style Characters in Cinema 4D: Īnimate a Character Walk Cycle in Cinema 4D: Ĭheck out my blog for over a hundred more free & easy to follow motion graphics tutorials. Rubber Hose Style Character #Rigging in Cinema 4D:

Learn how to use Parent Constraints to have a character pick up, throw and catch an object in #Cinema4D! Download project files:

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