Playful Creature Design in Cinema 4D
Creating the Face, Arms, and Legs 1
A course by Eva Cremers , 3D Artist and Animation Director
About the video: Creating the Face, Arms, and Legs 1
Overview
“Let's now work on the most important part of the character: the facial expression and the rest of the body parts. Although my character has wings instead of arms, as you can see in my sketch, I will show you how to create two arms out of cylinders.”
In this video lesson Eva Cremers addresses the topic: Creating the Face, Arms, and Legs 1, 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 the Face, Arms, and Legs In this lesson, we will turn your abstract shape into a character. We will add facial expressions. After that, we will create the arms and the legs. Let's do it. I'm going to start by creating the eyes. Obviously, there are multiple ways to create the eyes. I usually go for using simple shapes like a Capsule or a Sphere. What you can do is copy-paste, place them next to each other, and there you go. You have two eyes. To create eyeballs, you can copy-paste again, place them a bit to the front, and then, make them slightly smaller like that. Super easy. Yo...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Playful Creature Design in Cinema 4D
-
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.
- 100% positive reviews (10)
- 346 students
- 16 lessons (2h 43m)
- 9 additional resources (0 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English
- English · Spanish · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever