Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters

Pressure to the character

A course by Gastón Caba , Character designer and illustrator

Character designer and illustrator. Calahorra, Spain.
Joined January 2017
100% positive reviews (219)
2,831 students
Audio: Spanish
Spanish · English · Portuguese

About the video: Pressure to the character

Overview

“We will share McKee's idea of how the character is constructed by subjecting it to pressure.”

In this video lesson Gastón Caba addresses the topic: Pressure to 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

“When I started to get interested in writing my own scripts And to generate stories a little more complex I started looking for some books that could help me And among those books I found one That has some concepts, very interesting The book is called "the script", by Robert Maqui One of the concepts that I am interested in telling you Of those that are included in this book The concept of pressure on the character Maqui works on the idea of the character in front of the characterization What he says is that, we are going to find With a character that has a certain physiognomy Or a certain w...”

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Course summary for: Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters

  • Level: Beginner
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    Adobe Photoshop
  • Areas

    Character Design, Creativity

Gastón Caba

Gastón Caba
A course by Gastón Caba

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Character designer and illustrator

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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Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters. Illustration course by Gastón Caba

Creative Techniques for Design and Illustration of Characters

A course by Gastón Caba
Character designer and illustrator. Calahorra, Spain.
Joined January 2017
  • 100% positive reviews (219)
  • 2,831 students