YouTuber Istebrak hosts character design challenges on her YouTube account. Flexing that creativity muscles will make it grow stronger, and that means even cooler characters in your future work. So here’s another video showing you how yet another artist builds characters from scratch.
Nothing will help you get better at character design than designing characters (like every day). She’s pulled these tips from some online courses she watched in an effort to improve her own character design efforts. This video from JelArts showcases 6 tips and tricks that you can use to help you design characters. We want the audience to read each character instantly.” The Character Designs Reddit ForumĬurious about what other artists are doing? Looking for feedback on your own designs? Have questions about the process or the craft? Looking for inspiration or collaboration opportunities? Look no further than the Character Designs forum on Reddit. “Even though you might not notice, each character has a theme when it appears on the screen.
It’s full of helpful tips for you to pull from. This post on character design from the talented folks at Pixar gives you an inside look into their character creation process. We haven’t met a person who doesn’t appreciate at least one Pixar film (if not, you know, all of them). You want to make sure they look like the same character every time! Pixar Character Design Tips Turnaround sheets are important if you’re going to be free-hand drawing characters over and over from different angles and positions. Another Character Turnaround Sheet Tutorialĭidn’t know what Turnaround sheet was? No problem, here’s another tutorial to help you understand the how-to behind the sheet. The character featured in the video was designed for a highly stylized world–sometimes designing a character when the theme is set in stone can be just as challenging as not having anything to work from.
This video from YouTuber CG Cookie Concept shows you how to design a character when your client knows what they want. How do you create characters when you don’t have much to go on? If your client hasn’t given you much background or ideas to work with, how do you even begin designing a character? How to Create a Stylized Character Turnaround Sheet This video is another look at the character design process. If you want to see how another artist takes a concept through to completion, this is a great video for you. This tutorial walks you through how one artist developed his concept for a “ crossbow archer.” He starts with his idea, he shows his sketches, and he walks you through everything from form to color palette, to putting it all together at the end.
IGN’s Top 100 Game Devs: Advice – How to Get Startedĭesigning Characters Character Design–Conceptualizing Tutorial.Indie Developers Talk About the Industry.How the Inventor of Mario Designs a Game.What New Game Developers are Doing Wrong.