Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
Research and Creating a Mood Board
A course by Dan Kelby , Character Designer
About the video: Research and Creating a Mood Board
Overview
“I will show you the places I go online to find my reference, and also give you some tips on the best kinds of references to find. It’s not enough to just Google the first thing we think of and use those images, you have to go deeper! Once you have your reference, I will demonstrate how to create a mood board to refer to whilst designing.”
In this video lesson Dan Kelby addresses the topic: Research and Creating a Mood Board, 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
“Now that we've written our brief for our character, it's time to get some research together. I know it's tempting to start drawing straight away, but it's important that we stop at this point We go to the internet, we find some good research, that'll only be better going forwards. In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to put together a Moveboard I'm going to show you the best sites for conducting research. Whenever I get a job from a client, i always... Head over to Google or Pinterest or another image site like the ones I'm going to show you. And just spend an hour or two gathering som...”
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Course summary for: Character Design: Develop Your Own Style
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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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