Retro Character Design for Animation

Overview

“In this lesson I will take the same character that we have worked with in the previous units and adapt it, so that it no longer belongs to the 40's, but seems to be taken from the 50's or 60's. ”

In this video lesson Venturia Animation Studios addresses the topic: Let's take your character to "modernity." From the 40's to the 50's-60'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

“This time travel adventure takes us to the 50s and 60s with our knight character. We'll make it abstract and graphic. focusing on primary shapes and abstraction. Our character journeyed from the 20s to the 40s. and now we're leaping into the 50s and 60s era. With this. we will have a lot of fun as it is a leap to another dimension. a dimension less. because here everything is more flat and graphic. more abstract. We continue to consider our main shapes. focusing on the revisiting our hand placements and viewing everything more from a directional angle. The direction of where the shapes are ...”

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Course summary for: Retro Character Design for Animation

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (254)
• 4652 students
• 6 units
• 18 lessons (2h 1m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation, Illustration

• Areas

  2D Animation, 3D Character Design, Animation