character design

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What is Character Design? Character Design Definition: A Character Designer is an artist that creates new, original characters (sometimes shortened to “OCs”) for a purpose. It can be a character based on a definition from a story or script as would be the process in Feature Films, TV Series, Video Games, Children’s books, Web animation, Comic books, Comic strips, or even Licensing or Toy Design.

Purpose and Style of Character Design

Style comes into play dependent upon which format the character is needed for. The range of character design hierarchy can go from extremely graphic (like “Hello Kitty”) to very photo-realistic (as with CG animated characters like the “Hulk” in the Avengers film series). The basis of creating a character design is still first and foremost dependent on drawing ability. Weather it is with pencil and paper, or drawing digitally on a tablet or Wacom Cintiq (often called “Tradigital” art), computers or programs are not at the heart of this beginning phase of the process. The character designer must have a strong knowledge of all the drawing and design principles to create an appealing character that best fits the needs of the story at hand. Once approved, the concept artwork of the character can then go on to be modeled in the computer to create a 3D version that can then be used in video games or CG animation. In the larger studios, another person, not the character designer, creates the character modeling.

What Does a Character Designer Do?

What does a character designer do? As mentioned in the definition, the character designer is usually the first person on a production (film, video game, TV series, etc.) to begin visualizing the characters from descriptions given to them for a given story.