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The Top 25 influential and inspiring Character Designers

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Pura Art

Art Director, Munich

#1 ranked Character Designer

I'm a multidisciplinary designer and art director with a background in painting and a strong focus on visual storytelling. After graduating in Painting, I expanded my practice into graphic design, audiovisual design, branding, and creative direction. With 7 years of experience in visual design and...

Character Designer, Digital Painter, Video Editor
Munich: Germany, Tehran
Munich: Germany

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Nanda van Dijk

Freelance Character artist at Nanda Creates, Almere

Hello, let me introduce myself. My name is Nanda * and I have the best job in the world. (my opinion) I Design, Create and Animate Characters, bring them to life and give them fun and entertaining personality's. Character Animation is my passion and I always try to push myself to give my...

Character Designer
Almere: Netherlands
Almere: Netherlands

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Mariano Gabriel Vidal

Animation Artist at Freelance, Buenos Aires

#3 ranked Character Designer

Mariano Vidal has over 30 years of professional experience in the Animation field. His areas of expertise include Animation and Art Direction, Traditional Character Animation, Character Designing, Visual Development, Concept and Inspirational Art, Storyboarding, and Illustration. Over the last few...

Character Designer, Animation Artist, Illustrator
Buenos Aires: Argentina
Buenos Aires: Argentina

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Kim Griffin

Freelance Character Designer, Illustrator, Animato at Upwork, London

#4 ranked Character Designer

Hi! I'm Kim. Welcome to my profile! I specialise in book illustration and visual development for animation - including concept art, character and prop design, and character and scene layout. I also offer 2D animation services. In terms of qualifications, in 2019, I graduated with a degree in Design...

Character Designer, 2D Artist, Illustrator
Sunshine Coast, Sydney: Australia, Melbourne: Australia
London: United Kingdom

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Zuriñe Aguirre

Illustrator at Zuriñe Aguirre illustrator, 41704

Hi! I am Zuriñe, illustrator and designer. But you can call me Zu. I am from Vitoria but I live in Seville, in Spain. This summer I'm living in Cheltenham, UK. I like drawing, indian ink, textures, textile design, children books, different and special things... and my favourite cartoon character...

Character Designer, Graphic Designer, Illustrator
London, Andalucia, California
Seville, 41704: Spain

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Piotr Knabe

Puppet Maker, Prop Builder, Sculptor, Designer at freelance, Poland

I'm a versatile, freelance artist with experience in fabrication, mould making, casting, creative engineering, character design, illustration and photography. Since 2001 I've been working as a sculptor, designer and builder of puppets, models, props, creatures, and prosthetic pieces for film,...

Character Designer, Prop Builder, Puppet Maker
Lodz, Glasgow: United Kingdom, London: United Kingdom
Lodz, Poland: Poland

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Mayte CG

UI, Motion & Visual Artist, Basque Country

#7 ranked Character Designer

Hi! I'm Mayte CG, a freelance UI, motion, visual artist and designer from Spain. Right now I'm very focused on experimenting more and more with 3D, motion graphics and animation. I also create album art & design for bands and musicians at MAD, a two-artist studio specialized in art for heavy...

Character Designer, Motion Graphics Designer, Digital Illustrator
Irun
Basque Country: Spain

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ibrahem ghareeb

Freelance Storyboard Artist, illustrator and visual development artist at Freelance artist/Illustrator, Cairo

storyboard artist, concept artist, concept character artist and illustrator Thanks

Character Designer, Concept Artist, Storyboard Artist
London: United Kingdom, Vancouver: Canada, Montreal: Canada
Cairo: Egypt

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David Venon

Freelance art life coach/artist, London

Mixed media artist, community management, art life coaching, art curation, public speaking. I'm open for any creative project especially those around helping communities through creative exercises and art as therapy to improve mental health.

Character Designer, Illustrator, Costume Designer
London: United Kingdom
London: United Kingdom

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Scott Beresford

3D Aritst at Shock Engine, England

I'm currently working as a freelance graphic artist on various projects, ranging from 3D characters, environments, animations for games and apps to 2D user interfaces, HUD designs, websites and adverts. Having achieved a 1st class BS honours degree in Concept Game Design at Staffordshire...

Character Designer, Texture Artist/Texture Painter, 3D Artist
London: United Kingdom
London, England: United Kingdom

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Dave Merrell

Artist / illustrator at Dave Merrell Artwork Ltd, Lancashire

Experienced illustrator and designer with a demonstrated history of producing work for industry leading brands across the globe. Highly skilled in illustration, graphics and typography. Strong arts and design professional.

Character Designer, Illustrator
Greater Manchester
Manchester, Lancashire: United Kingdom

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Oriol Vidal

Illustrator, barcelona

Hi, I'm an Illustrator-storyboard artist. Working in both fields, I have illustrated children books for publishing houses worldwide and developed storyboards/character designs for several animation companies.

Character Designer, Storyboard Artist, Illustrator
Barcelona: Spain
barcelona: Spain

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Mostafa Younis

Concept Artist at Filmmaking, Gizah

Mostafa Mohamed Younis was born in Abu Dhabi 1989, he then moved to Cairo in 2002. Younis holds two BScs, one from Faculty of Artistic Education, Cairo University, class 2010. The other from The Institute of Cinema, Animation Department, class 2016. He participated in several major exhibitions...

Character Designer, Concept Artist, Storyboard Artist
Cairo: Egypt, Dubai: United Arab Emirates, Hamburg: Germany
Gizah: Egypt

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Davide Lazzarini

Luzern

#14 ranked Character Designer

Looking forward for completely new job opportunities as Concept Artist / Character Artist / Illustrator in the Gaming Industry.

Character Designer, Concept Artist, Digital Artist
Rest of World
Luzern: Switzerland

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Èlia Meraki

⚘ illustrator & Character Designer & Muralist ⚘ at Èlia Meraki, Edinburgh

#15 ranked Character Designer

Hi! I was born in Barcelona, Catalonia in 1986. Currently I am based in Edinburgh, Scotland. My vocation of illustration started long time ago, even being an autodidact all my life, I have Academic and Profesional degree in Illustration and Animation. I believe the illustration is an...

Character Designer, Illustrator, Digital Illustrator
London: United Kingdom, Barcelona: Spain, Edinburgh, Glasgow
Edinburgh: United Kingdom

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Jessica Weston

Character Designer, North Lincolnshire

Hello! Marketing officer for Best Training in Grimsby. BA Creative & Interactive Design graduate, I specialised in illustration and character design. Having built needle felting as a hobby I then decided to merge this with illustraiion and character design. I am currently selling items of my work...

Character Designer, Creative Artworker, Illustrator
England
Ulceby, North Lincolnshire: United Kingdom

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Mijat Mijatovic

Character Designer at Freelance, Gornji Milanovac

I am an award winning , character designer, illustrato and comic artist from Serbia. At the present I have more than fifteen years of professional experience working for many clients ( animation studios, publishing houses, advertising agencies....)My last animation project was work on the animated...

Character Designer, Illustrator, Cartoonist
Belgrade: Serbia (Republic of)
Gornji Milanovac: Serbia (Republic of)

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keeley sheppard

Illustrator at Freelance, London

Highly skilled in Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash ad TV Paint. 2 years' freelance experience of working on a wide range of projects with Tundra Group London, including idents, music videos, printwork and character animation. I am a people person and work well creating work collaboratively, but...

Character Designer, Creative Artworker, Illustrator
London
London: United Kingdom

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Ellie Martin

Character Designer, Atlanta

Ellie Martin is a character designer with over ten years of experience, including leadership roles on Marvel and MTV properties. Ellie is skilled in multiple disciplines across the 2D animation pipeline, and she approaches projects with curiosity, efficiency, and creative problem solving.

Character Designer, Storyboard Artist, Illustrator
Atlanta: United States
Atlanta: United States

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Andrzej Kuziola

illustrator, 3d artist, graphic designer at freelance, Edinburgh

#20 ranked Character Designer

I am an experienced illustrator, 3d artist and designer based in Edinburgh. I create stylised illustrations, mixing 2d and 3d techniques. I am a creative, well-organised person with good time management therefore I can provide high quality works in straight estimated time always meeting...

Character Designer, 3D Artist, Illustrator
Edinburgh: United Kingdom
Edinburgh: United Kingdom

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Marta Andresen

Character Designer, Guimarães

Hi, I'm a character designer, storyboarder, with a few skills in other general skills. I've directed a few short films, and a few games before, and I'm currently undergoing a few personal projects while I'm looking for work! I like Dnd, doing animal rescue, playing games, reading and hanging out...

Character Designer, Project Designer, Storyboard Artist
Guimarães
Guimarães: Portugal

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Lewis Joseph

Illustrator at LeJoseREX, Staten Island

Hi. My name is Lewis Joseph and I'm an illustrator and logo designer based in Staten Island, NY. I am passionate about minimalist design and very detail oriented. You can also visit my website LeJoseRex.weebly and my instagram/lejoserex account Thank You

Character Designer, Concept Artist, Storyboard Artist
staten island
Staten Island: United States

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jenna Rushforth

Graduate Illustrator

Newly Graduated Illustrator with a passion to explore and expand illustration techniques. Constantly changing style to achieve the highest quality outcome. Usual day consists of researching upcoming and established illustrators and extracting influence to improve my own style and then producing mock...

Character Designer, Animation Design Assistant, Illustrator
London, Wales
United Kingdom

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James Parker

Teacher at Recruitment Agency, London

My passion for creating interest and enthusiasm around character designs is what fascinates me the most and influences, further developing my portfolio into the creative media industry in freelance and character design.

Character Designer, Digital Illustrator, 2D Artist
London: United Kingdom, California, Paris: France
London: United Kingdom

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Catherine Wood

Character Designer

Hi, - A little about me. I'm Catherine L. Practicing artist, with a degree from York St John University (UK). My art interest and focus lies in illustration art- experimenting in both digital art (using iPad, SketchBook Pro, Art Set and other programs such as Photoshop) and traditional...

Character Designer, Animation Design Assistant, Illustrator
London: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

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