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The Ultimate 2D Game Character Design & Animation Course (Udemy.com)

Learn how to design and animate a character in Photoshop that can stand up as professional work

Created by: Jaysen Batchelor

Last updated November 2016

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What you will learn

  • Design your own character
  • Build your character in Photoshop
  • Animate your character for a 2D game

How it compares

Against the other 281 rated Udemy courses in Game Development Fundamentals on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 57% of them
  • Reviews1,849#16 of 282 by number of reviews
  • Length5.4 hoursshorter than 64% of them
  • Last updatedNovember 2016earlier than 95% of them

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Course Description

This course was last updated on 11/1/16

Join over 7,000 learning students and begin designing game characters and animation today!

Looking to start creating professional game graphics and animations? Or maybe you’re on a quest to start making money as a game graphic designer? In any case you’ve come to the right place.

The Ultimate Character Design and Animation for 2D Games course will show you how to create high quality stylized characters and animations for games that will stand up as professional work. The techniques taught in this course can be translated into just about any asset creation for games. This course will enhance or give you skills in the world of digital art creation - or your money back!

The course is your track to building amazing attractive character animations and ultimately - make you money! Whether for your own games or for other peoples projects.

This course will take you from having little knowledge in Photoshop to creating professional characters and animations in as little as 1 week.

So what else is in it for you?

You Design and Build Two Different Characters!

You’ll gain instant access to all four sections of the course including the bonus section where I show you where and how to find jobs creating digital art work that you can do from anywhere in the world. You’ll also gain access to all of my Photoshop files and sprite sheets that I create though out the for you to use how ever you like. These assets can be used in your own games or just to study and trace over.

The course is setup to quickly take you through step by step, the process of creating a digital character and animating them in Photoshop. It will equip you with the knowledge to create stunning designs and animations for 2d games.

Don’t believe me? I offer you a full money back guarantee within the first 30 days of purchasing the course.

Here’s what you get with the course:

You’ll get access to the four sections of the course that will show you how I create professional digital backgrounds and also teaches you where you can find clients. The course is supported with over 4.5 hours of clear content that I walk you through each step of the way.

All at your fingers tips instantly.

  • The course starts with the basics. For those of you that have never used Photoshop I’ll walk you through the basic tools we’ll be using.

  • Next I’ll show you how I create my thumbnails and where I go for inspiration.

  • Once you’ve chosen a thumbnail we’ll design each individual aspect of the character through multiple sketches.

  • At this point you’ll be ready to dive right in and start building the individual components that will make up your character! In this course we will be creating two different characters and animating one of them!

  • Next we can create our sprite sheet and prep it in unity for animation.

Over the 5 chapters you will learn:

  • Photoshop basics

  • The design process

  • Building your character assets

  • Sprite sheet creation

  • Animation Cycles

  • how to find jobs creating digital artwork

What else will you get?

- Personal contact with me, the course tutor

- Lifetime access to course materials

- Understanding of how professional digital artwork is designed, created, and organized layer by layer

- Bonus section on how to become a freelancer

This all comes under one convenient easy to use platform. Plus you will get fast, friendly, responsive support on the Udemy Q&A section of the course.

I will be here for you every step of the way!

So what are you waiting for? Sign up now to get your free bonus section and start building to day!

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Instructor Details

Jaysen Batchelor

At the age of 17 I began a 6th month internship with an animation studio out of Utah. After my internship was up, I was hired on to build backgrounds and to design props and characters for animation projects. I then began to do my own freelance work on the side through networking and using online freelancing sites. Now I work as a freelance Illustrator and designer working on my own time from where ever I want.

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Reviews

4.6

1,849 ratings on Udemy

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By Zeynep Olçaylı on 2/28/2023

When I started this course, I didn't know anything about photoshop. I think it is a good introductory course for total beginners who have no idea where to start to make a character. I've learnt a lot of things such as making a character, making a animation cycle, animating and exporting to unity. The instructor also gives us info about where to use the info we've learnt. Generally it's a 5/5 course. Would suggest it to anyone who wants to start learning photoshop.

By Orestis Hatzis on 10/24/2020

Really great lesson, definitely learned new stuff but i kinda hoped it would be more thorough with explaining animation. I would recommend it to others for an intro

By Wo0bo23go2 on 9/19/2020

Need the latest version of Photoshop

By Maurice Hurlock on 9/15/2020

Very informative for the beginners.

By Viraaj Ghosh on 8/25/2020

It was a pretty good course and helped a lot

By Mark Almeida on 8/21/2020

I had high hopes for this course because of the reviews and the introduction. But now almost halfway through, i'm thoroughly disappointed. Here's why :
- As a student, I want to know WHY something is done and not just how. For example if an instructor says Draw this line here or shade this part here, it doesn't help me one bit because i'm not going to be drawing this particular character/piece in my own projects.
- There's not much instructing. It's more of 'follow what I do'. Sure you end up with a decent result because you're following whatever the instructor is doing and put in your own small changes and feel a sense of accomplishment. But when it comes to moving on to your own work, there's really no content here with how to start.
If you're someone who knows the hows and whys of drawing, then I don't see how this course will be helpful even to you. It's more of a 'heres how to create these 2 characters and learn how to animate them'.
I've requested for a refund as this was super misleading and i'm surprised this course has high ratings.
The instructor himself is really talented. His personal artwork is on a next level. But that doesn't mean he's a good instructor.
I really hope other art courses here are actually TAUGHT and not just another 'imitate me' class.

By Sarvesh Kesharwani on 8/20/2020

Please make courses on different parts of game design and specially one detailed course on color theory and shapes. And thanx for these amazing courses.

By Derek Kindler on 8/15/2020

Very personable and informative, already completed the 2d sprite creation course and learned so much from it, making me that much more excited to complete this one

By louise collins on 8/6/2020

Excellent !

By William Fernandes Palmeira Alves on 8/2/2020

Funciona bem para entender os princpios bsicos do photoshop e design de personagens. Eu achei este curso til para mim.
Works well to understand the basic principles for the photoshop and character design. I found this course helpful for me.

By Peter Kellagher on 7/25/2020

It gives me an idea for the production

By Ryan Daly on 7/23/2020

Yeah, it's outdated at this point, but I'd be lying if I said i didn't learn what I came for. Thanks, man you're great.

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