This character has a longer story that has been lost to a broken hard drive and a sketchbook that is stuck three states and about 600 miles. He's a magician that I designed and modeled in Maya and decided to revisit after taking Fraser Davidson's 2D character animation Skillshare course, kudos to Fraser for sharing some of his knowledge. That of course meant that I had to translate the character from the 3D render below and then translate him to the particulars of Fraser's method.
An afternoon of figuring out proportions, quick sketches, and I was able to get into crispy clean vectors. Fully prepared for the rigors of After Effects animation.
More To Follow
Tools:
Pencil
Paper
Pen
Maya
Illustrator
After Effects
A bit of a craptacular angle to build a character from, if I'd to say.
One of these guys is going to make become a moving magician. Who will it be?
It's not the size of the hat that makes the magic.
Places to go, magic to make.
