'My 7 Steps To Great Character Design' - Tutorial

Aron Blaise is an animation feature film director and wildlife artist, whom worked for Disney for twenty one years. In his tutorial, he gives a guide of seven steps of the process of creating a character, .
1. Research; Know about your character, know about the real thing. (his example was researching polar bears).
2. Learn to draw the real thing.
3. Know your character and your story.
4. Know the universe, rules, physics and design conceit.
5. caricature
6. Experiment with drawing.
7. Experiment with mood, expressions, different character reference sheets.