EP: Character Ideas

Although I wasn't having much luck with creating an ending for my story, mapping out my ideas in thumbnail form has given me an insight into how I want my characters to behave and react to their environments and the events happening around them. In particular, I have a very strong idea of the personality I want my main character to possess. I know for certain that I want my character to be female and I want her to have a strong sense of curiosity and adventure but I also want her to be quite stubborn and grumpy.

With this in mind, I began to do some research into how I wanted my character to look and the drawing styles I wanted to explore for my animation.

Drawing style and main character reference

Raven reference

Other character reference

I knew that I wanted to create my animation using digital animation, and focus on using textures and different brushes, so I focused on finding visuals that demonstrated the use of textures and a range of materials. Although I really like the idea of using traditional media, I feel that it would be better to create the animation digitally, as I am much quicker at it this way and it will allow me to create more work to a better standard.

However, I only really focused on the raven in terms of design, whilst the other two boards focused on textures and materials. I like the idea of creating a simple design, but one that still conveys texture to somewhat replicate a pencil texture. This is something I want reflected throughout the whole animation and is something I will experiment with before moving onto final character designs later on down the line.