25 Best Character Design Courses Online
We compared 25 Character Design courses currently listed on Udemy and Coursera, priced from $19.99 to $199.99. 1 comes from a named university or institution, including Japan Animation & Manga College. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 25
- Price range
- $19.99 – $199.99
- Providers
- Udemy, Coursera
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 25 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Udemy, Coursera, matched to "character design" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $19.99 to $199.99, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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1
Character Design: A Complete Guide to Drawing 2D Characters
Do you want to be able to draw characters from your imagination? Perhaps you want to draw characters for video games or movies? Or start your own comic series? If you said yes, this is the perfect course to learn charact...
$199.99listed price -
2
Learn Concepting and Character Design with Photoshop
This course will cover the design phase of one character meant for a video game production and transferable to other media, from first conception to fully rendered splash or key art for promotional purposes. Students wil...
$19.99listed price -
3
Complete Character Design Course: Draw Your Dream Character
Design Your Dream Character!Welcome to the Complete Character Design Course, where you'll be designing your dream character from nothing!Do you want to know all the techniques and skills you need to create your own amazi...
$84.99listed price -
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Blender 3D Fundamentals & Character Design
Offered by Skillshare
This Specialization is intended for aspiring 3D artists, Blender beginners, and creative professionals seeking to develop practical 3D modeling, procedural design, and character creation skills. Through three courses tau...
$49.00listed price -
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Character ART Academy: Complete Character Design Course
What is Character Art Academy?Character Art Academy is a learn-anywhere video course where you learn how to draw appealing and professional characters for games, animation, manga, comics and more. In this course, you wil...
$29.99listed price -
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Manga Drawing Basic Course / Story Writing & Storyboarding
Offered by Japan Animation & Manga College
* There are no feedback from the pros in this course.In this course, the members challenge themselves to create original manga based on the Japanese folklore, "Momotaro".We had Kei Natsumi-sensei, a manga artist, draw a...
$34.99listed price -
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3DS Max Texturing: Apply, Create & Refine
Offered by EDUCBA
Master the professional workflow of character texturing in 3ds Max by learning how to apply, create, and refine realistic textures using Photoshop and UV unwrapping techniques. In this course, you will build practical sk...
$49.00listed price -
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Unity Game Creation Bootcamp - Unity 6 Compatible
Offered by Packt
This specialization features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress throug...
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Level Up! The Guide to Great Video Game Design
Offered by John Wiley & Sons
This specialization provides a comprehensive journey through video game design, starting from foundational concepts to advanced mechanics and monetization strategies. Learners begin by exploring core principles such as i...
$49.00listed price -
10
Animated Storytelling: Emotive Animation in Procreate Dreams
Offered by Skillshare
Plan and execute an animated short from storyboarding to exporting your final animation with Procreate Dreams. As a multi-disciplinary creative, your instructor, Smitesh Mistry, loves exploring his creativity through dif...
$49.00listed price -
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Manga Art School: The Complete Anime & Manga Drawing Course
What is Manga Art School?Manga Art School is a 2-6 week learn-anywhere video course where you learn to become adept at drawing professional and authentic Japanese Manga and Anime character stylization. I’ve hand-crafted...
$199.99listed price -
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Learn 3D Animation - The Ultimate Blender A-Z Guide
This course has been completely remade & is fully 5.0+ compatible!Learn the A-Z's that you need to be able to create amazing 3D art and animations with the popular 3D art program, "Blender."Beginner to...
$189.99listed price -
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MidJourney V6 ai + ChatGPT + Create Consistent Character
This Course will be always updated with new midjourney features :)AI-generated artwork has constantly been improving in terms of its accessibility and functionality.An exemplary tool in this regard is Midjourney V5, whic...
$199.99listed price -
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Orc Rider and Bull Creature Creation in Zbrush
Do you have problems modelling creature anatomy, both humanoid and animal-like?Are your fantasy characters always a little off somehow? Are you ready to learn how to make a realistic high poly model, Armour, clothes, wea...
$99.99listed price -
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Crea tu primer personaje en Blender - Car and Bear
¡Bienvenidos al curso "Crea tu primer personaje en Blender - Car and Bear"! En este viaje emocionante, dirigido a principiantes entusiastas, te sumergirás en el universo de Blender desde cero. Comenzaremos las primeras c...
$19.99listed price -
16
Build Armatures for Stop Motion
Introduction In this course we will be creating an armature for stop motion. Stop motion movies are a hit with moviegoers of all demographics. We’ll create an armature that you can use in your own projects. The course i...
$49.99listed price -
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The Complete ProCreate Masterclass Course
With regular updates and a thriving community, this course will turn your iPad into the most powerful drawing and painting tool on earth, using Procreate and Apple Pencil! Live drawing and painting demonstrations enhance...
$189.99listed price -
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Crie Seu Personagem de Anime do Zero (Unity e Unreal)
O que você vai aprender?Conceito e Design InicialComo planejar seu personagem, definir proporções no estilo anime e criar um design original.Técnicas para selecionar referências visuais que auxiliem na modelagem e textur...
$34.99listed price -
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Complete Nomad Sculpt Course: Beginner to Expert
Have you ever wanted to create your own 3D characters, props, or creatures, without a big PC setup or expensive desktop software? Nomad Sculpt lets you model, sculpt, and paint directly on your tablet, phone or computer....
$49.99listed price -
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Hyper Realistic Character Likeness Portrait for Films
Corazon Bryant always had an artistic bone in her body. When she was only 2 years old, she would make detailed drawings on her mother's wall. Her mother loved the drawings so much, she decided to keep them. With the enco...
$94.99listed price -
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How to Draw Cute Cartoon Characters
LEARN THE SECRETS OF DRAWING CUTE CARTOONS! Most Recent Update: Digital Drawing SectionPrevious Update: New Video Lecture - Male Hair ExamplesPrevious Update: Practice PDFs / 20+ N...
$54.99listed price -
22
Anime Academy: Characters and Illustrations
Anime Academy: Characters and Illustrations is your go-to for designing your own anime characters as well as creating illustrations. This course will take you from not knowing how to draw anime, to learning how to draw e...
$24.99listed price -
23
Personagens com o Blender 4.0 e Substance 3D Painter
Nesse curso iremos criar 3 personagensuma pequena criatura e dois humanoidescom um tema levemente de terror estilizadoPassaremos por todo o processo de criação de personagemusando o Blender 4.0 + e o Substance 3D Painter...
$39.99listed price -
24
Drawing Eyes Master Course: Drawing Concepts & Techniques
Unlock the Art of Drawing Eyes: A Comprehensive, Engaging MasterclassCreate more stunning and beautiful drawings at another level, with your - Portraits, Figure Drawings, Life Drawings, Drawings From Imagination, C...
$109.99listed price -
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Nomad Sculpt 3D: Stylized Female Pt 3: Hair & Final Touches
Offered by Skillshare
The final course in this specialization focuses on the finishing details that make a stylized character truly shine. With Dave Reed as your guide, you’ll dive into sculpting dynamic hair, refining final surface details,...
$49.00listed price
Best Character Design Courses Online compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 25 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $199.99, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $180.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Udemy and Coursera. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 1 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Japan Animation & Manga College — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 18 September 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.