Character Design For Animation in Illustrator (Udemy.com)

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

( 153 Reviews )

Created by: 2D Animation 101 Courses

Produced in 2018

What you will 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

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Course 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 characters personality.

You will learn:

How to create memorable charactersThe Theory behind character psychology4 Basic areas of personality that will make your character outstand all othersHow to define attitudeThe basics of concept artUnderstand 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

Time: 2h

Instructor Details

2D Animation 101 Courses

4.5 Rating
153 Reviews

With a background of 10 years in the film industry at Autumn Leave Films, and with over 30 short films produced to this date, we are a group of animators who love to share everything we know about animation, from pre-production, animation, to post production.
Our aim is to equip future animators with all the necessary techniques and tips to help them do better projects. Our courses will help beginners along with intermediate users.
We have helped more than 54,000+ students to discover techniques and all the knowledge they need to start animating their projects.

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By Skunk Ink on 11/7/2020

Easy to follow and answered a lot of questions I had about drawing in illustrator and how it works together with animation setup.

By Nathalie Nijsse on 9/14/2020

Leuke cursus, veel geleerd!

By Kayla Crawford on 9/1/2020

The overall techniques were good and very helpful. The steps were easy to follow. However, I feel like the course could be a lot shorter if there wasn't so much reference back and forth between the lessons.

By Loc Tran on 8/24/2020

great course, really enjoyed it, simple and practical

By Kester Elliott on 8/15/2020

I found this course helpful in my endeavor to use illustrator and after effects to animate. I now have a greater appreciation for the skills/process needed to prep a drawing in Illustrator. At the end suggested courses were recommended for further progress this was greatly appreciated.

By Rae McKinlay on 7/13/2020

A very good match.

By Lisa Fuller on 5/21/2020

yes. worth it.

By Jovy joyson on 5/19/2020

that was fun and Amazing Start Thank you

By Olga Onnesepp on 5/6/2020

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.

By Amanda Felbermayer on 4/27/2020

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

By Student Student on 4/22/2020

Thanks! I would like to see how this method would work with the next step going into animating with an Adobe product. I bought the whole suite for a year & now that I have made a character I want to continue to use the programs I've already paid for. 5 stars. Great and easy to understand & follow along.

By shrey sachan on 4/15/2020