A live workshop series taught by a video game industry professional in which attendees learn how to design 2D characters and creatures for use in video games, animations, websites and mobile apps.
2D Characters
| 2D Characters – Lessons Character Design Basics Character Shapes & Silhouettes Developing Character Features Character Style & Color Theory Character Clothing & Accessories Character Poses & Expressions | Number of live lessons: 6 Duration/lesson: 60 minutes Where: Live Zoom Meetings Workshop fee: $90 |
The 2D Characters workshop is designed to be extremely accessible even for those with little or no experience in graphic design. Students will experience the overall graphic design process from the initial concept phase, through design and development, and finally on to exporting and publishing their work.
In this workshop, participants will learn how to use 2D graphic design tools, and create their own 2D character artwork. They will be provided with links to the necessary tools and resources and encouraged to express their own creativity through the entire character design process.
HIGH QUALITY LESSONS
What differentiates our workshops from other online learning programs is that we are industry professionals that focus on providing real-time instructional support through our online Zoom meetings, and we embrace the complete world of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) to illustrate how they are all intertwined within our technology and integral to all technology development.
By the end of this workshop, students will create their own 2D character artwork designs and export them for use in other game, animation, video and web applications.
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
In this workshop, you don’t need to have previous 2D character design experience because “2D Characters” is designed as a comfortable way for everyone to develop and improve their character design skills.
- Learn the fundamentals of 2D character design.
- Learn how to use the interface and tools in Illustrator, Photoshop, Inkscape or GIMP to design, develop and produce 2D character graphic designs.
- Learn how to design 2D graphics using layers.
- Create interesting 2D graphic characters and creatures.
- Enhance the visuals of games or websites using additional graphic design techniques and programs.
- Learn about color design and how to implement color into graphics.
- Learn how to export graphics and display them on multiple hardware platforms.
TEACHING EXPERTISE
Coziplans LLC is a company focused on providing an opportunity to learn at a comfortable pace to anyone anywhere by meeting each individual at the level they are currently at in their learning process. In our STEAM workshops, participants learn to code, design and/or build software. Our learners have fun while learning the critical skills of tomorrow. Meet our team of industry professionals at https://coziplans.com/meet-the-team/ and discover how we combine decades of professional game development experience, teaching credentials and technical certifications in order to offer the highest quality of instruction to everyone.
REQUIRED SOFTWARE INSTALLATION
If attendees do not already have software installed on their system, they will need to download and install the necessary software and tools before joining this workshop.
To install the Adobe Creative Suite or Free Alternative Software…
- You will need to install a 2D graphic design tool such as the Adobe Creative Cloud
- Adobe Creative Cloud: https://creativecloud.adobe.com/apps/download/creative-cloud
- OR try out free alternative programs like:
- (Free Photoshop alternatives)
- GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
- Photopea: https://www.photopea.com/
- (Free Illustrator alternative)
- Inkscape: https://inkscape.org/release/0.92.4/windows/64-bit/
**PLEASE NOTE**
The installation of the software and tools can sometimes take 30 minutes or more to complete. We ask that everybody complete the installation before the start of the first workshop lesson. This will ensure that we can start promptly and cover all the learning materials scheduled for the first lesson. Thank you for your cooperation.
**NEED HELP?** If you need live technical assistance installing and configuring your software or tools contact steam@coziplans.com and we’ll assist you if we can.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
- This workshop is not designed as a drop-in program.
- Each workshop lesson and workshop level in this series builds upon the previous one.
- This is a graphic design workshop that primarily uses the Adobe Creative Suite to teach 2D character design.
- This schedule is subject to change according to the needs of the class as determined by the instructor.
PARENTAL GUIDANCE
- The Adobe Creative Suite is professional software and we do our best to make the workshop content accessible to everyone whether they are using the professional software or other alternative educational applications. Please be patient because this is a group workshop where participants may be starting at different skill levels.
- We encourage students that enjoy additional challenges and pushing boundaries to request an advanced workshop series aligned with their continuing interests once they have mastered this workshop level.
- Most importantly, we want to remind everyone that these workshops are meant to be both educational and fun, so please speak up or contact us if you have any questions.
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