Character Sketches

To plan the production of our animation, we needed to conceptualise what we wanted our characters to look like. We began with a discussion about the characters themselves, including, their hair, clothes and height, after which, we each made an initial design for the main character. These designs would then allow us to combine the ideas into one, final concept for the character, which we could then change to our specification and requirements. The design would then give us a guideline to what our character should look like when we make it out of clay, the character sketch is simply a design that we follow late on in the production. Character sketches are a massive part of claymation production, for example, the popular characters wallace and gromit would have been sketched out thoroughly before they were actually made from clay. We also sketched the sets that we are going to make for the animation for exactly the same reasons. We were each delegated a scene to sketch, I chose to do the first scene, where we introduce the character to the animation, it is a basic park area, with trees and fields, with a betting shop in the right hand corner.