Track
Digital Designing
Duration
30 hours
Skill Level
Advanced
Language
English
About this Course
Design original characters while considering ethical design principles and preparing assets for various output formats.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home
Detailed Course Curriculum
Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.
- Clothing Styles and Periods
- Accessories and Props
- Eyes, Nose, and Mouth Variations
- Hairstyles and Facial Hair
- Color Theory and Psychology
- Creating a Character Color Palette
- Color Theory and Psychology
- Creating a Character Color Palette
- Digital Tools and Software for Character Design
- Digital Inking and Coloring Techniques
- Placing Characters in Narrative Context
- Character Development in Stories
- Animation and Movement
- Voice and Personality
- Careers in Character Design
- Current Trends in Character Design
- Understanding copyright laws and how they apply to illustrations
- Discussing fair use and the limitations on using copyrighted material in illustrations
- Exploring intellectual property rights in the context of illustration
- Offering guidelines for responsible illustration practices
- Discussing permissions and licensing for using third-party content in illustrations
- Emphasizing the importance of properly crediting sources and artists when using their work as a reference
- Printing
- Art board Printing
- Colors in Printing
- Exporting in Various File Formats
- Exporting in Adobe Applications
- Creating illustrations for book covers and interior layouts.
- Analyzing different styles and approaches.
- Producing illustrations for editorial content
- Analyzing visual storytelling in publications
- Understand Illustrator’s role in print media
- Working smartly in Adobe Illustrator
- Using the shortcut keys for smart work
- Web and Social Media Graphics
- Designing illustrations optimized for online platforms
- Designing illustrations optimized for online platforms
- Analyzing effective social media visuals
- Analyzing effective social media visuals
- Designing for User Interfaces and Apps
- Incorporating illustration into user interface and app design
- Incorporating illustration into user interface and app design
- Analyzing user-centric design principles
- Analyzing user-centric design principles
- Save for Web
- Web Data Variables
- Working with Slices
- Preferences
- Keyboard Shortcuts
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
Official Certification
• Official MKCL KLiC Certificate upon successful completion of the course and evaluations.
Work-Centric Learning Approach
• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!
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