Character design - Lesson 4 - Posing and character design



Character posing

For the first part of the day we focused on how characters are posed and how their poses relate to their emotions and status. 

In the lecture we were put into groups of three and given 10 poses to complete. During this part of the lecture one person stood in front of the two other people in the group and posed while the other two drew. Below are the drawings that I completed. We were told to draw stick figures so that it was easier for us to draw.





For the second part of the lecture we focused on our own characters. I decided on how the story was going to unfold in my animation and selected the bugs that I would use as characters. 

  • The villain - A centipede. This is as a centipede has multiple legs and due to this he would be able to carry multiple guns in the story. Justin and I also looked further at centipedes and Justin suggested that as the character is long it could almost act as though it is two separate characters e.g. the character's top half and the character's top half. 
  • The sheriff - A small bug. I decided to make the main character a small bug which is the sheriff of the town. This is so that when he stands up to the centipede, the centipede's size begins to threaten the character. The character is also rounded to show that he is of no threat to any of the other background characters.





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