Cartoon Characters and Their Universe: Create Another World
Equipment and Inspiration
A course by Butch Hartman , Cartoon Artist
About the video: Equipment and Inspiration
Overview
“We need to prepare for the project. What’s the equipment we’re going to need? What do you work best with? Pen and ink, pastels, markers? Colored pencils or digital equipment? You need to feel comfortable with the material you’re using so that your mind is freed up to create! I'll show you here how I prepare my inspirational material.”
In this video lesson Butch Hartman addresses the topic: Equipment and Inspiration, which is part of the Domestika online course: Cartoon Characters and Their Universe: Create Another World. Build your own cartoon narrative filled with endearing characters using a combination of analogue and digital tools.
Partial transcription of the video
“Equipment and Inspiration In the last lesson, we learned all about concepts. In this lesson, we'll be going over some of the equipment I use to create my projects, as well as some of my inspirational material. When I go to create a project, I like to have a lot of stuff that I work with. We start with some traditional stuff. I come from an age before internet. I use physical materials. For example, I use different types of art pencils with different line weights. I love the lighter graphite, which is really fun. It gives you great light lines. This really heavy, thick graphite gives you som...”
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Course summary for: Cartoon Characters and Their Universe: Create Another World
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Character Design, Comic, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Butch Hartman
A course by Butch Hartman
Butch Hartman is an award-winning cartoon artist from the United States. He has been a fan of cartoons, movies, and comic books since he was a child and grew up creating stories and shooting his own movies. He later went on to study at the art school founded by Walt Disney, California Institute of Arts. After graduating, he began his career in the television animation industry, working on the 1986 version of My Little Pony.
Since then, Butch has gone on to work for studios like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network on iconic cartoons including, Tom and Jerry Kids, Droopy Master Detective, Dexter’s Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, and more. His work has received multiple Emmy Awards and he himself has been nominated for several. Butch also created his own children’s app, The Noog Network, and has written and produced live action films, including one for his famous animated show, The Fairly OddParents. He has also grown an impressive social media following with over 800,000 subscribers on YouTube and 1.7 million followers on TikTok, and he hosts his own podcast, Speech Bubble.
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