Learn how to properly design image based characters for animation in Moho, Animate CC, After Effects, Character Animator and more!

Learn Design Basics

Learn how to design the head, hair, body, facial features and more!

Go from sketch to finished result

This course takes you step by step through designing a character from scratch. Sketching, inking, coloring, shading and highlight are all covered.

Learn Proper Layer Ordering

Designing characters with animation in mind requires multiple layers and pieces to be effective. We keep this concept front and center, showing you what layers you should have and the best way to lay them out.

Build a Cartoon Character from Scratch!

Are you ready to build your own character that can be imported into Moho, Animate CC, Character Animator and more? Then this is the course for you! By using Procreate, a design app for the iPad, we will create a separated and properly structured character which can easily be taken to the next step for animation.

More specifically you will learn how to:

Sketch a character
Refine a sketch for proper shapes and dimensions
Set up proper layer order for rigging and animating
Ink the sketch
Color the sketch
Shade and highlight the sketch
Create eight mouth poses for lip syncing
Sketch out two addition head poses to set you up for creating head turns
Export the file from Procreate to a PSD for animation

Multiple ways to rig and animate

Once you finish this course you have a number of options for rigging and animating your character. The character PSD can be imported and broken down into individual layers with most animation softwaring correctly handling the layout.

What's included?

50 videos 1 file

Designing Animatable PSD Characters in Procreate