Illustration and GIF Creation on Procreate
Creation of the characters
A course by Natalia Rojas , Designer and Founder
About the video: Creation of the characters
Overview
“In this lesson we will draw the first sketches of our characters to animate. ”
In this video lesson Natalia Rojas addresses the topic: Creation of the characters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration and GIF Creation on Procreate. Turn your illustrated characters into animated GIFs step by step with your iPad Pro.
Partial transcription of the video
“CREATING CHARACTERS Now that we have our idea and character for the project, let's see some tips to create them. We'll use some geometric and some organic shapes. We'll also see another tip for when it's hard to find inspiration and we can play with different types of stains for the creation of our characters. Let's see. CHARACTER DESIGN I'll share some tips for the creation of characters. As some geometric shapes can help us to give our character some personality. For example, if it's round, we can associate it with a sweet, friendly character. If it's square, it's a character that can be ...”
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Course summary for: Illustration and GIF Creation on Procreate
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Category
3D & Animation, Illustration -
Software
Procreate -
Areas
2D Animation, Animated Illustration, Character Animation, Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Natalia Rojas
A course by Natalia Rojas
Natalia Rojas is the director of the graphics collective Los Naked, a group of designers that like to draw, dance, cook, and tell stories. Los Naked emerged almost seven years ago, while Natalia was still studying Visual Arts. Once she finished her studies, Natalia took a course in traditional animation using pencil and paper. From then on, her work focuses on the moving image, another form of telling a story.
She has worked with clients like Revista Semana, Avianca, El Malpensante, Sad Magazine, Editorial Santillana, Shock, Fondo de turismo, Colombian design brands like Breathe and Tuá e Muá, and social and educational platforms like Sentiido and Usted mismo.
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