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Character Design for Freelancers

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8 weeks

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What will you learn?

If you are a character designer and want to be ready for freelance work, Character Design for Freelancer is for you. Freelance work can be a massive part of a professional artist’s career. Being prepared to adapt to temporary assignments and varying artistic styles the way freelance work requires is a vital skill to develop. This is not an advanced class, but more importantly, a class for any designer who wants their portfolio to show they can be considered for and doing freelance character design work. Each lecture will tie into freelance experiences I’ve had myself, which will help bring context and a level of realism to each week’s work.

Every week will start with an assignment brief that reflects the type of brief an artist would get from an agency or studio if hired as a freelance character designer. That brief might require extra poses, additional character props, etc. Each week will also challenge the artist to work in a unique style (not necessarily their own), which is commonplace as a freelance character designer. Additionally, the weekly assignments will help students practice working quickly and keeping pace with the short timelines and quick turnarounds that often come with freelancing.

At the completion of the course, each student will have eight new character design pieces/spreads for their portfolio, which will showcase their ability and strength as a designer who could be hired for freelance.

Adapt and design unique characters for freelance projects

Focus on preparing artists for working as professional freelance character designers

One year of free access to the full course.

Enjoy one-year of full access to the course that includes lectures, feedback, and live Q&A recordings.

Earn a Certificate of Completion

Earn a Certificate of Completion when you complete and turn in 80% of course assignments.

Personalized expert feedback and live Q&A.

Receive personal individual feedback on all submitted assignments from the industry’s best artists.

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What will you learn?

Create a single-character design to be completed in a specific black-and-white line style.
Design a page of props. These props are to be designed in the same style as the character and with the same black-and-white final line quality. One of the more common freelance requests an artist will get to create a character design with props that the character will need to use in an animated commercial, TV show, or feature film.

Students will complete a finished character design that, in its final look, focuses mainly on using graphic color styling and digital painting. This can be essential in achieving a unique look for an animated project. Many freelance assignments require character designs to be completed in color to help better establish the style’s look, so working in color here is the only option.

Closely examine the limitations and advantages when designing a character for a 2D project. 2D projects require a certain level of finish/complexity for their specific professional pipeline, and this will be discussed in detail and showcased with their week’s worth of work.
Matching a specific style and ensuring that style is functional for 2D will be a primary focus this week.

Take on the challenge many freelance assignments pose: a character and a vehicle. It’s pretty common to have a character design and an environmental design ( like a vehicle ) needed for a commercial or short film. What’s great is that an assignment like this will help showcase students can handle designing a character and a central environmental prop like a car or truck in the same style.

Oftentimes freelance projects can be small in scale, but they want to maximize their “bang for their buck” with the project’s designs. This can often mean designing one character and making multiple design variations off of that single design.
In this week’s assignment, students will design a base model character per the assignment briefs style specs and then create two additional “variant/re-use” designs to show their ability to maximize design work across multiple characters in an efficient way.

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Pre-requisite: Character Design for Production
Materials: Photoshop (any), Wacom tablet or equivalent

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CG Master Academy - Character Design for Freelancers

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