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
“In this lesson. we'll focus on crafting a character with a simple design. ensuring it's easy to draw and replicate effectively. When I proposed the idea initially. i made a first sketch. but it was just to put the idea down on paper. I think I'll discard it because I'd like to try with a slightly more adult or stylized character. The personality I aim to create is more self-important or vain. which doesn't align well with a small or amiable character. I want a more mature or sophisticated design instead. The idea is to design a character that is very easy to draw. Animating. we'll draw many...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Techniques for Character Animation
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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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