Fundamentals of Character Design

Learn Character Development, Process, Approach, Digitization and Turnarounds. Learn How to Create Iconic Characters

As a character designer, you will be responsible for exploring new ideas through characters. Your role as a designer will be to create major and incidental characters for animated television, feature films, videogames, etc. as well as possibly create characters for your own intellectual properties.

Design Amazing Characters For Manga, Anime, Animation, Gaming And More! Create Unforgettable Characters.

Master Character Design in Adobe Illustrator: From Sketch to Digital Art.

This course will aim to teach fundamentals of character and costume design for video games, breaking down a character holistically throughout the narrative, exploring who they are when the story starts, how that changes throughout their arc, and how that is reflected in the choices of clothing, hair, design and styling. We will go over designing narrative illustrations that help sell the characters, gathering photo reference and making mood boards to create an overall view of their arc and designing costuming throughout the story based on that.

Let’s go through the entire process of character design, starting all the way from fundamental anatomy to how to utilize illustration techniques to create an entire portfolio-ready character design project.

Turn the ideas in your head into compelling illustrated characters alongside character design expert Jazza!

Learn how to design monsters from the ground up! This character concept course teaches you the process of going from a sheet of brainstormed ideas to a compelling piece of digital art. Along with learning the fundamentals of monster design I'll also be focusing on teaching you my shapecarving technique. You’ll get to see how I iterate on concepts and choose specific elements to zero in on and learn why the devil is in the details. Finally, there's advice sprinkled throughout the course to help you adapt this process so you can make it your own for any concept design jobs you tackle in the industry.

Character designers are able to visually communicate so much about a character’s personality through designs that are expressive, gestural, and full of life. This course focuses on the fundamentals needed to create expressive characters and will provide you with a skill set with which you are able to create volume, dynamics and expressiveness to your character designs.