Expressive Character Creation for Animation
Your own story
A course by Felipe Rodriguez , Character Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Your own story
Overview
“In this lesson we will start with a list of characters, places and narrative genres. You will have to select between them randomly to get a story idea and I will show you how to collect references that will help you imagine the narrative and the characters that will make it up.”
In this video lesson Felipe Rodriguez addresses the topic: Your own story, 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
“your own story I recently started telling my own stories and there is nothing more exciting than creating your characters from scratch. You can add all the nuances you want to make it interesting. I will give you a tool to create your own story and I'll show you how to start putting together your reference mood board. Let's start. idea generator From this point you will start to create your own story. For this, together with a great friend, create this generator of ideas that can help you create the story of your final project, since, at some other time lock in which you don't know what to ...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Character Creation for Animation
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Category
3D & Animation, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting

Felipe Rodriguez
A course by Felipe Rodriguez
Felipe Rodriguez is a freelance illustrator and character designer who uses his expertise to help create animated TV series and films.
He has collaborated on a range of projects for the British Council, Storytime Magazine, and the Mexican animation studio Ánima Estudios, including two projects for Netflix: season 2 of Legend Quest and El camino de Xico. He has also had the opportunity to work with several Colombian studios like TunjaYork, Diptongo, and Mompozt.
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