Playful Animated Character Design with Cinema 4D

Grainy Material 1

A course by Alex Kiesling , Digital Painter, 3D Artist, and Animator

Digital Painter, 3D Artist, and Animator. Nueva York, United States.
Joined February 2020
100% positive reviews (33)
1,499 students
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About the video: Grainy Material 1

Overview

“Material creation is my personal favorite part of the process. Here I will create a softly shaded grain material to apply to the goblin’s skin.”

In this video lesson Alex Kiesling addresses the topic: Grainy Material 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

“ Grainy Material In the last lesson, I taught you how to arrange the lighting for a scene. In this one, we'll go over how to create a grainy soft material that we can apply to objects and characters. In this video, you will start creating a material that will have a stylized grain approach. As you can see when we go here and click Interactive Render Region, we have our scene lit up to how we would want it. Throughout this video, we might go and change some little things, but for the most part this is how we want our scene to look. We will begin creating some materials. To do this, we'll go...”

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Course summary for: Playful Animated Character Design with Cinema 4D

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (33)
  • 1499 students
  • 5 units
  • 22 lessons (5h 5m)
  • 10 downloads
  • Category

    3D & Animation
  • Software

    Cinema 4D
  • Areas

    3D, 3D Animation, 3D Character Design, 3D Modeling, Animated Illustration, Animation, Art Direction, Character Animation, Character Design

Alex Kiesling

Alex Kiesling
A course by Alex Kiesling

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Digital Painter, 3D Artist, and Animator

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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Playful Animated Character Design with Cinema 4D. 3D, and Animation course by Alex Kiesling

Playful Animated Character Design with Cinema 4D

A course by Alex Kiesling
Digital Painter, 3D Artist, and Animator. Nueva York, United States.
Joined February 2020
  • 100% positive reviews (33)
  • 1,499 students