Tia Whitehead - BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts

Here are some of my character designs for both the villain and other scientists within my story. I haven't decided yet on which of these characters below will be my villain and which of the other characters will be the other scientists. I have also experimented with different eyes for each of the characters to see which I'd prefer.  For these designs I created the skin colours using acrylic paint and then used black Biro pen and coloured pencils to add more details and facial features.

For the first half of the lesson we were taught about how the shaping and spacing of a character can cause for them to be perceived differently by an audience. We were then given a group of characters to design, looking at their shaping and how that effects the character overall.  The group that I was given was 'Space Trooper'. I created a collection of  character drawings.  Below are some of the drawings that I then proceeded to design further:   Here are the developed drawings: I also created a new character based on a different character. Once we had completed that exercise, we then moved onto looking at character silhouettes and how if a character has a detailed and interesting silhouette, then the character will be interesting. I was given the group 'Medieval Gothic' and I created two silhouettes: Here is a silhouette of a dark priest that I created. I was told that in order to make th...