Digital 3D Lettering with Mixed Media
Basic Lighting and Materials
A course by José Bernabé , Graphic Designer and Lettering Artist
About the video: Basic Lighting and Materials
Overview
“Here you will place some basic but effective lightning. Also, you will include some basic materials using Redshift. ”
In this video lesson José Bernabé addresses the topic: Basic Lighting and Materials , which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital 3D Lettering with Mixed Media. Create bold and colorful typographic compositions by combining the digital tools of Photoshop, Illustrator, and Cinema 4D with painting techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Basic Lighting and Materials In this lesson, I will show you how to create very realistic light and how to apply materials on Cinema 4D using Redshift. Let me show you how. Now, we're going to create some lights. Basically, I use two different kinds of lights. The first one I use is the Dome Light and then the Area Light. These are the most important ones and the ones that I use in the 90% of my work. First of all, we're going to open the Render View of our scene. We're going to place it here to have a good overview of everything. First, I'm going to change our output to 3000 and 3000 so we...”
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Course summary for: Digital 3D Lettering with Mixed Media
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Category
3D & Animation, Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Cinema 4D -
Areas
3D, 3D Lettering, 3D Modeling, Digital Lettering, Lettering

José Bernabé
A course by José Bernabé
José Bernabé is a Spanish graphic designer and lettering artist based in Málaga. After studying illustration in his hometown, Murcia, he began his career as a graphic designer, where he worked on logos, web design, illustration, and image editing. He went on to work at Philips Design in Amsterdam as well as the corporate advertising agency JWT Amsterdam.
Throughout his career, José has created artwork for brands like Nike, Adobe, Nickelodeon, adidas, Amazon, Unilever, Old Spice, KLM, Citroën, Nutricia, and Dalí Speakers, among others. His work has been published on Adobe, Inspiration Now, Design Taxi, TrendHunter, Photoshop Creative Magazine, Fahrenheit Magazine, Index Books, Betype, Graffica, and more. José has given workshops and lectures for Elements Talks (Warsaw), Festival de Antigua (Guatemala), Let’s Talk Design (Amsterdam) and Core 77 (New York).
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