animTools for C4D

animTools for Cinema4D:

animTools is a plugin for Cinema4D. It was created to extend the programs capabilities for character animation and support your day-by-day workflow in many ways. The plugin has been created for our own use, and we are very happy to share this little helper with you so you can create your animated performances a little easier.

If you are a student and/or severely affected by the COVID-19 crisis and are not able to spend anything but still want to use the plugin, please reach out for a free version.

The plugin is and will always be in beta so we can provide you new features as soon as they enter our production. While the plugin is tested in our productions, there can always be bugs or incompatibilities with your workflow. We are very happy to extend the tool to fit with other standard pipelines. Please reach out if we need to fit some features to your pipeline.

I would be very happy if you report any bugs and feature requests so I can fix them as well as extend the plugin. Since we can't and don't want to take resposibility for any lost work, I advise you to use it carefully, use autosave or save your work often ( This is a good idea anyway I guess.. ).

You can find out more here: https://tetsuoanimation.com/animtools-doc

animTools is production tested with Cinema 4D R21 on Windows but it should be backwards compatible until R19. The plugin should be working with S22, but there has not been any use in production yet.
As there have been a lot of API changes in R23, there is now an extra version for R23. It is in beta and being production tested at this moment. Simple features like tweenmachine and timeline enhancements have already been tested and work nicely.

This plugin was first developed for the lego news show web series at fuel new media and is now maintained by me. It has since been used in many differen tv commercials, films and other media.