Easy Cartoon Backgrounds and Character Design for Animation. I stumbled across Martin Belvisi's two Udemy courses, Easy Cartoon Backgrounds for Animation , and Cartoon Character Design for Animation , because I was actually looking for a beginners course to teach me the fundamentals of illustration with the free vector art application, Inkscape . Since my exact reason for wanting to learn Inkscape more thoroughly was to use it for making assets for 2D animation it seemed like a no brainer to purchase both courses. Even more so because I got both at heavily discounted prices through one of Udemy's frequent, sitewide sales. What really sold it for me is thumbnail images used to represent each course. That background and those characters look as good as any professional, modern day, 2D animated cartoon, and they were drawn in Inkscape (which has a definite low perception problem despite it being an incredibly powerful and capable vector art tool). This stylized background looks
My First Anthropomorphic Character with Reallusion's Character Creator 3 (Pipeline) & Reviving My TETAnimations YouTube Channel
Skateboarding Cage Monster - Heelflip. Reallusion's Character Creator 3 is a pretty incredible application for creating any kind of human digital 3D character quickly. Its power comes from the way it can totally deform a standard human base template character into a seemingly infinite number of body types and shapes. While I wouldn't recommended it as a your only 3D character sculpting tool, it is very powerful with just how much you can edit a character's form at the vertex/mesh level. I've experimented a little with CC3's Edit mesh functions, mostly using it to hide areas of an object I don't want seen. Bat Storm's cape is a good example where I used the ability to hide vertices to completely remove the assassin's hood from the neckline up. Just on a whim I wondered if I could create my Cage Monster character entirely in CC3 (with exception to his skin textures which I edited in Krita). The character is basically a stylised human body with a monster