Character Design: Illustrate an Expressive Creature
General Polish 2
A course by Sam Nassour , Art Director and Visual Development Artist
Joined September 2020
Joined September 2020
About the video: General Polish 2
Overview
“In this second part of the lesson, I keep working on polishing the character details.”
In this video lesson Sam Nassour addresses the topic: General Polish 2, 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
“General Polish Again, since these details are in the shadow, I don't want a lot of contrast here. Any shading should be softer, like I mentioned previously. Let me quickly tell you what I mean. So, the actual direct light is only here affecting these areas. This is all in shadow. Don't have any hard shadows in this area. Again, I'm picking a color and I'm transitioning here up or down, and picking the darker version of it. Down and I can move also the Hue slider, giving us variety of color that we can work with. The idea here is to have more variety with your colors, but in a subtle way. I ...”
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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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