Anthropomorphic Character Creation
Materials and Opening Your Imagination
A course by Félicie Haymoz , Character Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Materials and Opening Your Imagination
Overview
“In this lesson, I will go over the materials that are needed for painting in watercolor as well as the tricks our mind plays when drawing and/or looking at an image.”
In this video lesson Félicie Haymoz addresses the topic: Materials and Opening Your Imagination, which is part of the Domestika online course: Anthropomorphic Character Creation. Learn the creative process behind designing and illustrating fantastic animal characters full of personality.
Partial transcription of the video
“Materials and Opening Your Imagination In this lesson I'll show you all the materials that we're gonna use, and then we'll have some fun with watercolor. Here I have some pencils that I like to use. Especially for line drawing, I think these are the best. They're called Col-Erase. I like to use the orange one when I'm not sure what I'm gonna draw, and then I use the black one to trace the final lines that I like. I also brought my favorite pencil. This is something I've been using for twenty years. It lived in my suitcase and got damaged a bit, but I needed to bring it today, and it's a 0.5...”
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Course summary for: Anthropomorphic Character Creation
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting

Félicie Haymoz
A course by Félicie Haymoz
NYC-based Swiss character designer Félicie Haymoz has a range of experience in creating unique characters for animated films, TV, and advertisements.
She has worked with director Wes Anderon as lead character designer for his animated films Fantastic Mr. Fox (2007) and Isle of Dogs (2015). Her long list of clients includes Netflix, Warner Bros, Nexus Films, Agile Films, and Aardman animation. Félicie also gives talks and lectures on animation, and has been a guest speaker at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, Parsons School for Design, Paris, and Pictoplasma Festival in Berlin. In 2010, she wrote, produced, and directed her first short film Je Maudis Ma Nuit, which was selected for festivals across Europe and was screened in France and Switzerland.
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