Drawing Animal Characters with Human Personalities
Closing Edits
A course by Florian Satzinger , Character Designer
Joined November 2021
Joined November 2021
About the video: Closing Edits
Overview
“This is the absolute final step in the process: reviewing the work, playing with the image saturation and format/size a little, and juxtaposing the final result with the early rough designs. And voilà, we're finished! ”
In this video lesson Florian Satzinger addresses the topic: Closing Edits, 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
“ Closing Edits Here we are, the closing edits, the last lesson of this course. Let's do it. We have finished, but let me try something just to do the last edits. Probably there aren't any but I want to check everything. What I want to try is another mist layer or a fog layer, which will appear between the characters in the front and the house which you can see on the horizon, so somewhere in between. I'll add a new layer. Let's see if this works. I'll change the Opacity to 58%, and use a warm gray for this, and paint it between the characters in the front and the house in the back. I'll ad...”
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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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