Tia Whitehead - BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts

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I have experimented by looking at how different eyes would look on my character after feedback from Alan. I have created this by drawing over the orthographic designs on Photoshop. 1.  2.   3. 4.   5.

I have now drawn the official front and side view for my diabetes monster. After following Alan's advice, I have increased the monster's size in the side view. This makes the monster seem more realistic proportions wise and cuter. 

After finalising the character design for the diabetes monster, I came up with a few colours that I believe would be suitable. I looked into colours like red to be suitable as the character relates to blood and blood sugar. I then moved on to look at brighter colours to see how I felt it would change the character. I also decided to experiment with how the blood sugar molecules could change on the outfit to relate to the character's blood sugar  (glucose)   levels. Once I had looked into that I then selected two of my favourite designs to see how they would look in detail. I also added a light blue colour to the 'L' on the gauge on his stomach to represent low blood sugar and red to the 'H' to show high blood sugar. I then experimented further with the amount and size of the sugar particles on the outfit. I believe that the red character is one of the strongest ones that I have drawn which is why I chose it to see how I could change it further t...

For my Diabetes monster I came up with three different character designs. Thumbnail 1 show the character with long legs, thumbnail 2 shows the character with very short legs and thumbnail 3 shows him with medium length legs. I have been told that the stronger designs are thumbnails 1 and 3. This resulted in me selecting thumbnail 1 as my final design. Now I have officially chosen the design for the character, I will now look into how colour will play a part in showing his mood and character. I will also look at showing the texture on his outfit as sugar crystals which will increase in quantity the higher his blood sugar becomes and lower the lower it becomes. I will then also show his change in blood sugar through the gauge shown on the front of his outfit.  Alan also suggested that as I have nicknamed my character 'Betes' he could also have a 'Tinkerbell like' companion called Dia who floats about above or beside him, causing mischief. 

Below are character designs that I completed today for my diabetes character. After speaking to Alan and listening to Phil's advise I decided to merge the character's head and body together so there is no neck. While I was drawing I also looked into how the arms and legs would be attached to the character and how the character's blood sugar levels could effect the character's colour, texture and sugar level gauge on his stomach.

In the facial designs for the character I have decided to add facial features such as a mouth and eyebrows to help show the character's emotion and to fit in well with the rest of the character's design. 

Below are some character designs that I have created for the diabetes character looking at a similar style to UPA. I decided to go with face number 22 on the face design post. Arm designs: Leg designs:

For the Diabetes monster's face I have decided to look into how the character's eyes, nose and mouth could differentiate and also how the character's mood or blood glucose levels could effect its colour. I currently like the idea that the character has minimal facial features such as thumbnail 22 and 24. I am looking at making it so the character is relatable so it will look similar to a human but not completely.

After speaking more to Alan about my character design, he suggested to look more at character designs such as the one shown below: We then also looked at the Disney Flour Sack again to look at how a character's personality can be shown very easily through posture and movement. From the chat with Alan I then drew different versions of my Diabetes Monster character to see how I could suggest emotion through a limited amount of shapes. I decided to look at how my character would show a variety of emotions. Including happiness, sadness, anger and frustration. I like how I can see each character's emotion even though there is hardly any detail on the character. 

I have drawn more character designs in a similar style to UPA's cartoons that also have my own style incorporated into them. Below are some designs for younger me, I believed that having a circular head showed that this character was younger. I also included pigtails to also suggest this: I then looked at the different skin and hair colours I could use in the character: I created the designs for current me based on how I wear my hair everyday: I then looked at how I could colour my skin and hair: Other face designs for younger me: Here are some clothing designs for younger me, I looked at reference images to get the designs: Here I looked at how my body is shaped and how that would effect my character: Clothing designs for current me, I created the designs based on clothes that I usually wear: