Telling a Character's Story with a 2D Looped Animation

Welcome to my first Skillshare class!

My name is Vera and I am a freelance illustrator and animator from Hamburg, Germany.

In this class, I will teach you how I design characters that tell a story within themselves, and show you, how to create a 2D animation with them.

I recommend this class for a bit more advanced students. But as long as you are feeling confident and are up for a challenge, I encourage every artist to join in!
Designing for animation will help you understand characters and movement, and show you a whole lot of possibilities for making your art more exciting.

I will show you how I approach character design with a sense of storytelling, that will be applicable for a little looped 2D animation.

You can tag along in my process step by step, and either follow my self-imposed assignment (see class project description), or come up with your own assignment for the character.

• Introduction
• The Brief
• Gathering Reference Materials
• Where Inspiration Strikes
• Reference Sheet
• Sketches
• Character Design
• Story
• Setting up Photoshop for Animation
• Principles of Animation
• Animation
• Last Words