Blue Fox shows how to make a spline tracer effect right in Blender.

Blue Fox Creation’s series for creating motion graphics setups in Blender that mimic some of Maxon Cinema 4D’s features and toolset, the latest tutorial shows how to recreate C4D’s spline tracer in Blender using Animation Nodes. Blender had some motion graphics features previously, and the recent addition of Animation Nodes expanded those features to include procedural animation.

Animation Nodes.

Animation Nodes is a visual scripting system designed for creating motion graphics in Blender. Like most Mograph tools, it allows you to create instances and animations procedurally. Created by Jacques Lucke, Animation Nodes is now part of the Blender team. Jacques Lucke is not only working on Animation nodes but a larger project called “Everything Nodes.” The project hopes to make Blender’s animation, particles, and modeling toolset much more powerful.