Design of Characters and 3D Animation
Lighting / shading
A course by Rafael Carmona , 3D Artist
About the video: Lighting / shading
Overview
“In this lesson I explain how I create a lighting set and how I apply materials to my character. ”
In this video lesson Rafael Carmona addresses the topic: Lighting / shading, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design of Characters and 3D Animation. Design, model, animate and post-produce a character in 3D based on a classic household appliance.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we will see how to create a lighting set that will give light to our character. Once we have we will begin to apply cinema materials. Let's go to it. Well, here we have our character, where we had left him as you see I have changed a bit the proportions until I have been satisfied and I have arranged the fingers here around the hand and others, and I made a symmetry to the arms and the leg, and I have nested the elements as you see inside the arm goes the hand , inside the hand the fingers and others. This of the hierarchies then, it works in such a way, that if you select t...”
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Course summary for: Design of Characters and 3D Animation
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Cinema 4D -
Areas
3D, 3D Animation, 3D Character Design, 3D Design, Character Animation

Rafael Carmona
A course by Rafael Carmona
Rafael Carmona is a freelance and professor of 3D disciplines. For more than eighteen years, he has developed as a generalist within the 3D branch, participating in different processes within animation and VFX productions.
He has contributed his knowledge to various projects, from the development of animation series, to the pre-production phase of visual effects projects, or even in the animation of motion graphics for advertising, museums, video clips and more. Rafa skillfully combines different styles and techniques and applies them to his most personal projects, always trying to bring a touch of humor to everything he does.
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