Feature animation character designer Brooklyn Walker presents her guide to the art of gesture. Learn how to infuse your characters with life and vivacity, with tips and tricks used every day by working professionals.
Have you ever wondered how feature film animators create characters that feel elastic and full of life? Movement and energy are vital to a compelling story, and your best path to creating that energy in your work is through learning the finer details of gesture. Gesture takes stiff, wooden character designs and makes them exciting — and perfect for compelling stories.
In this course, feature animation character designer Brooklyn Walker covers industry tested techniques and exercises you can use to bring life to your characters, including the Flour Sack Method, the Bean and Noodle Method, and many, many more.
This course covers several methods of gesture drawing, with demonstrations by Brooklyn based on image reference. This course does not contain nude models.
Brooklyn Walker is a character designer and illustrator living in Los Angeles, California with her daughter and husband. She graduated from Brigham Young University in 2018 with a BFA in Illustration and is currently designing characters at Sony Pictures Animation.
www.brooklynwalkerart.com
Being a person who tends to draw very tight and tense at the start, this class not only gave me ways to immediately have my drawings be more relaxed and simplified, but was so thorough in the covering of all the ways to simplify and think about each drawing, that it cast them all in new light for me. Thank you so much! A game-changer class that I will definitely be coming back to after I spend more time practicing the recommendations given.
Brookyln's course is fantastic for anybody wanting to learn about gesture and even character design. I really enjoy seeing her process and I'm grateful for her sharing different approaches to constructing gesture drawings. Another thing I'm loving about this course is seeing how decisive Brooklyn is with her lines--everything has a purpose!Fantastic course and thank you for making this available to everyone!
Great course and very interactive.
This was amazing. Loved it.
