When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Brian Weisz Working as a freelance character designer requires a solid understanding of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Directors of some of of the year’s most notable animated features talk about the design and inspiration behind key characters ...

Design characters that truly tell stories Great animated characters don’t just look good—they live and breathe within their stories. From cultural influences to modern tools, design choices shape how ...

It's easy to read personalities into some of the greatest automotive designs over the years. Many of the most iconic are riddled with anthropomorphized details, like the eyelashes on the Lamborghini ...

Gematsu recently sat down with Toshiyuki Kubooka, the character designer and animation director behind the LUNAR series, to discuss the remastered editions of LUNAR: Silver Star Story and LUNAR: ...

The 95th Academy Awards are just around the corner, and voting for this year’s Oscars kicks off today. To really put ourselves in the mood for the animated feature race, we spoke with several of the ...

From early sketches to final renders, character design is where storytelling meets artistry. Animators use shape clarity, purposeful color, and anatomical awareness to create characters that feel ...

It started with a mouse—and thank God they didn’t name him Mortimer. Walt Disney may have whiffed it with the name he originally proposed for Mickey, but his eye for character design was clear from ...

ComicBook has the exclusive preview of excerpts from X-Men ’97: The Art and Making of the Animated Series. Those excerpts feature character designs for Magneto, Beast, and Jubilee. With Professor ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

Directors of some of of the year’s most notable animated features talk about the design and inspiration behind key characters including a sentient robot, expressive cat and villainous penguin. Twins ...