Character Design For Animation In Illustrator

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

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.2

- 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

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

* 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.

Enroll now!

Who this course is for:

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

Course content

6 sections • 32 lectures

Introduction 3 lectures

Introduction to Character Design for Animation Preview 04:26

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 Files Preview 00:20

This lesson provides the project files for you to follow along

How to Create Memorable Characters Preview 01:43

This lesson explains the secrets discovered in the 1930s by Walt Disney to make character memorable

Character Psychology 5 lectures

Character Development and Psychology Preview 04:26

This lesson talks about the how to develop the psychology for your characters

What grabs your character's attention? Preview 03:18

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? Preview 02:26

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? Preview 02:36

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 Attitude Preview 01:55

This lesson talks about defining the attitude of your character

Concept Art for Character Design 3 lectures

Shapes and Meaning Preview 03:40

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 Types Preview 03:26

This covers the different elements that influence the body of your character, the different body types.

Character Design in Action Preview 04:02

This is a little tutorial that takes you through the 4 steps of the character design process.

Explanation of a Character for Rigging 6 lectures

Example of a Character Ready in Illustrator Preview 04:08

This lesson presents you what you will be accomplishing after you finish the following tutorials

Body Breakdown Preview 04:08

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 views Preview 02:11

This explains the different views of your character, frontal, side, 45, etc.

Importance of Using a Storyboard in Production Preview 03:34

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 Joints Preview 02:19

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.