Characters design

Research of the animation film of Hotel Transylvania

The animation film of 2012 Hotel Transylvania is a kids cartoon story.   The animation style of the characters display of monsters are styled into targeting the story telling to more of a younger audience, from the use of tone, and the family-friendly style character of monsters.

The characters of the monster are drawn in a more obvious character-building shapes and doesn’t hide the exaggeration of the monster body range of shapes keeping all character unique and interesting each time they appear on screen. The animation of the film likes to have exaggerated physical movements. Making it move more liquefied and cartoonish flow when moving character on scene for most character and not fully relying on basic human skeleton block structures for some character. Also, the characters facial expression are seen as being highly exaggerate it and very smooth roundish faces which is often to symbolised friendliest in the character which is a common universal telling in animators.

 

The movies characters design drawing for the hotel butler

 

 

My own drawing

I made the four zombies butlers in similar body formed shapes to the main characters of the show I researched.

 

 

3d sculpting of characters

 

UV Mapping

 

From her i had a error problem that would not let me bake the file to make a normal map

 

 

Amatures

 

 

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