Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities
Lighting and Shading
A course by Florian Satzinger , Character Designer
Joined November 2021
Joined November 2021
About the video: Lighting and Shading
Overview
“To bring the atmosphere to the scene, I will now work on the lighting and shading for both the characters and the background.”
In this video lesson Florian Satzinger addresses the topic: Lighting and Shading, 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
“ Lighting and Shading Now we can start with the lighting and shading of the scenery. To me, this is one of the most interesting and fun parts of the whole process. I'm looking forward to showing you what I can do with this here. Let's start with the shading. For this, I'll create a new layer, "Shadows." I turn this layer to Multiply, and change the Opacity to something like this, 55%. For the shadows, I'll use not too dark colors, something like this brown. Shadows should be very warm and stay light. Something like this. We can still change that, but for the beginning, this is nice. I'll 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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