Expressive Techniques for Character Animation
Character Design
A course by Memé Candia , Graphic Designer and Animator
About the video: Character Design
Overview
“We are going to close the design of our character starting from the sketches that we generated in the previous lessons. We will focus on making it a simple and easily reproducible design.”
In this video lesson Memé Candia addresses the topic: Character Design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Techniques for Character Animation. Turn your characters into actors packed with emotion and create animated scenes full of life.
Partial transcription of the video
“Character Design In this lesson, we'll talk about character creation. focusing on making it a simple and easy-to-draw design. When I first thought of the idea, I made an initial sketch, but it was only to put the idea down on the page. I think I'm going to rule it out because I'd like to try with a more adult or stylized character. The personality I want to give him is more smug or arrogant. I think it doesn't match very well with this little friendly character. The idea is to design a character that is very easy to draw. When animating, we'll be drawing a lot. This is traditional animation...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Techniques for Character Animation
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Category
3D & Animation, Illustration -
Areas
Animation, Character Animation, Character Design, Digital Drawing

Memé Candia
A course by Memé Candia
Memé Candia is a graphic designer and professional 2D character animator from Mendoza, Argentina. Her first experience with animation was at Vlexus studio, where she produced content for television before ultimately deciding to dedicate herself to it full time.
Throughout her journey as a freelancer and collaborator with several advertising studios, she's had the opportunity to work on campaigns for brands like Disney XD, Cartoon Network, Coca-Cola, Uber, and Nike. She currently works alongside her friends and colleagues in her own animation studio, Bonkers Animation.
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