Character Design: Illustrate an Expressive Creature
Final Touches 1
A course by Sam Nassour , Art Director and Visual Development Artist
Joined September 2020
Joined September 2020
About the video: Final Touches 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how sometimes our character requires a bit of changes or refinements in facial expressions or proportions. Let's see how this works!”
In this video lesson Sam Nassour addresses the topic: Final Touches 1, 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
“Final Touches In this lesson I'll show that sometimes the character might require additional fixes and refinements to the overall proportions and the facial expressions. Let's see how it works. Now we are at the final levels of refinement and I look at our character and I still feel that we can push and pull some proportions just to exaggerate some features and make it look more interesting and improve the pose. I like to use the Liquify tool for that. I don't recommend using it in the early stages. It's best to use it when you're finalizing your design, so you don't get distracted and you ...”
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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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