Thanks danijelk but I'd like to create this in C4D as I do not use AE...well not yet anyway.

Thanks so much, I looked through the file but I was thinking a script that when run it would:   Look at selected object store display color into variable search through project and select all objects that have the same display color.   When I try and implement your xpresso rig it only works with objects directly inside the parent.  I have scenes that have multiple objects in multiple parents.  Thanks so much for the help.

Hi,   You can do it easily with magnify effect later in After Effects, just render out your animation from C4D and import in AE for further magnification, some tutorial about this:     Cheers, Danijel    

I have been using C4D for just over a year now but my next challenge is animation.   I need to do a simple animation of a magnified effect, please see graphic below;     I do not know where to start so help and advice is gratefully received.

That is a heavy scene :) You can actually reduce this and have the same result. All you need is one cloner, reduced spline and sweep values to get acceptable performance. Unfortunately I don't know what was your desired animation of the scene but now it performs well so I am sure you can adjust it     Circuits_reduced.c4d

Thanks for the reply natevplas, i'll keep the ik as a last resort. For now I'll try and figure out the cool solution Jed posted. Thank you very much.   (...) (stares at xpresso)   Hm that's counter intuitive to me, to rotate the wheel you divide its global position through its radius? Tilting the cart is a matter of ... no wait ...

Hello everybody,   Guess you can help me with this. I'm creating an opener that includes some geometries with glass shader; I was planning to put some cards behind the glass elements and show them just through the refractions. The obvious issue is that the textures I have to apply to the cards are not ready yet (they should be pictures of a crew) and I was wondering if it's possible to export from C4D the displacement map generated by the refractions and subsequently displace in post the texture that are gonna match the perspective due to the external compositing tag (applied to all the cards behind the glass elements)   Let me know if it makes any sense to you:)   Thanks guys   cavolfiore  

Hi!    Is there a way to bind hotkey to layout preset (modeling/sculpting etc...)? Or make buttons on panel for different layouts? Thanks.    P.S. Yes, there is 'Switch Layout' command/button but it only shows list of all layouts.    

Thanks for your response,  I did actually try baking the project in the timeline, but it messed up all the geometry. here's the project file https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kkAYfeU-10exI-mohCc2XDe7CrIslNPn

@teknow ... That was great, Ron. Thanks a lot. You did use some kind of magic in there. ... But, sorry, the MultiShader does a similar job with a cloner... using only one clone and one material. I think if that is possible with the MultiShader, there must be a way. ... Looking to your xpresso web (XW for its friends) can you explain that a little better, if you have some minutes, of course. That's a great job. ... Thanks a lot. ... João Marco