Chevron Left
Back to Character Design for Video Games

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

4.7
stars
983 ratings

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.

JM

Dec 21, 2016

As I said earlier, I recommend this course for everyone; doctors included (:

I like how this course was treated in a different way. We see people doing the job on there ground, that's interesting.

Filter by:

251 - 258 of 258 Reviews for Character Design for Video Games

By Viola B

•

Sep 27, 2016

It was a fun course, not sure about the educational content, but it was fun.

By Luca L

•

Jul 26, 2017

Good course, fun to do, but the video quality is terrible.

By Vitor L

•

Feb 23, 2023

it takes too long to receive reviews

By Marko D

•

Aug 21, 2022

The video content for this course is quite boring and poorly edited. I think they could have condensed these sections into shorter videos. Also, the class assignments are a bit too vague and some students mark unfairly if you don't have good drawing skills. The marking is easy but the subjective nature will frustrate some.

By Constantin

•

Jan 21, 2022

,

I wish this course was about the abstract design of a character: goals, archetypes etc... and not about drawing.

By Fanni B

•

Feb 1, 2024

Okay, so I chose this because I thought it would be easy peasy, this was my first course. Turned out it was a bad experience. The tutorial isn't really a tutorial. This is a series of interviews, where they tell you the process of what they put on the paper. The process of what they're currently doing, not how they actually got there. Because we obviously can't see inside their brains to understand their process. So we lack the thinking part. Where we could have learnt something, if it wasn't a bad tutorial. The explanations from the interviewees usually goes like this: Uhm let's do this. Ski jacket on a guy with a beard. Or a woman with a beard. Can be both. Also I usually don't know what to start with so I start it out like this. (scribbles a whole character). There. it's done now. How am I supposed to learn from this?? These videos are low quality, the designs are low quality. If I wanted to learn how to make an absolutely abstract alien for adventure time, congratulations, now I can do that. But I can only do that exact alien, nothing else because it wasn't explained. Yet they ask for more complicated assignments than what you've been shown, and this is the part where I feel like that beginners would sweat blood and cry on the floor. Awful, just awful.

By Gale K

•

Aug 2, 2024

To do the homework for this course, you must be a graphic artist experienced in Maya 3D software or Autodesk. This was never mentioned in the course requirements. I am not an artist. I can't do the homework assignments.

By Omar L

•

Apr 16, 2022

Worst specilization and support