Last Call for Character Design on Monday

Character Designs by Andrea Torrejon

Last call for our Character Design Evening Class, which is returning to Escape Studios on Monday 14th May

Character Design is an 8 week evening class, running until 9th July, taught primarily by Andrea Torrejon, veteran of Angry Birds, and in-house designer at one of London's leading boutique animation houses, Passion Pictures.

Like all of our courses, this class is taught by a working industry professional; Andrea will guide students through the principles of character design, building up to a live industry brief.

Model pack for Angry Birds by Andrea Torrejon

Character design is one of the most demanding and interesting - but also competitive - parts of the pre-production process.

Character designers work closely with the producer and director to determine the look and feel of a project.  Design a character for a blockbuster project and your work can have enduring global appeal.

Our character design evening class is taught by Andrea Torrejon, who (amongst other projects) did the character model sheets and turnarounds the the Angry Birds movie.

She's also a great teacher, who gets excellent reviews from our students. "Andrea was fantastic,
very motivating and knowledgeable" - is a typical review of her teaching style. 

Designs by Andrea Torrejon

To get an idea of what's involved, watch the free video below, a brief introduction to the art and craft of character design - a webinar that I recorded a few months ago.

The webinar is about the general principles of character design, and also shines a light on the creation of the many characters in the Queen's Counsel cartoon strip, a weekly satire on law and lawyers that I have been writing and drawing in The Times newspaper since 1993.

The webinar was fun to do; we had a great audience who asked lots of questions, so it's a pretty interactive talk, with lots of ideas being bounced around. 


To see more about the character design course, read this post.  And to read an interview with Andrea, and see more of her work, follow this link.

Recommended Reading
We recommend these books


1. How to Draw and Paint Crazy Cartoon Characters: Create Original Characters with Lots of Personality Paperback – March 1, 2007 - by Vincent Woodcock

2. Creating Characters with Personality: For Film, TV, Animation, Video Games, and Graphic Novels by Tom Bancroft.

To see the official course page, follow this link.

The Escape Studios Animation Blog offers a personal view on the art of animation and visual effects. To apply for our BA/MArt in 3D Animation, follow this link.  To apply for our storyboarding evening class, visit this page here.  For the next 12 week animation course, click here. And to apply for the next evening class in Producing Animation, see this page.