Character Design: Illustrate an Expressive Creature
Looking for Inspiration
A course by Sam Nassour , Art Director and Visual Development Artist
Joined September 2020
Joined September 2020
About the video: Looking for Inspiration
Overview
“In this lesson, we will start our creative process, finding some inspiration for our character. Let's dive right in!”
In this video lesson Sam Nassour addresses the topic: Looking for Inspiration, 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
“Looking For Inspiration In this lesson we will start our creative process by looking for inspiration and finding the right references online. Let's dive right in. I use Pinterest a lot. I think it's one of the best ways that help you gather inspiration and organize reference images into separate boards, so you can keep that inspiration next to you while you work. I'm gonna start with my own animal character that I have in mind. If you like an animal and you wanna turn that into a character, feel free to choose that as well. It's the same process, all the steps apply to anything. Let's begin...”
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Course summary for: Character Design: Illustrate an Expressive Creature
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Category
Illustration -
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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