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Character Design For Animation in Illustrator

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  • Updated 10/2021
4.6
(669 Ratings)
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Course Information

Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
2 Hour(s) 14 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
2D Animation 101 Courses
Rating
4.6
(669 Ratings)
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Course Overview

Character Design For Animation in Illustrator

Design Memorable Character With a Strong Personality and Learn How to 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 Content

  • 6 section(s)
  • 32 lecture(s)
  • Section 1 Introduction
  • Section 2 Character Psychology
  • Section 3 Concept Art for Character Design
  • Section 4 Explanation of a Character for Rigging
  • Section 5 Tracing the Character
  • Section 6 Setting Up for Replacement 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

Skills covered in this course


Reviews

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    Harjit Singh
    5.0

    My God he is amazing, you will not get bored. Besides he like Forrest Gump, And thanks man Apricate your work, Don't know when i'll become animator.

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    Hashem Hashem
    5.0

    The course was amazing and super helpful. From my side, even if I am not planning to do animation but it gave me useful information on how these type of projects is processed from Start to Finish, not just begin drawing the character and all the magic will happen on the computer. Another thing, showing and explaining the process of each step into building the character was clear, easy to follow and without being boring

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    Olga Onnesepp
    3.5

    I'm new in animation and it's hard to judge the quality of the end file - I don't know yet if it will be useful in After Effects. But it was definitely easier to use the Shape Builder Tool in Illustrator 2020 than the process explained in the course. But to finish drawing the Brad, I had to finish the full Adobe Illustrator 2020 course in order to understand the process in the newer Illustrator version. Anyway, there is useful information about Illustrator fail structure.

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    Amanda Felbermayer
    5.0

    This is an excellent course. It breaks down the complexity in a simple step by step manner.

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