Playful Creature Design in Cinema 4D

Overview

“In this lesson, I will show you how to add light and shadows to the scene. My characters are usually quite flat looking, with not too many harsh shadows. But if you want to create a different look, feel free to experiment, of course! ”

In this video lesson Eva Cremers addresses the topic: Adding Lighting, 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

“ Adding Lighting In this lesson, I'll show you a simple way of adding lighting to your scene. My characters usually are quite flat-looking, but maybe you want to experiment with, for example, a very dark scene. That's completely fine, but I'll show you my way first. Let's have a look. As you might understand, lighting will affect the final look of your illustration. If you want to go for a very dark, scary situation, then you might want to have light coming especially from the back or from one side or even have colored light. If you want to have a very happy feeling that I usually go for, ...”

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Course summary for: Playful Creature Design in Cinema 4D

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (10)
• 356 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 43m)

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Areas

  3D, Animated Illustration