About this course: In this course you will explore concepts and approaches involved in creating successful character designs that can be applied to video games. Following a first week delving into some foundational concepts for successful character design, each of the remaining three weeks are structured as a "master class" where you will observe three professional character designers at work in the studio: Andy Ristaino (Adventure Time), Jacky Ke Jiang (Journey), and Robertryan Cory (SpongeBob SquarePants). Each designer will take on two different design challenges on the fly and address the various issues in designing characters for games, such as movement, expression, and technical limitations. At the end of each week you will have an opportunity to try out some of the concepts from that week's lesson on characters of your own design. This is a fun and engaging class especially useful for students interested in animation in film and TV as well as games, and is suitable for students of any drawing ability.
Taught by: Fran Krause, Faculty, Character Animation
School of Film/Video
| Basic Info | Course 4 of 5 in the Game Design: Art and Concepts Specialization |
| Commitment | 4 Weeks, 4 - 6 hours per week |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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- Video: Welcome
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: About this Course
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: An Important Question
- Вопрос для обсуждения: Choose Your Own Character
- Video: Density
- Video: Mood & Story
- Video: Proportion
- Video: Week 1 Homework
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Introducing Andy Ristaino
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Resource: Andy's drawings
- Video: Drawing the Explorer
- Video: Refining the Explorer
- Video: Drawing the Alien
- Video: Refining the Alien
- Video: Week 2 Homework
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Introducing Jacky Ke Jiang
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Resource: Jacky's drawings
- Video: 2D Ink Drawing
- Video: 2D Tablet Drawing
- Video: 3D Modeling
- Video: Week 3 Homework
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Introducing Robertryan Cory
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Resource: Robertryan's drawings
- Video: Drawing the Pig
- Video: Refining the Pig
- Video: Drawing the Sheep
- Video: Refining the Sheep, Part 1
- Video: Refining the Sheep, Part 2
- Video: Working in Animation
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Introducing Robertryan Cory (again)
- Video: Robertryan Studio Follow-Up
- Video: Week 4 Homework
- Материал для самостоятельного изучения: Course Credits
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This course expanded my mind into creating a character inspired by surroundings. I have designed characters before in class but this was the next level i needed!
I liked this course and I really enjoyed the assignments which were creative and exiting. Despite the fact that course is quite simple, for the beginners I had a lot of pleasure out of it!
Nice use of iteration to push your ideas of who or what a character should or could look like.
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Excellent course! I just have no words to explain how much I've learned here. Of course it's just the beginning and we should keep practising a lot after this course, but it's definitely be kept as reference for future projects.