Designing Animatable PSD Characters in Procreate

Design PSD based characters with proper layer hierarchy to animate in Moho, Character Animator, Animate CC and more!

4.85 (64 reviews)

Udemy

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English

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3D & Animation

What you will learn

Properly layout and design animatable characters that can be imported into Animate CC, Moho, Character Animator and more

Why take this course?

Are you ready to build your own character that can be imported into Moho, Animate CC, Character Animator and more? Then this is the course for you! By using Procreate, a design app for the iPad, we will create a separated and properly structured character which can easily be taken to the next step for animation. Don't have Procreate? Don't worry! You can still follow along with your design app of choice!

More specifically you will learn how to:

Navigate Procreate and utilize popular features
Sketch a character
Refine a sketch for proper shapes and dimensions
Set up proper layer order for rigging and animating
Ink the sketch
Color the sketch
Shade and highlight the sketch
Create eight mouth poses for lip syncing
Sketch out two addition head poses to set you up for creating head turns
Export the file from Procreate to a PSD for animation

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Reviews

Jonathan

February 20, 2024

This was the exact course I’ve been looking for as I was curious how to setup character design from Procreate for ease of use in MOHO (resolution, layer ordering, etc.). It had everything I was looking for and more- including helpful Procreate tips and tricks I wasn’t quite expecting. Thanks, Chad!

Daniel

February 16, 2021

I like the pace of the explaining and drawing it reminds me of an actual sit in college class. Easy to follow and explained well.

Isabella

February 4, 2021

Not what was advertised. I wish I could refund. This course teaches you how to copy a character that has already been drawn. Not create a character from scratch... I think if I keep watching it will show more about how a character should be drawn in different layers to make it easy to animate.

Ian

January 30, 2021

This has been a really interesting course allowing me to pick up a lot of good tips and tricks for creating characters in Procreate. I have learned so much and looking forward to learning more in the Animation courses you do so that I can piece it altogether so that I can create my own assets for my future games that I want to create. Thank you!

Amanda

August 4, 2020

This course is so much explaining on how the artist sketches, inks, colors, and then shades a single character they already have drawn up. I expect this course would be more about what is needed to make an animated character in Procreate for a PSD style format, instead it's an insane amount of time spent explaining sketching the various parts of the characters body. I found only a couple sub-sections useful. I wouldn't even venture to say this would be useful to a beginner, this just isn't useful.

Marion

July 20, 2020

Ich bin mit diesem Kurs sehr zufrieden, der Dozent zeigt jeden Schritt ausführlich, wodurch man ihm gut folgen kann. Ein toller Kurs!

Josh

November 25, 2019

Excellent. This is the first time using Procreate and I learned more than I ever expected. I'm not artist by any means, but I feel more confident after watching this course than I did before. Great job!

Anthony

September 25, 2019

Straight forward and to the point. Professionally presented, good quality sound and video. thank you !

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