Introduction to the Creation of Cartoon Style Characters
Weight and dynamics
A course by Ed Vill , Illustrator and designer
About the video: Weight and dynamics
Overview
“An infallible trick to give weight and dynamics to your cartoons Guaranteed! ”
In this video lesson Ed Vill addresses the topic: Weight and dynamics, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to the Creation of Cartoon Style Characters. Learn the fundamental principles to create unique and extravagant characters.
Partial transcription of the video
“Now I will give one of my favorite parts of the course. The weight and the dynamics. Speaking of the dynamics, I will talk about Coyote and the Road Runner. One is persecuted, one wants to arrive and the other needs to arrive, It's quite fun and I'm going to explain it in the following way. Let's say we have the same character and will be running. This is when we give even more importance to the fact of words, to the fact of our vocabulary. How we handle vocabulary and logic cartoon. Let's say we have a figure, and the figure is running. And next I'm going to put the same figure that will a...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to the Creation of Cartoon Style Characters
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Character Design, Drawing, Traditional illustration

Ed Vill
A course by Ed Vill
Ed Vill was born in Caracas (Venezuela), although he has been living in Mexico since 2016. He considers himself a cartoon enthusiast and has turned his passion into a profession by creating custom cartoon characters.
This multidisciplinary illustrator and designer has also worked as a copywriter and photographer for print media, recorded albums, created radio and television shows, and launched his own design brand: EdVill. Currently, he illustrates children's books and teaches character creation workshops for children and adults.
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