These posters originated as a project in a class I took, Essential Typography, in which we created a poster for a musician, with an emphasis on the typography. So I made these posters as a series in Cinema 4D with light touching up in Photoshop. The astronaut is a model I got online and the dancing animations are from Mixamo. I had to slightly alter the uv’s on the model and then I added a simple cartoon shader with Cinema 4D’s standard material.
But the more I worked on it, the more I wanted to create more assets with this style and vibe. Having talked it over with Casper Sun, we agreed that there was a lot of different ways we could move forward with this look and atmosphere.
To get the visual look, I used a mix of cel shader plus outline post process material, along with a kuwahara filter for the background. The cel shaders were created manually using tutorials, and while I created a kuwahara filter manually as a post process material initially, it did not work reliably (it would constantly pop in and out). Eventually I settled on using the Chameleon blueprint, as it was faster and more modular.
