Expressive Character Creation for Animation

Overview

“Here you will review technical concepts about structure and movement, but this time thought about the design of your character. I will tell you about their main shapes and how you can rotate and move them to represent different actions. ”

In this video lesson Felipe Rodriguez addresses the topic: How does your character move?, 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

“How does your character move? We will do the same exercise, but with full body photographs. Remember to exaggerate the poses a lot. This will mean that when taking them as a reference, your character can behave in a more histrionic way. Let's do it. Let's start designing the poses of the character. For that, we have our photo library again, more or less with the same dynamic, having a more or less flat and clean bottom, that allows us to visualize well the expression and trying to exaggerate a bit. I tried to take several photos that had to do with the history of our character, the poses a ...”

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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