Year 9 Character Design & Digital Illustration

TERTIARY & CAREER PATHWAYS:

Character designer, illustrator, matt painter, game designer, game developer, graphic designer, advertising account executive, marketing, visual merchandiser, design assistant, set designer, animator, media presenter, technical drawing assistant, web designer

In our world today, ‘gaming’ has overtaken the film industry and music in terms of total revenue. This course will explore the fundamentals of character design, concept art and illustration for games and television and film. Students will learn to draw and paint on paper and digitally using Wacom tablets and digital painting software. Students will learn how to work their way through the creative process to design characters or environments that are outlined in a brief. Students will learn anatomy, proportion, a variety of drawing and painting techniques. This course is highly recommended for students who love to draw but would like to be extended, develop a breadth of style and build a portfolio of character design and illustrations.

Learning Standards:

EXPLORE & PRESENT IDEAS

• Develop and present visual communications that demonstrate the application of methods, materials, media, design elements and design principles that meet the requirements of a specific brief and target audience.
• Generate, develop and refine visual communication presentations in response to the brief 

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VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN PRACTICES

• Use manual and digital drawing methods to create visual communications in the specific design fields of Environmental, Industrial and Communication Design.

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PRESENT & PERFORM

• Develop a brief that identifies a specific audience and needs, and present visual communications that meet the brief.

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RESPOND & INTERPRET

• Analyse and evaluate the factors that influence design decisions in a range of visual communications from different historical, social and cultural contexts, including presentations by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 
• Analyse and evaluate the use of methods, media, materials, design elements and design principles in visual communications from different historical, social and cultural contexts, including presentations by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Assessment:

There will be a variety of tasks undertaken from the following (covering both manual and digital drawing styles):

• Principles of drawing and character design
• Landscape illustrations
• Character design folio

Recommendation:

Students who wish to do Graphic Design or Architectural Design or in Year 10 should consider taking this subject.

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