Fundamentals Of Character Design with Ahmed Aldoori
Release date:2018, March 23
Author:Ahmed Aldoori
Skill level:Beginner
Language:English
Exercise files:Yes
Fundamentals Of Character Design with Ahmed Aldoori : This is a beginning character design course with an emphasis on creating memorable characters with interesting personalities & shapes to tell a story. The goal is to visually communicate our characters from life observations, reference, and our imaginations. As we continue the course, the students will get used to the idea of iteration and refinement in designs, better serving the story and direction. Exploration, getting out of your comfort zone, and visually communicating through drawing will be major components to our class.
The more you know, the better.
Week 1 | Creating Volume and a Solid Foundation
Tools for the class: Your Brain, your attitude, and art supplies | Sketchbook as a journal and methodology (look draw) | Brief overview of the keys to drawing with volume. | Foreshortening, placement, shading, surface, size, contour, overlap, density, horizon, shadow, You-nique, Practice, and attitude.
Week 2 | Finding the Character Through Gesture
Character-gesture | What is a gesture, how to go about finding one, and why it’s important to your character.
Week 3 | Design and the Language of Shapes
The idea behind shapes | How shapes define silhouettes | Understanding how the outside shell reflects what’s inside the character.
Week 4 | Balance in Design
Line Weight | Symmetry vs. Asymmetry | Flow of Lines | Busy to Simple | Balance in Contrast | Balance in Color | Actual Balance | Artist Balance
Week 5 | Building Relationships
How design decisions relate to each other. | To story, to self, to shape, to page | Positive negative space, props and cloth, archetypes
Week 6 | Expressive!
Expressing yourself, hands, feet, eyes, and mouth
Week 7 | Tonal Focus
Finding the Values in your Art | When thinking about contrast, visual communication is key | How do you show your design off in the best way possible?
Week 8 | Colors
Color Theory and design decisions for your character | Remaining conscious of your color choices to reflect your characters’ feelings and how you want your audience to react to them | Thinking in Local colors first
Week 1
Fundamentals of Character Design week 1 – Chapter 1 – Classroom – CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 1 – Chapter 2 – CG Master Academy_2
Fundamentals of Character Design week 1 – Chapter 3 – CG Master Academy_2
Fundamentals of Character Design week 1 – Chapter 4 – CG Master Academy_2
Week 2
Fundamentals of Character Design week 2 – Chapter 1 – CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 2 – Chapter 2 – CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 2 – Chapter 3 – CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 2 – Chapter 4(Homework) – CG Master Academy
Week 3
Fundamentals of Character Design week 3 – Chapter 1 – CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 3 – Chapter 2- CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 3 – Chapter 3 – CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 3 – Chapter 4 – CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 3 – Homework demo- CG Master Academy
Week 4
Fundamentals of Character Design week 4 – Chapter 1 – CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 4 – Chapter 2 – CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 4 – Chapter 3- CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 4 – Homework demo- CG Master Academy
Week 5
Fundamentals of Character Design week 5 – Chapter 1 – CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 5 – Chapter 2- CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 5 – Chapter 3 – CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 5 – Homework demo – CG Master Academy
Week 6
Fundamentals of Character Design week 6 – Chapter 1- CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 6 – Chapter 2 – CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 6 – Chapter 3- CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 6 – Chapter 4 – CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 6 – Homework demo- CG Master Academy
Week 7
Fundamentals of Character Design week 7 – Chapter 1 – CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 7 – Chapter 2 – CG Master Academy
Week 8
Fundamentals of Character Design week 8 – Chapter 1 – CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 8 – Chapter 2 – CG Master Academy
Fundamentals of Character Design week 8 – Chapter 3 – CG Master Academy
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This COURSE is HUGE and AMAZING. Thank you very much for this. Something I may point out us that the instructor is not Ahmed Aldoori it´s Brett Bean wich is one of the Best Character Designers Out there for the Entertainment Industry.
From the first video he is Ahmed Aldoori,
Yes, you are right!! It´s Ahmed!
Did you actually watch the lessons before posting this? Ahmed’s lectures are no longer available on CGMA as they have been replaced, but these are his.
Hi, Thank you for everything you do. Do you have any Myron Barnstone courses? Could they be uploaded?
Much appreciated.
is there a faster way to download all the videos ?
we will create a torrent tracker soon
Yes torrent!
Yes! Torrent is pretty much needed. I keep these lessons in my mobile so that I can watch while travelling. Downloading individual lessons is very hectic. Thanks for all the uploads.
The course outline is incorrect (the description above is from Brett Bean’s current class).
I copy and pasted Aldoori’s course outline from the Wayback Machine here (https://web.archive.org/web/20170828043034/http://2d.cgmasteracademy.com/fundamentals-of-character-design.html):
Week 1: Gesture: Introduction to the course will cover a range of topics. What is character design? What different types of character design exist? There will also be an overview of what to expect from the course in terms of content and assignments.
Week 2: Basic Anatomy: Covering the building blocks (cubes, cylinders, and spheres) for basic anatomy. This can be done in 2D if 3D/form is not your strength. We will discuss proportions (Extremes! Go too far, go too little, and find a sweet spot.)
Week 3: Shape Design: We will cover the basic shapes regarding triangles, circles, squares and will discuss meaning behind each shape and how to apply that to characters and figures.
Week 4: Interior Shapes: This will cover Interior shapes as a contrast to outer silhouette of each character. This provides a unique balance of shape contrast that can have a profound impact on your designs.
Week 5: Expressions: This will cover the range of basic expressions and why it’s important to convey emotion/story in character designs; we will go over how to indicate these on a basic level, as well as complex (grab a mirror!).
Week 6: Storytelling: You can create and start telling stories through your characters. That’s the point of it all! The purpose isn’t to show off your figure drawing skills, but rather to make other people feel something through your character. Regarding personality; you can base your characters off of people you know! Don’t just copy existing characters, you have an opportunity to bring your own story into your work rather than piggyback off of other work.
Week 7: Themes: This will cover the nature of themes as appropriate for any given story, it could range from fantasy, science fiction, steampunk, or anything you could think of.
Week 8: Final Discussion: Final discussion regarding the power of character design, and how you can use everything learned in this class as a starting point. Every assignment was dipping your toes into the pool, it is up to you to keep learning as much as you can, by putting a ton of focused mileage in the directions taught in this class.
Hey, I cannot find the class files anywhere can you please clarify
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