Class Summary

With this course, I’ll teach you how to design your own exciting creatures for animation.

We’ll be covering various topics throughout the course. We’ll start by doing some preparations before jumping into creating art. We’ll develop a story on which to base our designs. It can give us a more clear direction and also helps us to come up with visual elements.

From the story, we’ll create a mood board with inspirational images to get inspired and have a visual reference to talk about. We’re gonna do research about our creature, do studies, and I’ll talk about my study process.

We will use basic shapes to build and keep creatures simple when designing. In the following steps, we’ll add more detail and look into poses and expressions, giving character to your design. And finally, we’ll create a nice presentation so that you can use these designs in your portfolio or want to expand on this project.

Class Takeaways

• Students will be able to create and design a creature with character and personality for animation.
• Students will learn about the design process for animation.
• Students will be able to make their work presentable.

This Class Is For

• For anyone who wants to learn more about designing characters and creatures for animation.
• For those who have some background knowledge in drawing, since the class does not cover 'how to draw'.
• For people who have an interest in animation and storytelling.
• For those who already have experience and interest but want to learn more about designing animation pipelines.

Class Requirements

• In this class, Adobe Photoshop and Procreate will be used, but you can use different versions.
• For more information on Adobe Photoshop, visit here.
• For more information on Procreate, visit here.
• Students will have to purchase 'Adobe Photoshop' or other digital drawing tools. It is not included in the course package.