Character Design: Illustrate an Expressive Creature
About Me
A course by Sam Nassour , Art Director and Visual Development Artist
Joined September 2020
Joined September 2020
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson I will tell you a little bit about myself and my beginnings as an artist and my career so far in the animation and games industries.”
In this video lesson Sam Nassour addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Design: Illustrate an Expressive Creature. Learn how to design an animal-based character full of emotion and personality in Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“About Me Hi, I'm Sam Nassour, and I'm an art director and a concept artist in animation and games industries. I've always enjoyed drawing and creating characters from an early age, I got really inspired by watching animation movies, and I wanted to pursue a career in this field. I decided to study architecture at college. There were no animation schools then, so I wanted to pursue something that was creative. Joining architecture, I learned a lot about design language and creating 3D spaces, and that was exciting and interesting, but after graduating, I wanted to pursue what I love doing th...”
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Course summary for: Character Design: Illustrate an Expressive Creature
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Sam Nassour
A course by Sam Nassour
Sam Nassour is an art director and visual development artist in the animation and video game industry. Although Sam enjoyed drawing since a young child, he decided to study architecture at university, which paved new creative paths in the fields of design language and 3D space creation. Later on, he decided to pursue his real passion: creating visual characters and stories in the animation and entertainment industry.
He finds his inspiration in nature and the animal kingdom, which can always be found in his designs; whether it be through shapes, colors, or designs. Sam has worked with several major animation studios around the world, including Netflix Animation and Dreamworks TV. He is currently working on a new game project with Rovio.
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