How to Draw a Character for Animation

Ruslan Galba
@hellotegra
Published in
2 min readSep 5, 2020

How to Draw a Character for Animation 🙋‍♂️

Courtesy of @al_leleka

Here is a short guide for illustrators and animators about drawing characters for animation 🤗

Do you know how to draw character for animation?
A lot of illustrators think that they know, but honestly, it’s not. Let’s fix it today!

Draw characters without any joints

It’s not enough to round joints

Put a circle!

With circle, the rig will be cleaner in AE and the animator can rotate body parts without issues. Here is my scheme of body

Huge difference!

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Ruslan Galba
@hellotegra

Increasing revenue for DTC brands via Facebook / Google ads 🚀Growth Strategist 🤘 Founder @hellotegra growth team 🤖 $5M+ profitable ad spend in 2020