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Aaron Miller demonstrates how to turn inanimate objects into characters full of life and personality. -
Create heavyweight characters
Peskimo demonstrates how to turn your signature style into unique character design. -
Cross-platform character design
Ben Mounsey shows you how to create characters that are easily transferable across the range of modern ad display mediums. -
Make the Figurative Abstract
There's more to character work than cutesy figures, as Roberto Marras demonstrates. -
Sketching pen and ink in Flash
Character animator and background artist Tom Baker explains how to create hand-drawn pen-and-ink-style sketched images using just and your graphics tablet -
Convey Human Emotion
Escape Studios' Nick Savy provides expert guidance on giving your characters convincing facial expressions. -
Craft a caricature
Capturing a good likeness is largely down to pencil and paper skills, but going digital can really speed things up, explains Stephen Collins. -
Create your own monster
How do you give a fictional creature a distinct personality? Peskimo explains how to design a convincing monster. -
14 brilliant character design tutorials
Jim McCauley digs through the archives and unearths everything you need to know about character design.
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