Expressive Character Creation for Animation

Overview

“Our characters are actors who will play a role in front of the viewer to make them feel their own emotions. A first step for this is to create their own narrative, here I will talk about the questions you can ask yourself to understand their background and behavior.”

In this video lesson Felipe Rodriguez addresses the topic: Devise the character 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Character Creation for Animation . Illustrate unforgettable characters based on a narrative idea and bring them to life through their expressions and poses.

Partial transcription of the video

“devise the character For this first practice what I will do is bring textures to build a character, just thinking about your concept, focusing only on the external aspects what makes up the character. I'll take a very random idea. I'm going to make a rock star. I will focus on finding textures that help me to represent those elements, like the costumes and the superficiality of the character. I'm going to do it and I'll tell you what my way of thinking is while I'm doing it. The first thing I will do is bring a skin texture for the uncovered parts of our character. I will also bring a leath...”

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Course summary for: Expressive Character Creation for Animation

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (59)
• 1297 students
• 5 units
• 20 lessons (5h 11m)
• 25 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation, Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Character Design, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting