Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities
Key Colors
A course by Florian Satzinger , Character Designer
Joined November 2021
Joined November 2021
About the video: Key Colors
Overview
“All design planning is finished, the key colors are set, and it's all in the rough drawings. Now it's time for cleaning up and coloring the two characters.”
In this video lesson Florian Satzinger addresses the topic: Key Colors, which is part of the Domestika online course: Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities. Explore anatomy, perspective, volume, light, and shadow to bring human-like animal characters to life on the page.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Key Colors In this lesson, we will focus on key colors. Now, I will decide what colors I will use for the final cleanup, which will be done on a computer. Here, I will add the key colors to the rough designs. It is not about coloring the characters perfectly. It's placing the colors where they should appear on the characters, like the clothing they use, and what colors the props are. I've already made up my mind, and the key colors for those two characters will be yellow and black because I was thinking about it as a fighting suit. Bruce Lee used to have a yellow one with black stripes. S...”
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Course summary for: Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Florian Satzinger
A course by Florian Satzinger
Florian Satzinger is an Austria-based character designer and visual development artist. Inspired by the classic, hand-drawn Disney films of his childhood, he went on to study fine arts and animation before launching his freelance career. After building a portfolio of advertising projects, he ventured into the animation industry, creating poster and cover art for Looney Tunes Magazine. Impressed by his illustrations, the Vice President of Walt Disney International contacted him and invited him to join the development team.
During his time at Warner Bros. and Disney, Florian collaborated on some of the most iconic cartoon characters in history, including Donald and Daisy Duck, Mickey Mouse, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Sylvester. He has also worked for businesses like The Zanuck Company, ReelFX, Space Age Films, Psyop, Ravensburger North America, Facebook, Budweiser, Coca-Cola, Red Bull, and Snapchat. In addition to the art he’s created for the animation and comic-book industry, he illustrates satirical cartoon caricatures that are regularly displayed in galleries like the Caricature Museum in Krems, Austria.
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