How to be a better character designer At the Yorkshire Games Festival, Lucy Kyriakidou explored visual storytelling, body diversity, and how to improve your art skills ...

Start with simple geometric shapes to make your character recognisable. A strong silhouette makes the design visually impactful.

Photoshop CS6 Extended tutorial showing how to design and create a strong, 1920s-style, Jazz Age, title design against a swirling, marble background from scratch.

Swift showed how one game character — a melee warrior — is made, from initial concept art, through animation, to writing, voice-over, combat design, audio and special effects.