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
“One of the most important questions we can ask ourselves as designers is the question, what if? What happens if I change my character's height? What happens if I give them different haircut, if I change their costume? It's all about improving the character through gradual little steps. In this lesson, I'm going to show you what happens when we do that. I'm going to take one of my characters and I'm going to draw over it a bit. I'm going to push it around with the liquify tool. And at the end of the lesson, I'm going to come up with a much better version of the character than I started with....”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
-
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.
- 100% positive reviews (143)
- 4,620 students
- 31 lessons (7h 59m)
- 22 additional resources (6 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English, Italian, Portuguese
- English · Spanish · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
Adobe Photoshop
