Character Design for Beginners Online Short Course

Course description

This online course will show you how illustrators and animators create static or animated characters with distinctive and memorable personalities and looks, for use in comics, books, video games and animations. You will gain a fascinating insight into the process, covering drawing and design techniques as well as the commercial considerations involved in designing a winning character.

Each week you will develop your skills with practical assignments covering the main techniques of character design. You will learn by researching and analysing existing characters, and developing your own. You will approach drawing and creating your own character with fresh eyes, learning how to express the traits, personality and emotions of your new creation.

Course Outcomes:
By the end of the course, students will be able to:

• A broad understanding of character design principles
  
• Experimented with a range of techniques and drawing exercises
• Improved your skills by drawing a range of character sketches
• Created your own character and worked on character's personality and description
• Explored and designed characters from different angles

Who is Character Design for Beginners (Online Short Course) for
This course ideal is for anyone who is interested in creating and developing characters for books, comics, games or the screen. Participants should have some basic drawing skills because the assignments are practical. The course can be useful for portfolio preparation.

Level: Beginner

Clear, easy to understand lessons:

• Our tutors will explain things in easy to understand, accessible English. If they need to use any special terminology, they will make sure they explain what they mean.
• New methods will be shown to students through live demonstrations, in a way that’s crystal clear and easy to understand.

All our online short courses include:

• Live and interactive online lessons with classmates from around the world
• The same course content and learning outcomes as our face to face courses 
• Lesson recordings, for review, so you never have to miss a class 
• Access to the virtual learning environment with course content 
• Forums for support 
• 2 weeks online access to the recordings of the live classroom sessions 
• Ask questions to your tutor in real time 

A certificate of completion and a digital badge:

• You've put the work in so we want to make sure you have something to show for it!
• As long as you attend a minimum of 80% of your classes, we will provide you with a certificate of attendance.
• We always recommend you attend all of the classes so that you get the most out of the experience!
• Certificates and digital badges are great to compliment your cv.