Design of Characters for Video Games and Apps

Overview

“Now I'm going to show you the basic materials that we are going to use throughout the course. Every character designer needs them to be able to capture their creations.”

In this video lesson Nicolas Castro addresses the topic: Materiales, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design of Characters for Video Games and Apps. Learn to create characters and show them in a style guide.

Partial transcription of the video

“I will tell you what the basic materials are what we will need for the course and what materials I personally enjoy using. The first is a sketchbook. It can be anyone but I recommend that it be a white sheet, without any stripe or anything like that. This gives us the possibility of having a clean canvas and have no margins to start creating from. And if possible that the sheets have a grammage higher than 90, 110 and others, since if we want to use materials like inks, watercolors, colored figurines and more It is good that the sheet supports this type of materials. We will also use a penc...”

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Course summary for: Design of Characters for Video Games and Apps

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (115)
• 2042 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 1m)
• 13 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  App Development, Character Design, Digital Illustration, Game Design, Video Games