Character Design Compilation

Character Design Compilation


Week 1 - Week 14
Yap Wei Xuan ( 0338916 )
Character Design
Compilation

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LECTURE

The class start with a brief of the module information, then Ms Anis gave us a lecture of Concept World Design

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INTRODUCTION

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TASK 1
Week 1 - Week 4

First thing first, we need to come out ideas for our character, and we had to create mood board which include the character ability, class, personality and which era it comes from. Here is the 3 ideas:

Afterwards we need to comeout the details description of the character, the background story, her skill, outfits concept, weapons concept and so on. The description will be shown in the slides below at the end of this section.

Background story:

200 years ago, after the prince that are supported by the marquis (Mira's father) failed to kill the emperor (like the old story which prince want to be king,and trying to commence a war to kill the king), Mira's family was also annihilated. 

The killer who performed the murderous task saw the beautiful and lovely Mira, and had an evil idea. They raped and humiliated the girl and threw her somewhere in the tunnel. The poor girl fought with the mouse every day for food, until she hurt someone when she was begging at the side of the road. Due to, her being young and neurotic she was sent to the mental Hospital, however everything turned out worse than she could imagine. 

There she was severely beaten, persecuted, abused, and finally killed by a neuropathic patient and mutilated her body. The girl’s grievances were so powerful that she turned into a strong entity ghost. After she gains power, she decides to take revenge on the people in this world. Her revenge begins in the mental hospital. She likes to play games especially the game called hide-and-seek with the patients. If a patient is found, they will be killed. If you see her in the distance, please don’t look back, otherwise she will mutilate your body like what they did to her. 

Moreover, for some reason, she’s unable to get out of the hospital. Some people have seen her outside the hospital while keeping a distance. She was seen wearing clothes stained with blood and holding a strange rabbit doll in her hand. She walks around the hospital and people can vaguely heard her with her hoarse voice singing a Nursery rhyme called "Red Doll". And that’s the reason why people called her "THE RED"


After that we need to come out the silhouette of the character, here is my first try, but i did it wrongly, because i shoun't think of the inside details first, i should focus on the shape of it. Ms Anis required me to redraw and show her before end of the class.

Then here is my 10 silhouette:

Now we will move on the details of the silhouette, we can start drawing it:

Now we need to chose 5 from 10 which is most relatable with the character concept:

I ask opinions as which should i work on, and all my classmates including Ms Anis chose the 3rd one, so i work on that. Here is the 1st and 2nd attempt for my default outfits design:

Attempt 1

Attempt 2

Finally, the last step is to draw the TURNAROUND of the character. Before that, we need to decide how many "heads" high for our character, for mine, my character is 5.5 heads high.

Here is the TURNAROUND of my character:

The slides with the details descriptions and compilation of the works for Task 1:

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TASK 2
Week 5 - Week 9

Compare to task 1 , task 2 has more works to do. We need to come out 5 poses which include 2 relax pose, 2 attack pose and 1 ultimate pose. Facail expressions and the skin outfit design.

Here is the sketch of my first try, it seem some works but some doesn't. I face problems while finding for references as there were not much of child poses.

Therefore, i tried hard to make those poses become children's size and here's the outcomes:

Next, we were required to draw 2 more face expression for each poses. Ms Anis also mention that, my ultimate pose's facial expression can be crazier.

Here is the final outcomes:

Finally, my favorite part for Task 2, design a skin for our character!. I come out with 2 ideas which is:

The nun : showing the good side of THE RED, trying to represent her kindness that deep in her heart but without losing the evil vibe.

The Nurse: Still as the evil part of THE RED , but different way to revenge. Wearing nurse uniform to make her more innocent

I don't know which to choose, but Ms Anis help me. She chose the nun idea and she is curious of how can i represent the nun outfits that with evil vibe.

Here is the 1 st attempt that i did and it seem it is not working, i though we only need to draw 1 but actually we need to come out with 5 visual sketch.

I'm kinda disappointed on myself. Ms Anis told me to come out 5 sketch before the class end, Thank god that it is working , and get approved.

However, I'm not happy with it, i decide to combine 5 of them into 1, and here is the final design for my skin:

Here is the slides include the compilation of works and details description for Task 2:

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TASK 3
Week 10 - Week 13


For task 3, we need to draw the hero pose which is the ultimate pose and we were required to color it, as a complete artwork.

Here is my sketch for the hero pose. I showed Ms Anis, and she say that the facial expression can be more crazier.

Here is the colored one. Ms Anis said i did great and can continue work on it. The background can be dark and use gradient.

I change the background to black gradient, and i thought I'm finish, but actually i left the most important thing which is the lightning and shadowing. It looks really flat and the outline can be color with a dark color that match her. The background can change to others color as well.

I change the outline and the background and added the "explosion power" on her hands. Ms Anis said i can now make the feets more details, bu adding toes. 

Here is the final outcome of my hero pose:

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FINAL ART BIBLE
Week 14 - Week 15

For the final, we have to combine all our works into maximum 5 A2 size board and here is my final outcome: