Character Design: Illustrate an Expressive Creature
Adding a Background 3
A course by Sam Nassour , Art Director and Visual Development Artist
Joined September 2020
Joined September 2020
About the video: Adding a Background 3
Overview
“Last video of this lesson, where I apply the final tweakes to the background.”
In this video lesson Sam Nassour addresses the topic: Adding a Background 3, 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
“Adding a Background Tweaking the character just very slightly, kind of improving the contrast between him and the background. You can treat the whole thing as one painting. If you realize you must tweak something in the character, that's fine. You don't to have to stick with what you've got. Keep it that way, you can do some changes based on what choices you make for the background. So let's get back to our background here quickly and continue painting. I'm erasing a little bit from the light from this layer, so kind of create the feel of some grass, something like small, tiny blades of gra...”
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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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