Character Design

Character Design

Character design is a combination of physical traits and narrative. narrative or storyline defines personally, gives context, genre, location and setting. therefore has to feed in to the look and design of the character.

The face is the primary channel to express emotion. a reason for many large headed characters,

A lot can be said with posture and body language.

this allows for personality traits to be indefinable in silhouettes.  

Solarski states that how a character carries their their weight can tell us about their personality,

which body part they lead with is important.

A hero leads with their chest.

someone layed back or lazy leads with their pelvis.

Intelligent characters lead with their head.

A scared character would lead with their knees.

power and dominance revolves around expanding power! expand - take up scale weakness: cover up make yourself small.

Hero leading with chest.

Hercules from walt disney's Hercules.

intelligent character leading with head

Squidward from spongbob square pants

Scared character leading with knees

Shaggy from Scooby Doo

lazy/relaxed character leading with pelvis

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