Introduction to Voxel Art for Character Design

Overview

“This is probably the most fun you’ll have before doing any art (at least for me). Gathering and making your animation references. Animating well is hard and using references makes it just that much easier. You’ll start by learning where to gather resources on animations. It’s always good to grab from animation reels on Vimeo because they’re often compilations of clips which is what you want. However, getting the exact animation you want is not always easy to accomplish. With that being said, here’s how you create your animation reference.”

In this video lesson Zach Soares addresses the topic: Building Animation References, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Voxel Art for Character Design. Think outside the box and bring your characters to life with Qubicle, Maya or Blender, and Unity.

Partial transcription of the video

“Building animation references Now I'll be showing you how to build your animation references. This can be taken from your personal animations. There's various ways you can find animation references. From Vimeo or YouTube recordings, GIFs you find online, but one thing I really like to focus on personally is making your own animation references using your phone. This is particularly because you can't always find what exactly you wanna do, and sometimes it's easier to do it yourself, because you know exactly what animations you wanna do. What's important is how you capture it. That means the ...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Voxel Art for Character Design

• Level: Beginner
• 94% positive reviews (90)
• 3449 students
• 4 units
• 24 lessons (5h 13m)
• 10 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Blender, Maya, Qubicle, Unity 3D

• Areas

  3D, 3D Animation, 3D Character Design, 3D Modeling, Character Design