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Animate Clones for 3D Motion Graphics

Lesson 15 of 17Spline 3DIntermediate25 min

Hello! In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the new cloner system on Spline to animate clones and create motion graphics/designs.

Demo scenes: 1. Flower Demo: https://my.spline.design/clonerflower-207887dfeb79bbff4e5eece0f1f8c6e8/ Remix: https://app.spline.design/file/85b95b4e-b852-4ba0-9d9d-7621d9a9ced2

2. Cloner cubes Demo: http://my.spline.design/clonercubebinary-8188bb46b62f5b0cbdafa809674b5a28/ Remix: http://app.spline.design/file/d6b3a422-eb38-486a-8ef3-071d0589196f

3. Dark City Demo: https://my.spline.design/clonercity-5b6ad09d9a568bfc3629559a9a6458ec/ Remix: https://app.spline.design/file/990f6500-058b-46c5-a71e-f8aae2adcdf2

What you’ll learn

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 0:23Linear clones
  3. 2:00Radial clones
  4. 3:14Grid clones
  5. 4:12Randomness
  6. 5:15Animation and movement with noise scale
  7. 7:00Duplicating clones
  8. 8:40Adding depth to the clones
  9. 10:18Animating rotation values
  10. 10:45Using the scale to create detail or waves
  11. 11:25Cloning over a surface
  12. 12:45Cloning on polygons, edges, and vertices
  13. 13:30Alignment
  14. 14:35Exploring spherical effects
  15. 16:46Cloning groups
  16. 19:53Case Study: How to simulate grass
  17. 21:28Case Study: Organic movements
  18. 22:41Case Study: 2d effects
  19. 23:14Case Study: Complex city-like clones

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