Animated Characters - The Drawing Board

Our goal is to create an animated character; our first task was to create a mind map of all the potential characters we could use to animate and then decide on our favourite one. One of the briefs we had to follow was to design these characters in a similar fashion as to how other street artists had designed there characters and tags. My initial thoughts was to create eyes with limbs as these are memorable designs however, whilst creating my characters I had saw this is what a lot of others had though so I decided to use something else. I experimented with different designs focusing on creating characters featuring blends of contrasts.


- mind map -

In the end I decided to use my pumpkin character; I liked this design because it was an interesting character. I thought the wings were quite visually striking and the idea of contrasting something associated with Halloween and evil (the pumpkin) and more holy and positive elements (the angle wings and halo) appealed to me.

My next goal will be to illustrate this using Adobe Illustrator, eventually moving it over into Adobe After Effects to animate it. Before I can do that however I will need to draw the animation's frames similarly to how I drew every frame in the bouncing ball exercise; I will keep in mind the problems that occurred before and correct them this time whilst drawing my new animation.