The impartial animation movie maker who’s doing the whole lot himself will generally design a personality in the course of the storyboarding course of. In such a case, it’s equally okay to be a bit careless about particulars and accuracy, as a result of the character design remains to be fluid.
By the point actual animation begins, nonetheless, it’s nicely to have a mannequin sheet made up. I’ve a superb instance of that right here.
I’ve various quick scenes that includes these two characters, and I intend to animate all of the scenes as a gaggle. It is a good option to reduce a bent to maintain on designing because the work goes alongside; if I had been to do one scene within the group now and one other six months later, there could be a probability that I might need bother getting the character to look the identical.
| Determine 1 |
Determine 1 exhibits a collage of storyboard photographs of the 2 characters I’m calling Ben and Bev. They’re female and male safety personnel on the airport, in command of shifting folks by way of the bags X-ray course of. Right here, Ben’s photographs are extra constant than these of Bev, whose hair type retains altering by way of the sequence’s storyboard.
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| Determine 2 |
In Determine 2, I’ve retraced all the photographs from Determine 1, plus many extra from a second sheet, working to make constant all the main points and proportions as I drew. The result’s a mannequin sheet that may positively assist me to maintain these characters in line for all of their scenes.
