The first homework that we got was to study the shape and form of 3 different animated character (3 of our choosing), this task was great to discover how simply drawn many animated characters actually are, it gives a great insight in to the goings-on of the animation industry’s character design process. We had to screen shot 3 character and find their “anatomy”, pretty much just their construction lines.

I found this task strange at first as I hadn’t experimented with it before, but started to get more fluent with the process as I continued.

The 3 characters that I chose are;

Sully (Monsters inc.),

Zoidberg (Futurama),

Aogaeru (Spirited Away).

I decided to keep my construction lines red but overlay the clothes or fur with a blue linework, this lets me easily differentiate between the character and the clothing, i also decided to take 3 screenshots of my work, the first one shows the characters photo, with my red linework and my blue linework. The second shows the red linework and the blue linework, whilst the third shows just the red linework. I though this was a good idea as it isolated the most important parts of the character.

This task has made me want to experiment with more difficult character designs and angles, it was also very exciting as I had never thought of doing something like this before hand.

In conclusion, I feel very happy with the turnout especially as this was my first time trying it. I believe it could have been better and more detailed in some places but I do think that more detail would have been juxtaposing to the task.