Final Character Design Lesson

The final assignment of the character design course was to take what we had learned about stylizing characters and to create a new version of our original characters from the first assignment and put it side by side with our first try. On the right is the newer version.
I used what I learned about simplifying and stylizing, achieving equal volumes and balance, among other design principles to create the new version of the character.

Week 7 Character Design

This week we created the six main expressions for our character: Happiness, Sadness, Anger, Surprise, Fear, and Disgust.
Then we created two body attitudes of our choosing.

Week 6 Character Design

This week we chose either our Jekyll or Hyde character to create turn arounds of.
(I chose my Hyde character.)
The point of a turn around is for the animator to know how the character looks form all angles: front, front 3/4, side, and back 3/4.

Week 5 Character Design

 

 

This week we had to create finished versions of our  Jekyll and Hyde characters. The process is as follows: start with a blue pencil, draw over it in regular pencil, draw over that in ink (or scan it in and draw over it in Photoshop).

Week 4 Character Design

In the fourth week of my Character Design class, the instructor asked to us to draw features from life (hands, eyes, noses, mouths, and ears) as well as cartoon versions.
These are a bunch of hands I drew, which I really focused on as they tend to be a weak point for me.

Week 3 Part 2 Character Design

For the second assignment this week we had to give multiple options of heads and bodies for our Jekyll and Hyde characters and then to create a fully formed version from our options. After seeing everything the instructor said he liked the bottom left head for Hyde and the top left head for Jekyll. So I ended up going with a variation on those which I used in Week 4.

Week 3 Part 1 Character Design

Week 3 of my character design class was all about creating variety in head shape while keeping in mind a basic understanding of how the skull works. The second part was learning how to carry over realistic heads into caricature. The assignment was to do a realistic portrait of the "bowler hat man" as well as three or more caricatures of the same man using different head shapes.