Expressive Character Creation for Animation
Design the antagonist
A course by Felipe Rodriguez , Character Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Design the antagonist
Overview
“You will learn to create a character opposite your protagonist and look for relationships of similarity or opposition between their forms. ”
In this video lesson Felipe Rodriguez addresses the topic: Design the antagonist, 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
“Design the antagonist In this lesson you will start designing your antagonist and I will tell you certain ideas to create relationship between protagonists and antagonists from the design of its forms. Let's start. Now let's start designing our antagonist, but first I wanted to show you these references. They are references that we all know, but it is important to analyze what are the design features and the contrast generated between a protagonist and an antagonist, for there is a directly close relationship between the two. In these examples that we have here, practically in all you see t...”
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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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