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Character Design For Animation in Illustrator

Name: Character Design For Animation in Illustrator
Rating: 4.6 (669 reviews)

Design Memorable Character With a Strong Personality and Learn How to Prepare them for Animation

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Created by2D Animation 101 Courses

Last updated 10/2021

English

What you'll 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

Course content

6 sections • 32 lectures • 2h 14m total length

Introduction to Character Design for Animation4:26
This introduction talks about an overview of the course, and also how is it that some successful people are making a living out of this craft
Getting the Project Files0:20
This lesson provides the project files for you to follow along
How to Create Memorable Characters1:43
This lesson explains the secrets discovered in the 1930s by Walt Disney to make character memorable

Character Development and Psychology4:26
This lesson talks about the how to develop the psychology for your characters
What grabs your character's attention?3:18
This is the second area of your characters personality, to decide if it’s a Sensing or an Intuitive character.
How does your character make decisions?2:26
This is the 3rd area of personality, to decide if your character is a Thinker or a Feeler.
How does your character organizes his/her world?2:36
This is the final and 4th area of personality. To decide how organized is your character, if it's a Judger or a Perceiver
Defining Attitude1:55
This lesson talks about defining the attitude of your character

Shapes and Meaning3:40
This section talks about the different shapes and features that make a character interesting, and also how to have the correct shapes for the correct personality of your character.
Body Types3:26
This covers the different elements that influence the body of your character, the different body types.
Character Design in Action4:02
This is a little tutorial that takes you through the 4 steps of the character design process.

Example of a Character Ready in Illustrator4:08
This lesson presents you what you will be accomplishing after you finish the following tutorials
Body Breakdown4:08
This lesson goes deeper to help you understand how each part of the body is connected and used in illustrator
Symmetrical Character in 5 basic views2:11
This explains the different views of your character, frontal, side, 45, etc.
Importance of Using a Storyboard in Production3:34
This lesson answers the question many animators have when the are about to start a project: How much work will it take to produce this animation?
Taking care of the Joints2:19
This lesson was added specifically to tackle the number one problem in many of our students animations, the way the parts of the body are connected by joints.
Getting Ready4:27
This lesson wraps up this section and explains the process we will follow in the upcoming tutorials

Preparing the Frontal View1:05
This tutorial is the first of the section and tells you how to set up the image you are about to trace into different layers.
Creating the Head and Neck5:06
This lesson covers how to trace the head and neck
Creating the Upper Torso6:23
This lesson covers how to trace the upper torso
Creating the Lower Torso4:18
This lesson covers how to trace the lower torso
Creating the Hips7:35
This lesson covers how to trace the hips
Creating the Arms9:20
This lesson covers how to trace the arms
Creating the Legs9:12
This lesson covers how to trace the legs

Replacement Animation Explanation2:17
This lesson will help you understand the importance of having multiple versions of the hands, or mouth, so you can do replacement animation
Creating the Hands9:14
This lesson covers how to trace the hands
Creating the Feet5:13
This lesson covers how to trace feet
Creating the Mouths7:31
This lesson covers how to trace mouths
Creating the Eyes4:21
This lesson covers how to trace eyes
Creating the Eyebrows and Nose4:01
This lesson covers how to trace eyebrows and nose
Exporting The Character3:13
This lesson covers how export the character so you can use it inside an animation software.
BONUS LESSON: "What's Next?"2:18
This is the bonus lesson, it will show you what can you do with your new acquired skill

Requirements

You need to know how to use Adobe Illustrator

Description

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.

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Who this course is for:

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

Character Design For Animation in Illustrator

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Course content

Introduction3 lectures • 6min

Character Psychology5 lectures • 15min

Concept Art for Character Design3 lectures • 11min

Explanation of a Character for Rigging6 lectures • 21min

Tracing the Character7 lectures • 43min

Setting Up for Replacement Animation8 lectures • 38min

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