Playful Animated Character Design with Cinema 4D
Compositing
A course by Alex Kiesling , Digital Painter, 3D Artist, and Animator
Joined February 2020
About the video: Compositing
Overview
“You have everything rendered out and now you are ready to bring it all together. In this lesson, I will use After Effects to set up the scene including adjusting frame rates, color correcting on adjustment layers, and extra fun effects you might want to add.”
In this video lesson Alex Kiesling addresses the topic: Compositing, 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
“ Compositing In the previous lesson, I made some adjustments to finalize our scene. In this lesson, I'll bring our scene into After Effects along with some other assets. Then we'll layer some adjustment layers that will include some effects and color grading to elevate the scene. We'll start compositing in After Effects but as you see, before I start doing that, I created my own additional elements and imported some things into Photoshop to make sure everything matches up. For example, you'll see here that I imported the character itself and tweaked some of the actual lighting within the s...”
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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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