Creative Character Design for Products
Principles of Character Design
A course by Rob Flowers , Illustrator
About the video: Principles of Character Design
Overview
“In this lesson, I will look at some of the principles of character design by analysing my favorite characters on my own mood board. ”
In this video lesson Rob Flowers addresses the topic: Principles of Character Design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Character Design for Products. Develop a cohesive set of characters to apply to any kind of object using Adobe Illustrator.
Partial transcription of the video
“Principles of Character Design We'll look at the principles of character design by analysing my favourite characters from my own mood board. Let's go for it. My first two examples are "The Simpsons" and the McDonald's characters that were used for advertising in the early '70s. And then we've got "Barbapapa", an animation from quite a long time ago. The Garbage Pail Kids. On the next page we have Sanrio, there's hundreds of characters in this particular company's range of design, but I've picked some here. I've got "Peanuts" featuring Charlie Brown and Pig-Pen by Charles Schulz. Below that ...”
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Course summary for: Creative Character Design for Products
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration
Rob Flowers
A course by Rob Flowers
Rob Flowers is a London-based illustrator who specializes in character design. He’s been a freelance illustrator for over fifteen years, a period in which he has created illustrations for TV commercials, music videos, fashion collections, newspapers, magazines, and even edible posters.
Throughout his career, his illustrations have been published in The New York Times, Time Out, Hollywood Reporter, and Creative Review; in advertising campaigns for Converse, Maynard Bassetts, ASOS, Heely’s, Red Bull, and Pull&Bear; and through collaborations with brands like Nike, Mambo, and Wolf & Badger. He has also designed and directed music videos for Kaiser Chiefs and Tinie Tempah.
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