Week 1 – Form and Shape

This was our first week after the induction week, after some introductions and ice breaking we started to look at form and shape in character design, exploring the underlying forms that make up a character and what makes a character design good.

This weeks assignment was to practice studying & drawing underlying forms – taking our 3 favourite animated characters and studying their underlying form – tracing over and finding their construction forms. I actually found this exercise very useful, how the most popular and effective characters in animation are constructed by common basic shapes is something i never really considered – let alone broke down and analysed. Specific shapes being used to add weight to the character or to convey certain personality/traits to the audience without them even realising was very interesting to see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see I tried to choose designs that would be distinct from each other, but when broken down enough, they all shared basic shapes in common.

 

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