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Believable Character Design
Language
English
Subtitles
English (US), Portuguese (BR), French (FR), Spanish (LATAM)
Level
Beginner to Intermediate
Access
Lifetime
Certificate
Certificate of Completion
Teacher
Alex Pascenko
Art Director
Lessons
7
Price
$39
Overview
Level up your character designs with master artist Alex Pascenko, and make believable characters from start to finish in this online course.
Master the Fundamentals of Character Design
Ready to level up your character designs? In this course, Mooncolony Art Director Alex Pascenko (@alexpascenko) demonstrates how he creates characters with instant appeal.
Alex will guide you through:
🚀 Shortcuts for proportions and perspective
🚀 Using references to your advantage
🚀 Conveying personality
🚀 Ramping up readability, and much more!
Make Audiences Believe In Your Characters
Do your characters feel like living, breathing people? If your characters aren’t believable, viewers – and clients – won’t connect with them. Games artists need to know how to communicate a character’s personality at a glance by making intentional design choices. This course will tell you how.
Gain Industry Skills 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 art 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?
Chapter 1 - Intro
Chapter 2 - Proportions
Get Alex’s method for nailing human proportions, and watch him flesh out a character.
Chapter 3 - Perspective
Learn how to convincingly pose figures in space, with the help of Alex’s hacks.
Chapter 4 - Drawing with Reference
Find out how to pick the right photo references and use them to your advantage.
Chapter 5 - Archetypes of Characters
Understand how different character archetypes can convey emotion and personality.
Chapter 6 - Silhouettes and Shapes
Learn how to design a strong, readable character that’s instantly recognizable.
Chapter 7 - Final Character Design and Polishing
Watch Alex craft three unique characters from start to finish, as he narrates his process.
Overview
Level up your character designs with master artist Alex Pascenko, and make believable characters from start to finish in this online course.
Master the Fundamentals of Character Design
Ready to level up your character designs? In this course, Mooncolony Art Director Alex Pascenko (@alexpascenko) demonstrates how he creates characters with instant appeal.
Alex will guide you through:
🚀 Shortcuts for proportions and perspective
🚀 Using references to your advantage
🚀 Conveying personality
🚀 Ramping up readability, and much more!
Make Audiences Believe In Your Characters
Do your characters feel like living, breathing people? If your characters aren’t believable, viewers – and clients – won’t connect with them. Games artists need to know how to communicate a character’s personality at a glance by making intentional design choices. This course will tell you how.
Gain Industry Skills 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 art 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?
Meet your mentor
Alex Pascenko
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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