Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities
Creating the Scenery
A course by Florian Satzinger , Character Designer
Joined November 2021
Joined November 2021
About the video: Creating the Scenery
Overview
“It's time to work on the scenery! I will add some simple elements to the background to get a feeling for the space around the characters.”
In this video lesson Florian Satzinger addresses the topic: Creating the Scenery, 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
“ Creating the Scenery In this lesson, I'll design the scenery around and behind the characters. Let's do it. Let's go on with creating a scenery, a very simple one. I'll do a group out of the color layers. The next thing is I will make the grid visible and I will hide the sketches. The only thing which stays is the grid behind the characters so I have an idea about how the space where the characters are in is. I'll move it below the Colors. I'll hide the key colors too because they're already available in the drawings. What I'll do now is add a sky blue behind the characters. I'll create a...”
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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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