I don’t know about Cinema 4D, but that seems like enough RAM and a good enough processor to do basic After Effects work. (It’s pretty similar to the laptop that I used for a lot of AFter Effects work until four months ago.) Just don’t expect to use Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously multiprocessing.
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