In our first week of character design, we were introduced to Justin who will be teaching us during the workshops. This is an exciting prospect as he's work for the likes of Disney and i'm really looking forward to learning a lot of techniques and skills for character design. Alan introduced us to the brief and afterward Justin introduced himself, we saw a video giving examples of heroes, villains and sidekicks, mainly from Disney but some other companies were added in as well. In villains we had strong powrful characters like Jafar from Aladdin and Ursula from The Little Mermaid who are strong examples of famous cartoon villains. In the heroes section we had a few princes who are well-known examples of heroes from Disney's fairytale adaptations. We also had Shang-Li from Mulan who has a very different design, he's more powerful and broader in design, showing a lot of muscle. With sidekicks, we had the likes of ...
After watching some great examples of character design in each section, we discussed the conventions or commonalities found in each section ie shape, colour etc. We were then drawn two traditional playing cards each to randomise two different words, similar to our brief. Combining these words together we were asked to do drawings on an A3 page representing how we'd draw this character. I got 50 foot Elvis as my randomised character and i started off by drawing tyhe stereotypical things i'd associate with the character. The main problem i had was showing that he was 50 foot. Justin explained that i would have to use perspective to show that he was so tall. Even afterwards, i was still struggling with getting the perspective right so Justin showed me that by making the perspective seem as though we were looking up at the character, implied he was so tall. He done this by using a triangular shaped body, starting with a wide stance at the feet, going to a point at the head. after this i had no problems getting the perspective right and i was able to take the elements from the images i had previously drawn to create a '50 foot Elvis' design. In my final design I had a small microphone to further imply his height and i also added ripped clothes as though he had grown, similar to the Hulk. I would have like to use some stereotypical Elvis poses to further emphasise the character, but overall i was really happy with my first week as i thought it would be something i would really struggle on and therefore not enjoy as much as i did. I'm really looking forward to the next workshop and building a portfolio/bible documenting the development of my character designs.
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