Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters
Choice of the character
A course by Gastón Caba , Character designer and illustrator
About the video: Choice of the character
Overview
“Let's explore some ideas to create our character. For this we will review the concept of archetype.”
In this video lesson Gastón Caba addresses the topic: Choice of the character, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters. Create a narrative universe for your characters based on your own experiences.
Partial transcription of the video
“[Music] In this first lesson we will start working. What we go To do is in principle to make several character designs. That will allow us to have options to choose the character that works better, and with that character after We will continue working throughout the course. In order to work with the characters, what will help us enough to think about why a character would be interesting. That is, in what way are we going to be able to make a character resonates in the reader or in the audience or at the hearing we have ahead. An idea that can Help for this is the idea of archetype. The arc...”
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Course summary for: Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters
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Category
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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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