Description
ONLINE ILLUSTRATION || Vis Dev & Character Design || WORKSHOP with Justine King.
Content Summary
Hi I’m a filmmaker, character designer, and artist based in Los Angeles.
I make animated films, music videos, comics, children’s books, and character design works for feature films.
This workshop will cover all the visual development process in making an animated film, especially focusing on character design fundamentals, and how to create a character design portfolio.
Day 1 – Introduction
Background, bio, my art journey.
Process of making an indie film.
Intro to Visual Development: Characters, Costumes, Props, Environment, Sets, Color script, etc.
Intro to Character Design: cartoon, comics, anime, 3D & 2D, stop motion
Questions
Break
Developing a project. How to generate ideas. Story (Original or book).
Warm-up Demo – generating ideas and designs, coming up from scratch
Day 2 – Character Design: Visual
Design Fundamentals: Shapes, colors, silhouette, anatomy, proportions, line of action.
Costume Design: texture, fabric, etc.
Other visual design elements for your character: props, etc.
Questions
Break
Demo – Polishing designs with colors
Assignment/Work review
Day 3 – Character Design: Story
Significance of Storytelling: Showing personality through designs, Expression Sheet, Pose sheet, Story moment drawings (interaction with others)
Tips on improving character design: life drawing and sketching
Demo – Story moment drawing with our characters
Break
Review: all character design fundamentals
Bringing design to production: turnarounds, reference, animation
Character design in other media: games, children’s books, manga.
Questions
Portfolio Review
Recommended material:
Laptop and tablet with Photoshop, Procreate or similar drawing apps.
Traditional is welcome! As long as you have a pencil, a pen, tools for coloring, and a scanner.
*Frequent questions:
What happens if I can’t see the classes live one day?
• No problem. All classes are live but will also be recorded and posted on our platform. So you can see them whenever you want throughout the duration of the course. This means that if you cannot attend your class live at the stipulated time, you will be able to see them on the platform until the end of the course. These video-classes, 1080p, posted on the platform can be viewed unlimitedly during the duration of the course but cannot be copied or downloaded. Class recorded can also be viewed for 6 months once the course is over.
When can I see the classes I did not attend live?
• Access to the virtual platform where you can consult all the information or documentation of the course, access all the classes that have already been taught or the proposed exercises.
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