Cartoon Characters and Their Universe: Create Another World
Lead Characters 1
A course by Butch Hartman , Cartoon Artist
About the video: Lead Characters 1
Overview
“Based on our first sketches, I will start to finalize my lead characters. For this step, you can either use your sketches as a reference and draw your characters on Procreate, or you can take a photo of the sketch and import it. Once there, we can start polishing our characters.”
In this video lesson Butch Hartman addresses the topic: Lead Characters 1, 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
“Lead Characters We just finished our first sketches, which was a lot of fun, I had a great time designing aliens, putting things down on paper. I hope you did too, and you're still practicing. Keep those concepts rolling. For this lesson, we're going to get into finalizing our lead characters because it does come down to finalizing something. You've got to finally reach a point in your concept... These are the characters. This is what they look like. What they will always look like. They might change, here and there. Some characters on TV shows start one way and slightly change over the yea...”
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Course summary for: Cartoon Characters and Their Universe: Create Another World
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Category
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Areas
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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