Playful Creature Design in Cinema 4D
Creating Shapes
A course by Eva Cremers , 3D Artist and Animation Director
About the video: Creating Shapes
Overview
“Now, we will explore four different ways of creating interesting shapes. You will see all the possibilities of these techniques within Cinema 4D and hopefully, it will inspire you for the sketching phase later. ”
In this video lesson Eva Cremers addresses the topic: Creating Shapes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Playful Creature Design in Cinema 4D. Learn to model, render, and animate 3D characters full of personality and texture using organic shapes and simple design techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Creating Shapes In this lesson, I'll show you four techniques that I use a lot to create my characters and hopefully it inspires you for our sketch lesson later. Let's have a look. I'll quickly show you the four techniques we are going to learn in this lesson before we dive in. The first tool that we'll use is the Brush tool. This lets you manipulate geometry in a very easy way. After that, I'll explain using the sculpting tools where you can change your object almost as if it's clay. We will also look at creating shapes from drawing lines, like this. There we go. Finally, we will combine...”
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Course summary for: Playful Creature Design in Cinema 4D
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Category
3D & Animation -
Areas
3D, Animated Illustration

Eva Cremers
A course by Eva Cremers
Eva is a Dutch 3D illustrator and animation director with a consistently playful, fun and cheeky style. She started working and experimenting in 3D after her degree in graphic design, and has been hooked ever since. Through the use of bold colors, characters with charm and a graphic CGI style, her aim is to create artwork that sparks joy and brings huge smiles on people’s faces.
She has collaborated with brands such as Apple, Amazon Music, Nike and Facebook in both the physical and digital world. She is also the recipient of the 2021 D&AD Next Illustrator Award for creative excellence as an upcoming artist.
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