Using C4D and Redshift to Solve Unique Problems

Kelcey Steele is a motion designer at Primal Screen in Atlanta, Georgia. After graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008, she moved to Atlanta and began her career at Radical Axis, mostly doing commercial projects and occasional compositing for Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Squidbillies.

Taught to use Maya in school, she worked on “a number of spinning phone ads” and realized she really liked 3D. That’s when a friend suggested she look into Cinema 4D. “It quickly became obvious to me that I wanted to start spending more time learning C4D, so I decided to take a side project that would fund buying it and help me learn it at the same time,” she recalls.

Over the course of that single freelance project, Steele developed a basic working knowledge, and she’s been hooked ever since. “I spent my nights and weekends learning as much as I could, and then transitioned to a design studio called Elevation. That’s where I really learned to use C4D.”

Now with Primal Scream for more than two years, she’s become increasingly skilled at using Cinema 4D and Redshift to solve novel problems. She shared what she’s learned on two recent projects during her presentation for Maxon’s virtual NAB 2020, which can be seen on our YouTube channel.

In addition to demonstrating how to create a simple XPresso setup to easily animate several components at one time, Steele will show how to use motion clips to help create a seamless dynamic loop. She’s also got some tips to share for quick, efficient modeling and for doing a basic scene conversion to Redshift. “I’ve been watching Cineversity presentations for years, so I’m incredibly proud to now have the opportunity to present some of my work and be part of the community,” she says.