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Character Design

Cartooning

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Jamboard Braintorming

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Students will explore stories and create their own inspired character.

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Options:

Character Design Page

Comic Book/strip

Animation

Character + Background

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Steps to Get There!

  1. Brainstorming
  2. Drawing using Shapes
  3. Proportions
  4. Gesture Drawing
  5. Emotion
  6. Line Weight/Value Review
  7. Color/Color Scheme Review

Optional: Animation Essentials, Landscape

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Drawing using Shapes

-Go through the beginning of the Drawing Presentation

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Character Design with SHAPE

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https://dw-wp.com/2013/01/teaching-comics-to-teens-week-2-day-4-basic-character-design/

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Proportion

And

Features

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A good cartoonist is one who can extract the main details of an object or a human being and represent them with simple shapes.

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Do these two images represent the same object?

Most people can't tell from memory all the details that make up a car, a dog, or even a child. So they start to associate very basic and primitive shapes to the specific characteristics of each object.

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It all begins with a shape…

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Then we need a vertical and horizontal line intersecting that shape.

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Eyes

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NOSES

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Mouths

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Ears

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Angles

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Side View

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Hair

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Hands

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Feet

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Gesture

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Character Poses Follow Along

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Main Character

hero, clutz, nerd, shy, boastful, popular, cute, brave, funny

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Character Types

animals, babies, teenagers, elderly, teachers, athletes, aliens

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Emotion

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Background

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OTHER

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Final Project Design

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Character Design Page

-Minimum of 5 Views/Gestures/Emotions etc.

-Full Body

-Full Color/Value

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Professional Examples

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Student Examples

If not in color you need to add FULL VALUE or LINE VARIATION/CONTRAST in sharpie!

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Character Painting w/ Background

-Full Value/Color

-Entire Page Used

-Careful Drawing

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Professional Examples

Juan Diego Leon

Wouter Bruneel

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Student Examples

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Comics

-Tells a story

-Includes a title

-8 Panel Minimum

-Can be done in pencil, but needs to appear fleshed out and not rushed!

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Professional Examples

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Student Examples

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Comic Book Cover

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Student Examples

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Animation

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