Character Design

I love sketching and try and take a sketchbook with me wherever I go, always striving to improve my drawing skills. It's true what they say, there aren't any shortcuts to artistic excellence. There's only one long, winding road called Practice. Every time I start thinking I've "arrived" as an artist, I look at the work of...

This has been around for a while, but it's still a great link. In October 2002 California State Polytechnic University Pomona filmed a presentation by Disney character design supervisor Chen Yi Chang (Batman, Mulan, Tarzan). For over two hours Chang gives a multimedia discusssion covering the basics of good character design and technique. Then he reviewed student's work...