This is a tutorial on how to use the MoGrapher inside the MoTools geometry node toolkit for Blender.

I’m a long time user of Cinema 4D, and I really love its amazing MoGraph toolkit. So when I learned Blender and the Geometry Nodes, the first thing I tried was to replicate the Cinema 4D’s workflow inside Blender.

It turned out it wasn’t so easy, but in the end I think I managed to recreate most of the tools and functions.

The MoTools are a library asset you’re going to install inside the Asset Browser. Then, using Geometry Nodes, you just have to drag and drop the tools you need to animate your scene.

In this tutorial, we create a very simple scene from scratch using the Blender Kit Addon and then we animate the toy train only with the MoTools.

You’ll learn how to use the MoGrapher, one of the most interesting tool in the toolkit, which is going to make “MoGraph” everything in your scene. Then you can animate it using effector and falloff to get the animation you need.

We’ll start with a simple fade in animation, with the train pieces landing gently on the ground, then we’ll see how to make it more dynamic, how to animate every single individually, how to automate the animation and create some bounce effects.

Pardon my French! Please, keep in mind that I’m French and I live in France, so recording this tutorial in English is not easy 😉 Please pardon my hesitations and my accent!

A few prerequesites (this list is not exhaustive)

• You have installed the MoTools inside Blender
• You must know how to use Blender, at least as a beginner
• Having (tried to) use the Geometry Nodes

All these files are available with the course.

Don’t hesitate to show the animation you make with the tools !

We create a basic scene featuring a wooden train. Then we’re going to animate it using the Mographer inside the MoTools toolkit.