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Believable Character Design
Believable Character Design
What you’ll learn
- Shortcuts for proportions and perspective
- How to use references to your advantage
- Conveying personality at a glance
- Exploiting shape language and archetypes
- Ramping up readability with strong silhouettes
Make Audiences Believe In Your Characters
Do your characters feel like living, breathing people? Viewers (and clients!) need to believe in your characters to connect with them. In this course, Mooncolony Art Director Alex Pascenko (@alexpascenko) will show you how to make that happen.
Gain Industry Skills That Clients Look For
Alex has spent over 15 years creating awesome characters for games and collectibles. Whether you’re creating concept art, illustration, splash art, or key art, character design is an essential skill in the games industry. Alex will tell you how to avoid his early-career mistakes, and master the fundamentals of character design – no matter your art style 💪
Learn Character Design From a Pro
This is a unique opportunity to see how a top-level artist creates compelling designs, from start to finish. This course includes full videos of Alex’s warm-up sketches, reference studies and perspective drawings, as well as a speed painting of three unique characters 🎨
Your next adventure awaits. Are you in?
Requirements
- Drawing tablet and stylus
- Painting software of your choice, such as Photoshop, Procreate or Clip Studio Paint
- Basic understanding of your chosen software
- Basic drawing skills, with some understanding of art fundamentals
- A desire to learn!
Lessons and details
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Get Alex’s method for nailing human proportions, and watch him flesh out a character.
Chapter 1
Learn how to convincingly pose figures in space, with the help of Alex’s hacks.
Chapter 1
Find out how to pick the right photo references and use them to your advantage.
Chapter 1
Understand how different character archetypes can convey emotion and personality.
Chapter 1
Learn how to design a strong, readable character that’s instantly recognizable.
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Watch Alex craft three unique characters from start to finish, as he narrates his process.
Meet your mentor
Before he touched down at Mooncolony as an Art Director, Alex Pascenko (@alexpascenko) already had over a decade of professional character design experience. Eight of those years were spent in the collectibles industry, creating concept art for the likes of Star Wars, Street Fighter and Spider-Man. Here at Mooncolony, Alex has brought his talents to iconic game universes, including Fortnite, Diablo IV, and Legendary: Game of Heroes. A true master of his craft, Alex is well-known for making character designs full of soul and personality. He is based in Berlin and speaks English, German and Russian.
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