Characters matter

Every year, millions of dollars go to waste in the film, literature, and video game industries due to poorly designed and developed characters. Meanwhile, well-made characters go on to inspire thousands, lead successful marketing campaigns, and bring audiences around the world on incredible adventures. This begs the question: what's in a character?

NEW: Share Your Character!

What's worse than making art alone? Nothing. It can ruin your designs. Your concepts. Your end products. Collaboration helps keep character designs on the right path. Industry experts know there's no substitute.

Character Camp is now accepting character briefs for review! Accepted briefs will be shown and reviewed in a YouTube video. Let's see what's in YOUR character!

Send Us Your Character...

  • - Key art

  • - Turnaround, mood, and props sheets

  • - Purpose and lore

  • - All documents with your watermark/signature

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Weekly Character
Design Analysis Videos

The only character design channel that shows you what makes characters rise or fall. That's like forbidden knowledge. That's your edge.

Some videos are made for looks.
Ours are made to help.

Character Camp was made for learning. Each video discusses principles of character design. Whether you're working on characters for your passion project, or there's a new brief on your desk, these videos were made for you.

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Tip: Scars Are Beautiful

In an era where smooth, low-poly renderings of video game characters are the norm, scarred characters grounded in realism pop out in the best way possible. Showing graphic scarring not only aligns to a realistic visual theme, but can be another avenue of visual storytelling.Ebba from Highguard by Cristina Laviña Ferez

Humans Helping Humans

Character Camp is here to support human artists. That's why 100% of our proceeds from Buy Me A Coffee go to supporting artists. It's a non-negotiable.

Donation is completely voluntary and entirely appreciated. All supporters will have their names and messages shown during Character Camp YouTube videos, and the impact of your donations will be shared in both videos and on this website. Art is worth sharing.

Tip: Visual Storytelling

It's one of the hardest things to do: tell a character's story strictly through their visual design. But Lady Geist from Deadlock here does it quite well. The lock-like ward on her arm shows her struggle against the spirit that possesses her. She is fighting back, unwilling to accept defeat from her past mistakes. It characterizes Lady Geist without saying a word. A small detail that adds so much.Lady Geist from Deadlock by Valve Corp.

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Character Camp is happy to support products and organizations that promote the world of artistic design. Products that prominently feature the use of generative A.I. will not be accepted. Please contact via email with business inquiries.