✨ Character Design ✨
Week 5 was all about character design! I was finally swapped into a new group, this one was to do with a cyberpunk video game theme. I noticed that there were already a few main characters, so I was a little stumped on what I could design. I went through the groupchat to see if there was anything I could cover and noticed that someone was sending pictures of Luna from Sailor Moon from earlier weeks.
From there I thought it’d be fun to design a companion or pet sidekick sort of character and ran with it! Because the theme of the world was cyberpunk, I went for an androidy/robot feel, whilst drawing inspirations from kids toys, as I wanted the design to be approachable and cute!
I gathered these as references throughout the design process!
From here I asked for input on the designs, my team liked 4 and 3 the most, and I combined them together! I then simplified down the form to make it a little easier to animate and draw. (Also to give it a cuter chibi energy >:]c)
I then took some quick passes at colour! During my brainstorming I had the idea that robotic pets like these had been mass produced to replace real pets, being cute and easy to care for as you dont have to feed or clean up after them. From there I thought there’d be quite a bit of variation in the colours they came in, very much like how furbies are made the same but with different fur colours.
I was a little bit lost with the story for the cyberpunk world, but I really enjoyed working on the cyberkitties! I probably could have pushed my concepts further, but I’m personally really happy with what I ended up with! I’d love one of my own hehe.
