Adding Depth and Believability to Your Character Design
summary
Advice: treat a concept as a blueprint and fill its gaps with researched construction and surface work. Spend half a day gathering references for garments, silhouettes and hardware, use Marvelous Designer to solve fitting and Substance Painter for edgewear and dark washes, add concrete details like rivets, a yoke, paneling or functional pockets, introduce large and element-level gradients to create overlap and depth, use branding and period-appropriate makeup to anchor identity, and consult a fashion encyclopedia for naming and construction rules.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:50Concept Art
- 2:36Reference
- 11:21Variation
- 13:48Depth
- 16:26Branding
- 17:55The Face
- 22:01Conclusion
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