Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters
Configuring my universe
A course by Gastón Caba , Character designer and illustrator
About the video: Configuring my universe
Overview
“From some examples we will talk about the basic aspects to be taken into account a priori in the creation of the universe of the character.”
In this video lesson Gastón Caba addresses the topic: Configuring my universe, 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
“Now that we have our character ready what we are going to do is start working doing a lot of images, but before that, what are the conditions that a priori can configure our universe, to take into account later when creating these images. One of the first things that we can define with respect to the universe where going to inhabit this character is what would be the physical location, where all the action will take place and what would be time. is, what we are going to locate are the coordinates of temporary spaces, then there we should think about where this is going to happen, for exampl...”
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Course summary for: Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters
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Category
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Adobe Photoshop -
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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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