Character Development

Week 7- Week 11

Facial Expression

Week 6 | 12 April 2018

Facial Expression influences the body part of a character. If the character is happy , you have to draw the "squash" face and if the character is sad, you have to strech the face. Animation is all about exaggerate.

I draw my little sister's facial expression

How to character Design?

Week 5 | 5 April 2018

Character designer play an important role in animation production. He or she must know all the story plot before someone else to create a decent character for the story.

A good character design must attract a good attention from the audiences. It must be good in appealing and memorable to the story. Miss Sheila said that a very good character design can stay alone in one story even without the supporting role.

   

the picture above is my very first character designs during semester 1 and I use them for semester 2 because they are memorable for me but,,, it might be too simple?

so here's the character development for "the lost children"

Caricature

Week 4 | 29 March 2018

What is a Caricature? Caricature is a part of cartoon, its emphasize the characteristic on the face. Started in 80th century , related to a politic to form a propaganda. Caricature today, you need to ask for a permission before drawing someone face.

this is the work in progress of my Caricature. I hate drawing realism but this is kinda of fun. I drew my friend, Nadh. Miss Sheila also mentioned that caricature can be over exaggerate either simplify them.

and this is the final work.

Basic Shape of a character

Week 3, 22 March 2018

We learnt about the basic shape of making a character. Female's character are drawn based on a Pear shape, male based on square. The shape that we draw will give the information for the characteristic. 

we need to exaggerate the form of a character to make it more interesting and extra attractive. We can also make the audience confused about the characteristic of a character. For an example, a "Hero" who looks thin or villain, which mostly seen in animated series or a comic that i used to read.

here, is my work progress

this is actually a random doodle, because i was lazy to find a reference

However after some warm-up doodle, I finally remember some artist that can be a great references for me:-

and here my piece for today , I have a problem on saving the files, that is why it looks low resolution

The final work

INTRODUCTION

WEEK 2 , 13 March 2018

Miss Sheila introduced us about Photoshop Software, basic of using a Wacom. Photoshop is a complicated software, I have been used Paint Tool Sai as a main tool to make art for three years. Its time for me to try the new software, i guess?

Our first assessment is to draw Circle, Square and triangle. However, Miss Sheila mentioned that she want to see a perfection for the user who already use Wacom for years. So this is my work.