Character Design for Freelancers

An 8-week course focused on preparing artists for working as professional freelance character designers

COURSE OVERVIEW

Adapt and design unique characters for freelance projects

COURSE OVERVIEW

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

The more you know, the better.

Instructor

Bringing out the best in talent

Nate Wragg

\ Dreamworks Animation

LECTURES BY Nate Wragg

Nate Wragg was born and raised in the small town of Davis, California. He took an interest in drawing and painting at an early age. After graduating high school, he studied animation and design at The California Institute of the Arts in Southern California. Nate got his start at Pixar working as a vis dev artist on Ratatouille. He also served as one of the primary character designers on Toy Story 3. As well as designing characters, Nate was also the Production Designer of Pixar’s short film Your Friend the Rat and has been involved in designing several main title sequences, most notably the animated end titles for Ratatouille. After Toy Story 3, Nate made the move to DreamWorks and has Production Designed several films including : Captain Underpants : The First Epic Movie, The Croods : A New Age, and Puss in Boots : The Last Wish. Nate is currently working as the Production Designer on the upcoming DreamWorks film Dog Man.

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STUDENT GALLERY

Henry Pham

Mari Kishimoto

Benzhen Sung

Kevin Cooney

Julien Grelly

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Julien Grelly

PRICING SCHEDULE

Even though our courses are the most affordable for the quality of education.

These FINANCE OPTIONS allow you to focus on your goals instead of the barriers that keep you from reaching them.

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Mari

Before taking this class, I didn’t know anything about freelancing and how to write emails to client. Each week, there was an example of how to correspond with client emails and how to read the client brief and it was very helpful.
Henry

This course has challenged me and many different ways that I otherwise would not have been able to. Nate was excellent at explaining things in ways I’ve never thought before and had done so in very clear, concise manner.
BenZhen

This course was amazing! Curriculum was extremely robust and very industry-relevant. This course taught various artistic styles and subject matter that freelance character designers might encounter in job requests, and I finish the course feeling much more confident and excited in my abilities to adapt to the needs of various freelance clients!
Natalia

Nate is an exceptional teacher. It changed my way of taking on new projects and opened up new opportunities and horizons as a freelance artist. I cannot thank him enough for how valuable it was to take Nate’s class.