How To Simplify Your Illustrative Characters For Animation

What You Will Learn?

• While it may be fun to come up with complex characters with intricate clothes and patterns, these characters are CRAZY to animate- especially full animation like the smooth movement you'd see in a movie. For this reason, characters designed for webcomics, based after anime designs, created for still images, etc more often than not need to be simplified for the sake of maintaining the animator's sanity and a consistent workflow. .
• If you're like me and have a very illustrative style or have a base in more complex designs, you may find that your characters become tedious to animate due to their detail and the only way to really fix the problem is to simplify them..
• This class will teach you various methods for simplifying a character and will go as far as to break a character down to their most basic forms and shapes. By breaking it down to the most basic, you will be easily able to find a middle ground of simplicity that doesn't alter the character too drastically while still minimizing pencil strokes..
• This class will be presented as a 2D Character Design Class but the ideas in it can be transferred to Digital Animation, Stop Motion, CG Animation, Etc. I recommend using some simple printing paper and a pen just to get a creative flow started but use whatever media you feel a most comfortable drawing in and take as much time as needed to finish the project~ .