Character Design Project

In the second year one of the bigger projects that we have to do is the Character Design project. A hybrid of our previous life drawing classes and cinematography, was a pretty mammoth task. Now imaginative drawing is not my forte, I can draw, just not from out of nowhere, as this is was a visual assignment I'll just let you look, so here it all is.

Basic turnaround of my character Trixie. She is only supposed to be 15cm tall and lives as a part of children's imagination, so she only comes out to play when adults aren't around.

To reflect the audience she was aimed at I gave her some brightly coloured clothing that didn't have too much detail, as quite frankly small children are less concerned with the details and more about the storyline.

 

And here is some facial expressions, I felt most comfortable with giving her a manga style face as I have been drawing that style for a while. The tips of her hat were also supposed to be an extension of her attitude and are positioned as such to reflect her mood.

Just some random poses, I tried to make her look like a playful character, but I also wanted to give her a bit of an attitude, sort of like Tinkerbell but less angry.

 

And some various angled run cycles....

 

To accompany the various drawing we also had to produce a short storyline that would show off the character and any props they might have. So I decided to do a little story aimed again at children centred around one item. I thought this suited the target audience as again small children don't like to be distracted from unnecessary background information, in most cases they just want the action, so I chose a plain white much like the show Pocoyo.

So I was pretty satisfied with my outcome it wasn't the most stunning piece of work, but I worked hard on it and I think it showed. Hope you enjoyed this post

Rachel