From the course: Learning Character Development and Design
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Motion
From the course: Learning Character Development and Design
Motion
- Imagining how you think your character might move if it were animated can help establish both authenticity and define personality. Creating gesture drawings from life and looking at the movie frame by frame to help you to study movement. If we look at some examples of animated characters, we can see how an illusion of movement in drawing informs the final designs. Carlos Grangel relied on both sketching from life and reviewing documentary films on his subject to create the main character for the DreamWorks Animation "Spirit". Notice that he starts with very loose gesture drawings to first capture the motion and action of a running horse, establishing basic proportions and the positions of legs, body, and head. His ink studies focus more directly on the actual proportions of a realistic horse, Though he's managed to use a dynamic line and wash technique to maintain the feeling of the horse in motion. His sketches reveal the character emerging as a personality while still maintaining…
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