In the Fall of 2021, animation director and illustrator Sarah Beth Morgan gave a Dribbble Workshop on Character Design for Animation.

In the workshop, we were given a client brief. The client was The Gift Stop, and the brief was to illustrate a character of our choosing with a gift or product from their shop.

Sarah then took us through her process of designing a character step by step. This process included concepting, taking reference photos, sketching in Photoshop, learning to abstract and distort proportions, creating color palettes and adding textures.

The class also covered how to set up our files for animation (Cel vs AE) and how best to communicate when working with an animator.