Playful Animated Character Design with Cinema 4D
Grainy Material 2
A course by Alex Kiesling , Digital Painter, 3D Artist, and Animator
Joined February 2020
About the video: Grainy Material 2
Overview
“Next, I will complete the material creation started in the previous lesson and create some noise over the top to get a natural texture feel.”
In this video lesson Alex Kiesling addresses the topic: Grainy Material 2, 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 This is looking nice. I like how the highlights are hitting this side of the face and the other side and it makes them look shiny and gelatin, but I don't like this highlight happening on the ear. What we can do is go onto Specular, go back to our project, and delete our Ears. Now you see that the left side Specular is not affecting the ear right here. It's taking the creative liberty to ensure the design is the priority and not being dictated by whatever is the light in the scene. Let's go into our Luminance and animate our Noise here. What we can do is go on our Seed, wh...”
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Course summary for: Playful Animated Character Design with Cinema 4D
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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
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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