Retro Character Design for Animation

Overview

“The time has come to draw! I will give you three stories or profiles so you can choose the one that catches your attention and take it as the basis for designing your first original character of the course. Through a live drawing exercise, I will take one of the three (stories or profiles) and start drawing a character, following the instructions I will give you and taking into account the theory we have seen, so far. ”

In this video lesson Venturia Animation Studios addresses the topic: Let's design your first character. 20's., which is part of the Domestika online course: Retro Character Design for Animation. Learn to design characters by recreating the styles of the golden age of animation.

Partial transcription of the video

“WE DESIGN YOUR FIRST CHARACTER YEARS 20'S Now that we've deconstructed these famous characters and so iconic and so old because it’s been a while Let's start making our first original character. The first thing we have to do is choose a story. So you don't get tangled up and so you don't get upset, I have put three stories or three themes more than everything. I have chosen these three themes to make it much faster and much more agile the process. One is Pirates. In Pirates, there may be a captain with a wooden leg, a patch, a kraken, maybe a mermaid, a parrot. The other theme are Gangsters...”

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Course summary for: Retro Character Design for Animation

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (253)
• 4563 students
• 6 units
• 18 lessons (2h 1m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation, Illustration

• Areas

  2D Animation, 3D Character Design, Animation