Cartoon Characters and Their Universe: Create Another World
Lead Characters 2
A course by Butch Hartman , Cartoon Artist
About the video: Lead Characters 2
Overview
“We'll continue now with our other lead characters. You'll see how you can improve the drawing as you start polishing details. Remember that these characters can always evolve and improve the more you draw them. It's their essence that you need to capture in this initial stage.”
In this video lesson Butch Hartman addresses the topic: Lead Characters 2, 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 Let's bring back the other characters. Let's bring back the big alien. Let's get rid of our Zoop now. Say bye to Zoop. Bye Zoop! Now we have our big alien. Let's switch to his layer. Our big, friendly alien, who's going to be a pal of the grumpy alien. Let's get this one going. I'm going to drop the opacity of his layer, which we already learned. I'm going to grab another layer and put it over him. I like the size of his head, but I'm going to make his head bigger. Also, I'm going to drop his layer down a bit. I'm going to move him, right there. I used the arrow key. It goes...”
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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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