Expressive Character Creation for Animation

Overview

“Each animated series or movie has features that make it unique and this is due to a series of narrative and design rules that its creators have thought of. Once you have the final design of your protagonist I will show you how you can establish these rules so that everything you design for your project fits into a single style. ”

In this video lesson Felipe Rodriguez addresses the topic: The rules of your universe, 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

“The rules of your universe The universe of a series or movie is determined by certain rules that its directors determined so that everything works consistently. In this lesson I will give you some examples and we will talk about this decision making for your project. We'll start by taking "Wolfwalkers" as an example, a film from the Irish studio Cartoon Saloon. It's very interesting because of how they made style decisions to create a totally different movie. In fact, here we can see all that first exploratory phase in which you have already worked, in which many concepts are made with diff...”

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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