Character Design
29.08.2022 - 28.11.2022 (Week 1 - Week 14)
Metta Angelica (0349095)
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Characte Design
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LECTURE
Week 1
This is our first week in class, to start with the class the lecturer explain about our module as well with the MIB (Module Information Booklet). So far, the first task of this module is to create a character.
Task 1 is divided into 2 section, the first part is concept world creation, and the 2nd part character conceptual development.
The first thing the lecturer discuss is the 1st section, world building. The lecturer has also provided a slide for better visuals.
After presenting and explaining, we were told to make a moodboard of our chosen world (Anime, game, etc.) and character ideas for our next class.
Week 2
Today we will be showing our moodboards of the world building we have choosen and what kind of chracter are we going to make.
After presentation and feedback session are done, next we are moving to second part of the task which is conceptual developement.
In this task, I need to make 8 silhouette of my character, 4 progressive sketch, and a detailed drawing of my character.
Week 3
This week everyone will present their conceptual character design development. Also, we also need to read about making a human anatomy in the E-books that are already given at week 1. For further learning how to create a human body more easily we can take a look at the video below.
Week 4
For this week, we all just need to continue finishing our characters, and as well make a compilation of all the progress we have make into a slide to be presented next week.
Week 5
This week we are going to present our progress of our task 1 from the beginning until now.
Week 6
This week we are brief of our next task, we will be making our character poses, attack skill, and the final character pose.
Week 10
HERO POSE
Now that you are the last stage of your development, time for you to decide on the Hero Pose for your character. Review back to the processes from previous tasks and come up with a very brief description of how you intend to present your character.
Refer to the description and details following that in
- 21 Draw The Character Designer ebook (2019)
- Chapter 10: Cast of Characters:
- Character Poses pg. 145
For the final execution of the artwork, exercise your illustration skill accordingly. Here you will have to exercise your understanding of colour theory, lighting aspect and soft narrative in creating your design. You can refer to this chapter for details and different styles on how you can achieve best hero pose look for your character:
- 21 Draw Illustrators Guidebook ebook
- Chapter 3: Character Design
Watch: Marc Brunet's How To Draw Better Poses https://youtu.be/7I5xnCEd3Cc
Week 14
This week, we will be presenting our latest progression of our character from task 1 to task 4. The minimum amount for presentation is 10-20 minutes.
INSTRUCTION
Task 1: Personification
A1: Concept World Creation
The first part of the task is to create a compilation of references or ideas, creating a narrative and background stories for the characters.
Moodboard
A2: Character Conceptual Development
Next, after we decide what kind of character we want to make. We continue with the second part of the task, which is conceptual development.
I need to make 8 characters' silhouettes, and progressive sketches as well the black and white of the Characters.
Moodboard
Turn Around Study
After having a good idea of the character design the next task is to create a turn-around of the character.
Moodboard
Final Compilation
Task 2: Concept development
Task 3: Character creation
Final Character and Costume Design
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| Fig. 1 Final Character Design |
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| Fig. 2 Alternative Costume Design |
FEEDBACK
Week 2
Personal Feedback: It has a good silhouette but try working on the design and color, don't be too attached with the snow white design.
Week 4
Personal Feedback: Improve the coloring and clothes. The lecturer also had given a sample picture of previous senior for me to take references for clothes/attire details.
Week 5
General Feedback: Everyone had done well in the presentations.
Week 14
Good character design, but fix the poses.
REFLECTION
I learn many things in this module, It was an enjoyable process to develope my ideas and creating them. There are some hiccups going on at the start of idea developing process, but the feedback given helped me to fix it for a better idea.
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