MY PROFESSIONAL JOURNEY: DRAWING AT THE CORE
In the Character Design: Mastering The Basics workshop at The Art Club, Chris breaks down the fundamentals behind creating simple, stylish animation designs, and shares what goes into his design process. Through lessons on minimalism & shape, students will learn methods to infuse more personality & visual appeal into their designs, and how to tie all aspects of a project’s design into a cohesive whole to benefit the end result.
Designed with both beginner/early intermediate designers in mind, the course can also be used by artists already skilled in illustration, comics, or kid lit who are looking to inject a strong yet simplified visual look to their designs. Whether it’s with animation in mind or just to minimize detail in order to streamline your workflow.
Topics include:
The Essence of Good Character Design
Minimalism in Design
Designing with Volume (Even for graphic or “flat” styles)
The Psychology of Design
How to “push” your designs to that next level
How characters, props, backgrounds & color work together
Participants may join as Active students, receiving drawovers and feedback, or as Viewers, with access to the live sessions and text chat interaction with other viewers.
Dates
Wednesday - April 22
Time
9:00am - 10:00am PST
(Workshop May Run Longer)
Location
The Art Club - Discord: <https://discord.gg/TZb8wK292j> Green Classroom
FORMAT
Class meets on Discord
There is no seat limit
THE FACULTY
Tomm Moore
Co-founder and Creative Director of Cartoon Saloon
Over Cartoon Saloon’s history, Tomm has worked as Director, Art Director, Storyboarder, Animator and Illustrator across a range of the studio's projects . Tomm has directed 3 universally successful feature films. All three were nominated for Best Animated Feature at the ACADEMY AWARD® The Secret of Kells in 2010 and the spiritual follow-up, Song of the Sea in 2015. His latest feature film “Wolfwalkers” which he co-directed with Ross Stewart received several prominent critics awards including LAFCA Award and NYFCC Award as well as nominations for a Golden Globe and a Bafta and wins in several categories including Best Director and Best Independent Feature at the 2021 Annie Awards. Both Song of the Sea and Wolfwalkers won the IFTA for best film while The Secret of Kells won best animation and rising star awards at the IFTAs.
Having completed the informal “Trilogy” of Irish folklore and history inspired films he is researching a new direction for the next cycle of features focusing on the Irish diaspora and its connections with other cultures . He is currently working as creative producer across several of Cartoon Saloon’s new film and series projects as well as refocusing on his personal art training , focusing on figure drawing and oil painting .
Tomm is a lifelong tattoo and comic book art enthusiast.
Tomm’s Credits
