Character Creation for Animation: Shapes, Color, and Expression
What We Will Do in the Course?
A course by Laura Ewing Ferrer , Character Designer and Storyboarder
About the video: What We Will Do in the Course?
Overview
“I will show you how I develop a character using different drawing techniques I have picked up along the way. Your assignment will be to create a character based on your own brief and time period. We will go over the importance of shapes, volume, weight, balance, and expressions. I will show you what a character turnaround looks like and give you advice on how to present your work to clients. Character designers are needed in all sorts of projects. Clients may need to prepare a brief for investors or present their art department with a clear idea for them to develop it further. Depending on the project you may find an established design and characters. Your job then is to add to it. Other times you are able to develop it from scratch. Every job is different and requires a different approach. ”
In this video lesson Laura Ewing Ferrer addresses the topic: What We Will Do in the Course?, 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
“WHAT WE WILL DO ON THE COURSE In this lesson, we'll talk about everything we'll learn here and the different techniques I've learned. You will have to create a character with your own brief and time period. We'll go over the importance of shapes, volume, weight, balance and expression. I will show you what a turnaround is and how to present your work. There are so many instances where character designers are needed for every kind of project. You have people up in marketing that need visuals to sell higher up. You need storyboarders and character designers for any sort of project to do all t...”
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Course summary for: Character Creation for Animation: Shapes, Color, and Expression
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Category
3D & Animation, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Animation, Character Animation, Character Design, Drawing
Laura Ewing Ferrer
A course by Laura Ewing Ferrer
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 a storyboarding project 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.
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