Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters
Course final project
A course by Gastón Caba , Character designer and illustrator
About the final project for: Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters
Character design: create a narrative universe
“In this video I will make a brief review of everything we saw during the course. Remember to share all the stages of work in the forum and upload your final project once you have a series of finished images. Week by week I will be through the forum reviewing and commenting on the productions. When you finish the course, do not forget to create your final project !. It has been a pleasure to share this time with you :) ”
Partial transcription of the video
“All right, now that we finish our course, let's review a little what the concepts were and the ideas we were seeing. First I presented my work and told them a little what are my influences and we talk a little about the materials with which we made the course. Then we begin to complete our reference book and our workbook. We immediately got to work on several design options of character, then choose one with which to continue working on the course. Then we play with the design variables. And we add some elements that will work as a constructive principle Later, we configure our universe. Th...”
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Course summary for: Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Creativity
Gastón Caba
A course by Gastón Caba
Gastón Caba is an illustrator, character designer, pattern designer and teacher. He currently lives and works in the city of Quilmes, Buenos Aires. His designs and characters are internationally recognized for his cheerful and colorful style and he has worked for brands such as Adidas, Benetton, Diesel, Coca-Cola, Orange or Sony Playstation, among others.
In 2005 he created an ambitious project called Ping Pong Remix, in which he invited more than 70 artists from around the world to reinterpret his work.
From 2010 he started with his project We Love Patterns, a series of group and individual illustration courses in companies and colleges and in 2011 he joined the teaching team of Daniel Roldán's illustration department at the UBA.
Since 2015 he has collaborated in the magazine Anorak with his adorable character Round Bunny, a classic strip of four panels and in 2016 Round Bunny became the protagonist of the book "Churro, the rabbit" edited by Edelvives.
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