Assemble Text

1. Open “AssembleText_Start.c4d”

Fracture your text

1. Create a fracture object (Mograph -> Fracture)
2. Select all of the splines inside of your Extrude Object
   1. Tip: To select multiple objects: click on the first object you want to select. Scroll down to the last object you want to select. Hold down the “shift” key on your #keyboard, and then click on the last object in the list.
3. Drag your splines into your fracture object.
4. Delete the extra Null that is no longer holding your splines.
5. Drag fracture object into your Extrude NURBS.
6. Ensure your Fracture Object is selected

Randomize/Disassemble Your Text

1. Add a MoGraph->Random Effector to your scene.
2. Click on your Random Effector and adjust the following attributes:
   1. Parameter->P.X = 0
   2. Parameter->P.Y = 0
   3. Parameter->P.Z = 300M
   4. Parameter->R.H = 360

Animate the text.

1. Go to Frame 0.
2. In the attributes manager, go to your Random Effector, click on the Effector Tab.
3. Add a keyframe for the strength parameter (should be 100%).
4. To add a key: Ctrl. Click on the gray dot just to the left of the parameter
5. Go to Frame 60.
6. Change strength to 0%. Add a keyframe.

Extension Activity 1:

In a new scene try create an animation similar to this, where individual letters move randomly using the MoText object.

Extension Activity 2:

Try to recreate this whole scene from scratch using Adobe Illustrator to create text, and break it up into segments.