Starting with a sample creative brief and reference collection, Maciej will walk you through the early stages of a futuristic character design, including project-planning and software choices. You will learn his process for creating thumbnails from shapes, form, and lighting, as well as iterating on initial designs.
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Emily Keohane 5 years ago
Great videos! Love seeing everyones hw too. Can someone point me in the direction of the brush downloads?
Travis Davids 7 years ago
Thanks for the course, i haven't watched anything over the 8 weeks so i need to catch up but i appreciate the great amount of content.
Maciej Kuciara 7 years ago staff
Thanks Travis! Hope you're enjoying the course so far :)
Beeple Dude 7 years ago
WTFFFFFFFF, you god damn motherfuckers are GOOD AS SHIT. FMLLLL
Maciej Kuciara 7 years ago staff
lol beeple :D
Maciej Kuciara 7 years ago staff
Thanks a lot for amazing feedback guys!! Keep conversation going, I can't wait to check your works on forums too! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND everyone taking this course to use community to post your progress and help each other out. We not only want to inspire you to work and keep working, but also help students inspire and help each other - in short build great community and family of Learn Squared.
We'll be rewarding active, helpful and awesome people with awesomeness :) We have great things that we're currently developing that will blow your minds (it blows my mind to say at least, so i hope these things will have same magnitude on yourself:)
Maciej Kuciara 7 years ago staff
Andrew opened Student Homework section, post up there :)
Francisco Sequeira 7 years ago
we will have a forum?
would be cool to see what all did.
and I'm already trying to change habits, such as keeping facebook off :)
Victor Bravo 7 years ago
Nice to meet you people! This first lesson was really good. I think the part about how to manage the time is really really good. We should re-think about our habits. :)
Joshua Calloway 7 years ago
Hey everyone! Great start Maciej! Your thought process has already influenced my workflow and I can't wait to learn how to really push my designs and polish.
Harwan Stia Yoga 7 years ago
Hello Everyone, Is Maciej using masking while paint the thumbnails?
Maciej Kuciara 7 years ago staff
Harwan, yea, group masks allow me to paint freely without being worried to constrict brush strokes within frames. Ctrl+G on selected layers group them together, then you make selection (marquee tool or lasso tool, whichever works best for you) and click Add Layer Mask at the bottom of Layers stack
Harwan Stia Yoga 7 years ago
Thank You Kurt, the answer really help alot. :D
Kurt Stadther 7 years ago
He used group masks to keep within the thumbnail boundaries and a clipping mask or two with a lighten layer to get behind the character.
Sergey Grechanyuk 7 years ago
Very useful info) mow I looking for references in different way) also great to see how it going from the simple to more advansed one step in a time) Have a prolific studying everybody!
Natasha Malysheva 7 years ago
Hey! it's actual question about brushes ,)
Nikolay Razuev 7 years ago
Nice to meet everyone here!
Alexander Winkler 7 years ago
Excellent Video series Maciej
Full of awesome info
Thomas Jones 7 years ago
Keep up the great work. I appreciate the balance between drawing technique and design/storytelling. First time I've had a teacher give me tips on time management as well.
Raul Rivera Arroyo 7 years ago
Great videos and a great start to the course!
Tony Varatip 7 years ago
Thanks Maciej! Excited to start thumbing. I was wondering where I could find the brushes used in class!
Maciej Kuciara 7 years ago staff
Kurt link is great, I will also add brushes to this lesson very soon. Will keep you all posted!
Tony Varatip 7 years ago
thanks kurt!
Kurt Stadther 7 years ago
http://maciejkuciara.deviantart.com/art/Free-Brushes-2015-534474486 These are the most recent ones I could find from his DA account. Not too sure if they're totally up to date, but they're from 2015.
Antoine Giampaolo 7 years ago
Yep ! Just super useful ! Good tips for thumbnailling !
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