Creating a Character:
1. Who is the target audience?
- Children
2. In what medium will your character be seen in?
- Cartoon
3. Provide some references to help create your design:
4. Use line qualities and styles to help define your character: soft, round, and light lines = warm. Hard, edges and dark lines = evil
- Warm edges and soft characteristics
5. Use Color
- Bland and sleepy colors
6. Add Accessories
- Nightcap and pajama.
7. Exaggerate characteristics
References for My Animal Character
Part 1: Character Attributes:
5 Physical Attributes:
- Very sluggish
- Slow Moving
- Eyes are heavy
- Has a night cap/wearing pajamas
- Lifeless eyes before sleeping
- An animal: Panda, Sloth, Dog, Rooster, Frog, Bats
- Arch Nemisis that makes noise: Woodpecker, Beaver,
5 Personality Attributes:
- Grumpy
- Sleepy
- Angry
- Doesn't get mad easily but must resort to it in order to stop his nemisis or noise/so tired that they don't wake up.
- Doesn't care too much about anything.
5 Lifestyle Attributes:
- Doesn't sleep a lot
- Whenever he tries to sleep he can't because annoyed by somebody/something/he's so deep asleep that he literally just sleeps through every possible thing that might happen to him -> He goes through a crazy adventure in his sleep where he gets moved by things and goes through dangerous scenarios only to survive and return unscathed. Wakes up after the end of the chaos.
- Can't stop the noise and ends up getting hurt in the process
Part 2: Bio-Paragraph
My character, a rooster who only wants to fall asleep but can't because of the his arch nemesis, a woodpecker, is made for an animated t.v series and appeals to children 5-16 years of age. My character design includes a lot of exaggeration of body parts which include the eyes, and the droopiness/heaviness of the body to portray my characters tired and lazy personality. These qualities need to be identified as the animated series would be about the main protagonist, Remy The Rooster, and their goal to find a quiet place to sleep. However, whenever they find a place to sleep their arch-animal, Willy the Woodpecker, would create noise, forcing my character to try and stop them. This would create crazy and dangerous scenarios for my main character and put them into constant conflict. The entertainment would come from the main characters constant struggle to stop his antagonist and the pain he recieves from it. His design would accompany the short animated comedy series as it would add a sense of irony to the context of the story: all he wants to do is sleep but he can't! We, the audience, feel bad for him but at the same time want to see him fail as we don't want the woodpecker to get caught by him either!
Part 3: Sketches
Part 5: Turnaround Drawing
