Cinema 4D: Bring Playful 3D Illustrations to Life
Lighting and texturing 1
A course by Mattey , Illustrator and Art Director
About the video: Lighting and texturing 1
Overview
“First of all, I will show you how to place your character in the illustration and prepare your interface to optimize your work. I will also explain to you how to import an HDRI to place and configure the light of your illustration.”
In this video lesson Mattey addresses the topic: Lighting and texturing 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Cinema 4D: Bring Playful 3D Illustrations to Life. Create an incredible three-dimensional world full of colors, movement, and detail and learn all the secrets of Cinema 4D, Photoshop, and Octane.
Partial transcription of the video
“Lighting and Textures In this course, we will look at how to use lighting in the scene and add texture to the illustration. I've opened a file with my character next to it. I'll just copy and paste it into my scene, and I'll place it in the center of my illustration. I'll place the top camera, try to place it and prevent it from interfering with elements, drag it behind the foreground. Here it is, right in the center of the composition. We’ll enlarge it a bit and raise the character a bit so that we can see the hands. So, a bit like that. I'll change two, three little things like that. I li...”
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Course summary for: Cinema 4D: Bring Playful 3D Illustrations to Life
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Cinema 4D -
Areas
3D, 3D Modeling, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Mattey
A course by Mattey
Mathieu Le Berre, better known under the pseudonym Mattey, is a prolific illustrator and art director. He believes three-dimensional tools such as Cinema 4D allow him to give free rein to his creativity and vitality to every project.
By following his creative instinct and making careful thought and consideration a top priority, he goes ever deeper into his universe full of original, pop colors that has already caught the eye of Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe.
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