BDM126 Character Ideas

For our first lesson of Animation Principles we drew basic shapes with a light source and experimented with different shading techniques, 

Practicing shading techniques on basic shapes

Today we experimented further with drawing characters. Animation characters are fundamentally made from different basic shapes. When different shapes are put together they create different faces which are able to tell us subtly about the character and their unique personality.

A Family

These three characters came to mind from a short story that I have written in the past, I particularly like the mother as she portrays the character traits well, her character is Obsessive Compulsive and a very neat individual with a stand-offish personality.

Greek Potter

I have considered using a Greek Potter as my main character and am currently exploring what he should look like. He is poor and elder then most Greek men. I would like the audience to be able to empathize with this character so am looking for a  character appearance that will evoke the right feelings.

Ido