Character Design For Animation in Illustrator

Character Design For Animation in Illustrator, available at $59.99, has an average rating of 4.7, with 32 lectures, based on 658 reviews, and has 10423 subscribers.

You will learn about You will be able to express personality with your characters, using poses with a strong line of action And you will be able to prepare your designs to be rigged in an animation software for cut out animation This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is for people interested in animation, who want to design characters and prepare them for animation It is particularly useful for This course is for people interested in animation, who want to design characters and prepare them for animation.

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Summary

Title: Character Design For Animation in Illustrator

Price: $59.99

Average Rating: 4.7

Number of Lectures: 32

Number of Published Lectures: 32

Number of Curriculum Items: 32

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 32

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

You will be able to express personality with your characters, using poses with a strong line of action
And you will be able to prepare your designs to be rigged in an animation software for cut out animation

Who Should Attend

This course is for people interested in animation, who want to design characters and prepare them for animation

Target Audiences

This course is for people interested in animation, who want to design characters and prepare them for animation

You have an idea that you want to turn into animation, and now you want to create the characters that will move the story.

How do they look? Are they friendly? Aggressive? Stubborn?

You decide your character should look friendly, great! You draw what you have in your mind and you feel proud. Good for you. But what if what you designed gets criticized and people say “With that smile, it looks naughty, not friendly”.

Why? How can you make your characters communicate the personality you intent for them?

This is where this course will help.

In here you will learn the theory behind character psychology, how to make characters with a soul, with personality.

And not only that, but you will also learn how to communicate all those feelings and emotions through your designs.

You will learn how to establish different attitudes by using different shapes, you will understand the meaning of having round features, or pointy features.

And then, after you know the theory, we will practice the whole process of putting the character you have in your mind into paper, by first establishing a strong pose that communicates your character’s personality.

You will learn:

How to create memorable characters
The Theory behind character psychology
4 Basic areas of personality that will make your character outstand all others
How to define attitude
The basics of concept art
Understand shapes and meaning

And then, once you have a memorable character with a strong personality, drawn on paper or on digital, what can you do with it?

Well, because this course was created with animators in mind, we added a whole section covering how to prepare your character in illustrator and make it ready for animation.

You will learn about the different angles needed to have what you need for your character, the importance of using a storyboard, and how to trace each part of the body so you have the character well connected and ready to be rigged in After Effects, or any other animation software you want.

We will dive deep, step by step in a tutorial that will guide you how to ensemble the Character Brad, part by part.

Learn how to design your characters and prepare them for animation.

Enroll now!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction to Character Design for Animation

Lecture 2: Getting the Project Files

Lecture 3: How to Create Memorable Characters

Chapter 2: Character Psychology

Lecture 1: Character Development and Psychology

Lecture 2: What grabs your character's attention?

Lecture 3: How does your character make decisions?

Lecture 4: How does your character organizes his/her world?

Lecture 5: Defining Attitude

Chapter 3: Concept Art for Character Design

Lecture 1: Shapes and Meaning

Lecture 2: Body Types

Lecture 3: Character Design in Action

Chapter 4: Explanation of a Character for Rigging

Lecture 1: Example of a Character Ready in Illustrator

Lecture 2: Body Breakdown

Lecture 3: Symmetrical Character in 5 basic views

Lecture 4: Importance of Using a Storyboard in Production

Lecture 5: Taking care of the Joints

Lecture 6: Getting Ready

Chapter 5: Tracing the Character

Lecture 1: Preparing the Frontal View

Lecture 2: Creating the Head and Neck

Lecture 3: Creating the Upper Torso

Lecture 4: Creating the Lower Torso

Lecture 5: Creating the Hips

Lecture 6: Creating the Arms

Lecture 7: Creating the Legs

Chapter 6: Setting Up for Replacement Animation

Lecture 1: Replacement Animation Explanation

Lecture 2: Creating the Hands

Lecture 3: Creating the Feet

Lecture 4: Creating the Mouths

Lecture 5: Creating the Eyes

Lecture 6: Creating the Eyebrows and Nose

Lecture 7: Exporting The Character

Lecture 8: BONUS LESSON: "What's Next?"

Instructors

2D Animation 101 Courses
Animation Courses for Beginners

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2 stars: 11 votes
3 stars: 70 votes
4 stars: 159 votes
5 stars: 396 votes

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