This is something I didn't learn in my motion design class and this is about to save my final. While classes are strictly online you have been my favorite professor.

Very useful indeed, thank you very much.

Oh my lord, thank you. I've spent the past 2 hours trying to figure out why my globe wouldn't spin 360 degrees on an axis and this is why, thank you.

Perfectly explained, thank you

VERY good explanation THX

Perfect tutorial! Thnx

Very interesting. Thanks a lot!

Such an amazing explanation ... I came from here via coding my game while searching w value of quaternion in Unity3D and found this great explanation. Thank you very much :)

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Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge, very well explained !

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You da man

Great! But cant make spline rotate no smooth, what i can do?

Hello, i was wondering if you could do a tutorial on debris like making debris explode or breaking a window, or making a wall fall into prices. All of the other tutorial suggest using the "knife tool". however, that tool is no longer in Cinema 4D R19. If you could please respond, that would mean a lot to me. Thanks!

Sorry but this is not a good solution for 90% of animation needs as when you switch to Quaternion mode you can no longer control easing in the graph editor! That means that every interpolation will be a hard-hitting linear one. For any kind of character work (or even things like cameras etc) that's a major limitation as the animation will look clunky and mechanical. A better approach generally is to pick the best rotation order for your character to begin with to avoid gimbal issues in the first place -This video uses Maya but the principle is the same and animators now have rotation order options in Cinema too.. vimeo.com/54541692 .. or alternatively if you don't want to mess with rotation orders simply group the object ('nulls' in C4D) and just rotate one axis on each group. That's a very common solution for character rigs for any control that will have a very wide range of rotational range (FK upper arms, head etc)