Design of Characters for Video Games and Apps

Overview

“We will continue to familiarize ourselves with our characters by exploring each of their angles and we will learn to draw them proportionally in their basic views.”

In this video lesson Nicolas Castro addresses the topic: Character twist, 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

“We will learn the technique to pose the character in different views. It will move in space and we will see different angles. We know how to synthesize the characters in simple geometric shapes and we create this type of skeleton that makes us understand its structure. Let's start to pose your different views and do what is known in the middle as "Model Sheet". I'll start doing the exercise with the antagonist. Having hand worked in the previous exercise, first let's sketch very roughly the frontal pose of the character. This frontal pose establishes a general base of the proportions of the...”

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

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (119)
• 2277 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