Playful Animated Character Design with Cinema 4D
Animating the Character 1
A course by Alex Kiesling , Digital Painter, 3D Artist, and Animator
Joined February 2020
Joined February 2020
About the video: Animating the Character 1
Overview
“It's time to bring the character to life. In this lesson, I will layer up the animation and discuss good animation principles that can be applied to the piece to elevate character and realism. ”
In this video lesson Alex Kiesling addresses the topic: Animating the Character 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Playful Animated Character Design with Cinema 4D. Learn how to model, build, and animate engaging characters using the tools of Cinema 4D and After Effects.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Animating the Character In the last lesson, I went over how to model, rig, and animate hands. In this lesson, we'll go over how to animate the character while also applying some animation principles. This will bring the character to life a bit. Our character is coming along well, but we now want to bring it to life. To bring it to life, we can do things like animate the character. Before we start animating, we'll go over some of the panels. Let's go to Window, Timeline (Dope Sheet). As we've seen before, when we were doing our drip loop, this is the panel where we will be adjusting all of...”
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Course summary for: Playful Animated Character Design with Cinema 4D
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
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Areas
3D, 3D Animation, 3D Character Design, 3D Modeling, Animated Illustration, Animation, Art Direction, Character Animation, Character Design
Alex Kiesling
A course by Alex Kiesling
Alex Kiesling is a digital painter, 3D Artist, and Animator born in Wisconsin, US. He first began exploring art in the early 2000s via Tumblr. He later went on to graduate from Rhode Island School of Design as an illustrator. While still in search of his style, he moved to New York City, and started his career working in a children’s app company. There he found an appreciation for art that was more playful and began growing a following on social media, which attracted clients. He later left his job to pursue his freelance work full-time.
Now, Alex works in editorial and advertising for commercial brands. He has worked for companies including Apple, Google, MTV, Adobe, and The New York Times, and shares his work with over 45K followers on Instagram.
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