Animate a Slinky Spring in Cinema 4D

How to create and animate a Slinky (or spring) in Cinema 4D using deformers and effectors in C4D.

We’ll animate a Helix which we’ll use as our Slinky, and use the Spline Wrap and Delay Effector to move it across our scene, before baking to Alembic and cloning the animation with offset provided by a Step Effector.

This tutorial was requested by Scott (one of our awesome Members) who needed to animate a slinky for a client project he was working on with Cinema 4D.

Feel free to use it in your own projects royalty free!

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