Cartoon Characters and Their Universe: Create Another World
Putting the Characters Together: The Lineup
A course by Butch Hartman , Cartoon Artist
About the video: Putting the Characters Together: The Lineup
Overview
“In this lesson, you will combine all your characters into a final lineup to see what your "cast" looks like. I'll take this moment to explain "size comparisons": you need to check how big each character is compared to the others. It might not be obvious but the size of the character will affect the storytelling.”
In this video lesson Butch Hartman addresses the topic: Putting the Characters Together: The Lineup, 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
“Putting the Characters Together: The Lineup In our last lesson, we saw what it's like to put together a really awesome cast of supporting characters. Now, in this lesson, we're going to be putting those characters together in a character lineup. Let's see what they look like together. Here we go. We're going to be working on a brand new presentation. This is going to involve the character lineup and what all the sizes of the characters should be. I have a whole lineup of characters created. You may have created many characters too, but you might not have all the characters drawn together. Y...”
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Course summary for: Cartoon Characters and Their Universe: Create Another World
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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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