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Character Creation for Animation: Shapes, Color, and Expression

My Influences

A course by Laura Ewing Ferrer , Illustrator and Storyboarder

Reveal your character’s personality by working on a concept and illustrate it using Photoshop

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About the video: My Influences

Overview

“There are giants in the animation world that have really influenced me, I will show you their work during this lesson. ”

In this video lesson Laura Ewing Ferrer addresses the topic: My Influences , which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Creation for Animation: Shapes, Color, and Expression. Reveal your character’s personality by working on a concept and illustrate it using Photoshop.

Partial transcription of the video

“MY INFLUENCES In this lesson, I'm so excited to talk to you about influences, people that have influenced my life, artists I've been watching as I grew up. I love art and I love animators and animation in general, TV shows, since I was little. If we go all the way back, I was influenced by them. I loved watching those movies, I was obsessed with how they created these works of art. How could that be a job? It was absolutely beautiful. And this painstaking work, four years, five years in the making by these artists that are still alive, some of them still work at Disney, because that influen...”

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Course summary for: Character Creation for Animation: Shapes, Color, and Expression

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (287)
7537 students
5 units
22 lessons (4h 39m)
16 downloads

Category
3D & Animation, Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Animation, Character Animation, Character Design, Drawing

Laura Ewing Ferrer

A course by Laura Ewing Ferrer

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Illustrator and Storyboarder

Laura Ewing is a freelance illustrator and storyboarder with a passion for animation. As a young girl, she would spend hours watching documentaries and DVD extras of her favorite animated films, in disbelief that creating these stories was a real job.

She went on to study Graphic Design, with a specialization in illustration, to then study Fine Art at The Florence Academy of Art in Italy, and obtained her Master’s degree in storyboarding at Lightbox academy.

Her diverse experience in the industry includes working in-house at Smile and Learn, as well as working as a freelance artist for documentaries, pilot series, and publishing houses. She most recently worked on storyboard artist for a live-action movie, which will be released in 2021 and for Madrid 2120 as a storyboard artist, which received this year’s Goya award for best short animation.