Digital Character Design and Research
Laetitia Desplat
Year 3 of Creative Media
Researches of character sheets :
http://fc09.deviantart.net/ fs41/f/2009/036/7/9/May_Character_Sheet_1_by_sindaran_ainu.jpg http://www.sisterclaire. com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/ turnaround_small2.jpg http://fc05.deviantart.net/ fs11/i/2006/240/6/1/Character_ sheet___Frog_by_celesse.jpg http://images2.fanpop.com/image/polls/435000/435719_1273043226377_full.jpg http://801-gds-vis-design-sp10.wikispaces.com/file/view/final_boy_sheet.jpg/127569475/754x324/final_ boy_sheet.jpg I wanted to have some examples of simple and cute character sheets.
Sketches of my design character
I wanted to do a cute character, i decided to take the size of two head for that. I began to draw a little cute girl, then i had the idea to mix the appearance of a bird and the cute girl. But this idea was crazy and i appreciated that character. The last one my favourite one was looking like crazy and cute. So i improved the design of this one trying a lot of details for the perfect final character. First, i searched the kind of eyes, the most important thing for a cute character.
Then, i wanted to find the design of the head with the kind of eyes i drew. At first, the result was weird but interesting then it looked like too much to a fly whereas i wanted to create a half human half swan. I’ve finally chosen the round glasses which make the eyes bigger than usual. The haircut style seemed me important because it’s also a part of the image of the character, so staying simple, i chose the pointed haicut style but quite long like that it was not so severe or crazy.
For the arms, i wanted to keep the simple shape of a bird’s wing and then following the manner of a human hand.
Character sheets
Character story My character is half swan and half human in a world where humans don’t exist anymore and the bird are the main intelligent specie on the planet. The world you know looks like a bit to this one but more colourful and more natural. The humans left the cities, empty and the nature won against the buildings. The name of my character is Sally but everybody call her Glassy because of her huge glasses. She’s the only one in Flhigh School (fly + Hight School) who can’t fly correctly. Everyone makes fun on her because, of course, she’s wearing ugly and enormous glasses but also because she has a big head. Everybody is different, she replies them, but that everybody laughs on her. Every birds are different but well proportionned exept Sally. She’s a lonely person who likes dreaming. But she’s not sad to be alone, the truth is she’s happy like that and doesn’t mind that the others thing she’s weird with her human face. Birds are stupid, she doesn’t understand why they need to fly against the wind , to make eggs for nothing and to squeak for everything. She lives in a city of Swan just next to the lake where the story of Swan Lake taked place a long time ago. Sometimes Sally goes to this lake and she let herself dreaming about a life with humans. Why is she only half ? How come is it possible, the human doesn’t exist anymore ! Once, whereas she was dreaming of a new life, something important and noisy happens in the town. But when she arrives to see what happened, nobody is there. During the game, Sally’s going to search where are the other birds and to discover the humans specie still exists.