Character Design Task 2

 

Park Hyoung Yoon (0325165)

Bachelor in Design (Honors) in Creative Media

Character Design

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Character Design Refinement

After feedback from lecturers, The character design had to be improved with more items or features that describes the character backgrounds and personalities. Based on the key features of Greek Goddess of water, Nourishing the Earth, Peaceful more features were added.

Game called 'Hades' were used as reference mostly as there were lots of illustrations of major Greek Gods and Goddesses and other major characters that has good designs.

Fashion shows with Greek and Rome theme were also used as reference for dress, belts and so on.

Dove and olive branch were used for the design to express her peacefulness.

Turnaround    

Face Study

As the face kept changing when new illustration of the character is drawn, the face style has to be chosen and set. Samdoesarts artworks were used to study and steal his style of  the proportion of the face, size of the eyes and how he stylised. 

Face Expression Sketches and Study

Pose Study

Pose variations were sketched, trying to figure out the pose that describes the character personality the best.

Sit down position were favored but it would hide characteristics of the dress forms water and other accessories on the legs, so figure 4 were chose to proceed with the final outcome.

Pose with Facial Expression

Colored Character Turnaround 

Color scheme of pastel tone were chose with atmosphere of blue hues to bring out the personality of Goddess of water.

Character Dress Variation Experiment

variation of neck accessories and laces were experimented but weren't used for the final outcome of the final concept.

Final Turnaround

Turnaround Dress Variation

Simple dress variation of how the character would be dressed during normal occasions. Wedding dress and Greek dresses were used as variations.

Task 2 Presentation slide