This week in Advanced Game Art and Design, we spent a lot of time working on designing original characters for a comic strip of our own design. I saw a lot of people jump right in and start designing original characters. Most of them were very creative, and had personified an everyday object, such as an alarm clock, a stop sign, ect. I believe that having human characters has certain elements that no other character can have, such as being relate-able. Drawing a cartoon character was very difficult for some of the more skilled artists in the class, as it requires that you infer a large amount of emotion in a small amount of detail. I have found this task difficult, as it also requires a certain amount of consistency, which I can not achieve in my pencil and paper drawings. As a result, most of my characters have different proportions in each picture, or have been drawn with a ruler to make very geometric shapes (or in some cases, both).
In the end, cartoon characters require a few things:
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