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Character Design with Apple Pencil - Cubby the Lion

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Channel: Stayf Draws · 2016 · Howto & Style

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Please watch: "Little Angel Picture Book on iBooks with Movie" 
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Character Design with Apple Pencil - Cubby the Lion. I am currently working on a new project called Cubby the Lion. I will be making a series of videos about the making of the eBook. It is going to be an interactive picture book with music and narration and will be available as an eBook for iBooks. In this video I will tell about the initial idea for the story and Character Design. 

The idea
But I am going to start at the beginning. The first idea and character design of the character For a client.I started designing a character based on their logo a lion and made some designs of a baby lion for an educational app. The idea of the app was discarded and the character was never used. Until I started making animations for the Like ZOO YouTube channel. It is a an educational show which is presented by a cartoon character called Professor Doctor Anton Mole who talks about animals. I introduced Cubby as a sidekick in a video about the iBooks series the Incredible Tales of Professor Dr. Anton Mole. Here a link to that video:
https://youtu.be/GgAL0SKQ91I

It is hard to tell where ideas come from, some call it inspiration. But what is inspiration? It can start out with just a doodle or painting. When I started making the animations for the Like Zoo channel I started to paint the backgrounds and drawings in Procreate. Up until that point I only drew cartoon like characters with a very simple rendering. I wanted to explore if you could paint on the iPad. So I painted a lot of backgrounds on the iPad and did the sketches of the animals in the series. For the character design of Cubby I made this design in Procreate. And then made a character setup in Moho for the animation. When you press on the i in the right upper corner you can see the debut of Cubby the Lion. I made the design in vectors, so it is a very smooth cartoon kind of rendering. But what I really like is the rendering of the painting. What if you could animate in this style?

Let me know what you find interesting and if you have any questions about Cubby the Lion please follow me on twitter @stayfDraws with the hashtag #askStayf

All the questions I will answer in the next video. Drawing is fun and practice makes perfect! Doodles!

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