Design of Characters for Video Games and Apps

Overview

“We will talk about the importance of colors to communicate sensations. We will study their psychology and the power they have when we apply them. Also, I will show you which technique I usually use to generate an easy and functional color palette that gives very good results.”

In this video lesson Nicolas Castro addresses the topic: Paleta de color, 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'll talk a little about psychology and the color palette in the characters. We will see how colors mark different environments and mark, therefore, different attitudes when designing them. Color theory is a very broad topic. to cover it in one lesson. And since the course is focused on character design, we will only see it from the psychological plane and I will show you my way of using it when applying it in my illustrations. The color palette, like a good silhouette, It will generate a more immediate visual identification with the characters. It is for this reason that by putting certai...”

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

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (119)
• 2232 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