Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Push it Until it Breaks! 1
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Push it Until it Breaks! 1
Overview
“A great mentor once told me: “Animation is Exaggeration” During this lesson I will show you how I put this mantra into practise by taking a basic sketch and making it more exciting. ”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Push it Until it Breaks! 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Design: Develop Your Own Style. Learn how to play with the proportions, shapes, and expressions of your protagonists using professional stylistic techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Push it Until it Breaks! An important question we can ask ourselves as designers is, "What if?" What if I change my character's height? What if I give them a different haircut or change their costume? It's about improving the character through gradual little steps. This lesson shows what happens when we do that. I'll take one of my characters and draw over it a bit. I'll push it with the Liquify tool. Finally, I'll create the character's better version than I started with. Let's take a look. As designers it's important for us to get used to the idea of not settling on our first sketch or ou...”
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Course summary for: Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Dan Kelby
A course by Dan Kelby
Dan Kelby is a freelance character designer from England who specializes in designing for the animation industry. He grew up in a creative family, inspired by cartoons and movies from the 80s and 90s, and eventually went on to study animation at Norwich University of Arts. After graduating, he worked as a graphic designer for a number of years before rediscovering his love of drawing and becoming a full-time freelance character designer in 2016.
Since then, Dan has worked for clients including Netflix, Disney Television Animation, and Cartoon Network. He also teaches classes part-time at his former university to help others improve their drawing.
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