Illustrator character design workflow for animation + color tips *Lottie animation series*

In this tutorial, I share my character design process for animation with Adobe Illustrator! Let me know what you'd like to see next in the comments! 🌈 I make fun nanimation tings on tiktok too https://vm.tiktok.com/35BtQL/ ✨ If you used any techniques from this tutorial, please tag me on Instagram @tru._.fffle so I can see what awesome things you make. Yay! 0:00 Hello! 0:41 Let's start 4:44 Create contrast with shape size 5:30 Scale from centre 7:10 Don't stick to your first try 8:06 Curves to mimic a sphere 13:00 Create guidelines 16:05 Break perfect shapes for a "human" touch 24:07 Keep track of your palette with swatches 24:56 Subtle gradients & shadows 29:44 Find colour inspiration from outside sources 30:15 Colour values 31:07 Create contrast where focus should be 31:28 Squint! 33:48 Simplify your palette 37:31 Using light in gradients 🤍BE MY FRIEND: instagram ➭   / issey.trufffle   tiktok ➭ https://vm.tiktok.com/35BtQL/ twitter ➭   / isseto   lottiefiles ➭ https://lottiefiles.com/trufffle codepen ➭ https://codepen.io/issey 🤍MY WORK: portfolio ➭ https://www.trufffle.studio/ ✨lottie shop ➭ https://moji.trufffle.studio/ Request Lottie Animations! 🎶 MUSIC I USE - Epidemic Sound ➭ https://www.epidemicsound.com/referra... Panthurr ➭   / panthurr   Andrew Applepie ➭   / andrewapplepie   ~ Shot on iPhone.