Design of Characters for Video Games and Apps

Overview

“Making use of the premise presented by Austin Kleon and using the matrix method developed by Hiroyoshi Tsukamoto as a tool, we will begin to turn ideas into possible characters.”

In this video lesson Nicolas Castro addresses the topic: Robando como artistas, 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

“In this lesson we will take a little the concept that we previously saw about what it is to steal as an artist. We have the premise that there is no anything original in the universe, everything is a mixture of images and objects, and of things, animals, icons that are already established in reality. The method that I will use is known as the matrix that has worked a lot when I have some type of artistic block, when I want to face a character without have a "brief" or a script that I feel the download. This method was devised by a Japanese, Hiroyoshi Tsukamoto, who is a character designer a...”

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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