Design of Characters for Video Games and Apps

Overview

“We continue the work of deconstructing our sketches in simple ways.”

In this video lesson Nicolas Castro addresses the topic: Volúmenes y formas II, 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

“For this exercise, we will begin to sharpen our observation. We choose a character to start. We place it on the canvas to make us comfortable, we lower the opacity to work on it and in a new layer, we will begin to draw, to use basic forms, the volumes we were talking about, as if we had lenses that do not allow us to see with x-rays Through the body of our character. The objective is to travel part by part the structure of the drawing and identify essential areas where we should put a volume to create a kind of skeleton Basic geometry forming. Let's finish tracing these forms to be able to...”

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

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (119)
• 2242 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