Design and Creation of Characters
Potato method
A course by Juan Carlos Paz Gómez , Illustrator and adventurer discover monsters
About the video: Potato method
Overview
“The time has come to teach you a little trick, which will help us to go faster when creating many different characters. It's very simple. You'll see what fun! ”
In this video lesson Juan Carlos Paz Gómez addresses the topic: Potato method, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design and Creation of Characters. Design a family of characters in an easy way.
Partial transcription of the video
“Ok now we are going to go with the method [potator], what we are going to do is going to be a very easy and fun way you will see we will develop as a kind of template in the that using a base of the color of the flesh of our characters and different eyes, mouths and noses we will be able to develop a huge amount of different characters , so let's go to start. The method [potator], I think is pretty well understood by itself with the name but the method what will help us is make many characters from a very fast way and all with a very similar style that in the end was where this briefing tak...”
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Course summary for: Design and Creation of Characters
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Category
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Areas
3D Character Design, 3D Design, Character Design, Digital Illustration

Juan Carlos Paz Gómez
A course by Juan Carlos Paz Gómez
Juan Carlos Paz Gómez (Bakea) is an art director, illustrator and freelance sculptor who has worked with the best advertising agencies in Spain.
Overnight, this creative illustrator left the world of advertising to devote himself to illustration, currently working as a freelance advertising illustrator. The original work of Juan Carlos is composed of countless charming illustrated monsters that, superimposed on real photographs, give life to the strange fauna inhabiting Bakelanasland, the planet that is in the head of this artist.
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- Audio: Spanish
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- Level: Beginner
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