How to Design your Main Character and an IDLE POSE | Beginner 2D Game Art

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This video will be an introduction in how you can go about when designing your character and an idle pose. There are some things that are glossed over and I already have a video regarding the creation of my first character. But I really wanted to cover the idea of starting from a silhouette and the most simplest shapes, and then building off of that, because this concept applies to all your art, not just your character and is really important in my opinion. I also hope that you find it fun seeing all the weird versions that I end up with before I reach something that I like.

The thing we are focusing on here will only be the first idle frame, but you can use it to add an animated pose on top of it. We also go through a really rough version of a running animation, but only to see if we can use the character design.



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