Premise - Further character designs



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 After speaking with Alan I was told to look at the cartoon company UPA. 

 UPA is an animation studio that was founded in 1943 and owned by Universal Studios. The company started by creating training films for WW2 and then progressed to create movie shorts such as Mr.Magoo. They then moved on to create TV series such as Gerald McBoing-Boing and later moved on to create animations such as 1001 Arabian Nights. The company also focused on creating cartoons focusing on the economy at the time. The company then closed in 2000.


I decided to create mood boards showing UPA's popular cartoon shows in order to look at their character design style to see whether I could adopt any of the styles. Looking at the first mood board, I liked the style of the Gerald McBoing-Boing show and how the characters are more rounded. I also liked the colours that UPA used in their shows as they are all very bright, something that I wish to adopt into my project.

From this research I then proceeded to look at the face shapes used within the cartoons. I decided that the more rounded face shapes were more suitable for my characters. I then continued to look at my own face shape to see which was more suited to me. While experimenting with face shape, I also looked at how the colours of the face could be shown. As shown below, I liked the idea of having the face's colours slightly away from the front of the face.


After looking at the character's face shapes. I then looked into how the female characters were shaped. Specifically the women. I then decided to sketch different was in which my body could be shown. I found that in UPA cartoons, the female body was usually elongated and that the women had longer necks. I looked into how my character would look with this adaptation.

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