Creating Loop Animation Stories
Design the characters
A course by Pablo Cuello , Graphic designer and Animator
About the video: Design the characters
Overview
“We will create the protagonists of our story, we will explore different styles and we will have the challenge of making them simple, but charming. ”
In this video lesson Pablo Cuello addresses the topic: Design the characters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Loop Animation Stories. Learn how to animate characters frame by frame using simple designs.
Partial transcription of the video
“DESIGN THE CHARACTERS Based on the idea, we will now look for a style for our characters. To start designing characters, We can base ourselves on the sketch of the idea that we had already made. We create a new Photoshop file and now we don't worry much because of the size or dimensions of the document, we'll just focus on the creative to try to style our character. We start pasting in our new document the different poses and situations where the character was in the idea to be able to design the necessary elements for our history. We start to draw looking for a shape for our main character...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Creating Loop Animation Stories
-
Category
3D & Animation -
Software
Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate -
Areas
2D Animation, Animation, Character Animation

Pablo Cuello
A course by Pablo Cuello
A native of Mendoza, Argentina, Pablo Cuello is a graphic designer who graduated from the National University of Cuyo (Argentina). Since he was a child he always liked to draw and, after several years of working as a designer, he started to get into the world of animation with Adobe After Effects.
The quality of his work led him to work for the production company MediaMonks, where he developed projects for major brands such as Google, Red Bull, or Amazon. He explores traditional animation to add a more personalized touch to his work.
- 100% positive reviews (178)
- 5,588 students
- 21 lessons (2h 48m)
- 20 additional resources (9 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever