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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Character Design for Video Games by California Institute of the Arts

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About the Course

In this course you will explore concepts and approaches involved in creating successful character designs that can be applied to video games. Following a first week delving into some foundational concepts for successful character design, each of the remaining three weeks are structured as a master class where you will observe three professional character designers at work in the studio: Andy Ristaino (Adventure Time), Jacky Ke Jiang (Journey), and Robertryan Cory (SpongeBob SquarePants). Each designer will take on two different design challenges on the fly and address the various issues in designing characters for games, such as movement, expression, and technical limitations. At the end of each week you will have an opportunity to try out some of the concepts from that week's lesson on characters of your own design. This is a fun and engaging class especially useful for students interested in animation in film and TV as well as games, and is suitable for students of any drawing ability....

Top reviews

JJ

Jul 16, 2023

Concise coverage of fundamentals with great interviews and process from working artists. Could probably do with a little more about the application and styles in games but a great course nonetheless.

AM

Nov 5, 2017

Fun and challenging to me. Is not easy to me to create new characters, but with this practice and professional examples, I feel more confident to just do and see what happens. Thank you, very much.

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By Adrian W

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Mar 7, 2016

Really good course, must be done with the rest of the specialization.

By Filip R

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Feb 24, 2016

It's the interviews with famous artists which make this course great!

By Evelyn S d S

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Jul 6, 2020

the course is amazing and I love how this course is dynamic and fun.

By Deleted A

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Oct 5, 2019

Great course, I really learn how to create a character for a game.

By Dave T

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May 2, 2023

This course helped me design my own characters for a video game.

By taylor c

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Sep 4, 2016

Beautiful course, very informational. Great community here, too!

By Nour C

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Jun 13, 2023

Very fun and interesting , I really enjoyed it and i love it .

By Hein H Z

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Jun 26, 2020

Great course. Love to know about how animation industry works.

By David H

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Oct 26, 2016

Top knotch! Great professor, great interviews! Great material.

By Luis E

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Jan 13, 2018

I loved it, the teachers and their experience is just gold.

By Tanja H

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May 14, 2016

The good best practice and insight in the topic was greate

By Joshua R A R

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Mar 4, 2021

Un gran curso dónde aprendes y te diviertes al momento :)

By Peggy C

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Aug 15, 2016

Great course, fun projects - inspiring and informative.

By Akhilesh

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Jan 26, 2022

this course helped me to learn a lot thank to calarts

By Tushar L

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Sep 28, 2020

This course helped me improve my character designs.

By Alfredo L

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Jan 5, 2017

Very insightful course. Teaches good design basics.

By Arturo I L T

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Apr 25, 2021

i really enjoyed this course, 100% would recommend

By J W

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Dec 12, 2016

It was a fun and artistic. I learned alot from it

By John F S I

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Apr 2, 2024

I learn so much , Thank you for those knowladge

By Sundas R

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Aug 9, 2025

This is an amazing course. I enjoyed it a lot.

By Glaucio J M d C

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Aug 20, 2019

I enjoy a lot this course. Excelent teachers.

By Morgyn M

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Oct 26, 2017

A very fun and well rounded course so far :)

By sandra v r

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Jul 10, 2021

buen curso te ayuda a desarrollar tus ideas

By Survesh R

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Feb 10, 2016

An awesome class to learn character design

By Rodrigo E M B

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Aug 13, 2016

a good way to begin to express our ideas