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Projecting Splines on Curved Surfaces in C4D

By October 23, 2015No Comments

Projecting Splines is a workflow that gets used a lot for modeling in Cinema 4D, and C4D makes it easy to do. Projecting splines on a flat surface is a simple task, but what if you have an object that has a curved surface?

[pullquote]how to use Spline Project to have your splines stick properly to an object that is not flat[/pullquote]

Here, The Pixel Lab’s Joren Kandel shares a method for projecting a spline that will minimize the distortion that you would typically see on a curved surface. This can be important if you are placing text on a curved surface, and still want it to look true to the original typeface without stretching on either side.

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