Playful Animated Character Design with Cinema 4D
Lighting the Scene 1
A course by Alex Kiesling , Digital Painter, 3D Artist, and Animator
Joined February 2020
Joined February 2020
About the video: Lighting the Scene 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will go over a simple but effective lighting setup for the character using standard rendering. You will learn how to create some nice, soft shadows for the scene. ”
In this video lesson Alex Kiesling addresses the topic: Lighting the Scene 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
“ Lighting the Scene Now, we have the character rigged and animated. In this lesson, we'll add lighting to emphasize the mood and narrative. Now, we'll cover some basic lighting along with creating some basic materials. In the next lesson, we'll go over more material making, but we'll have something as a base so that we make sure our lighting will at least be accurate to what is being reflected in the materials. Some things to cover. In the last lesson, I changed some things. I moved the hands a bit closer and spread the bolts apart a bit. I also turned up the subdivisions for right now, be...”
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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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