Character deisgn

Character design was one heck of a course! we were given a skeleton story which we had to flesh out using characters based on a car which we sketched out even before we knew the skeleton story.

So it's basically something like, we sketched out a car based on a few property constraints, after which we were provided with a story where we had to fit in events and characters in accordance to our car. Here our protagonist was the inventor of the car, a supportive friend on the side and a somewhat grim reaper-esque villain

A few sketches and models

My protagonist

Friend of the protagonist

The villain, death bringer basically

A few sketches tracing my journey till i reached my final characters

Character design from Aakanksha Mittra on Vimeo.

Walk cycle for my protagonist

Character design 1 from Aakanksha Mittra on Vimeo.

Walk cycle for my villain

I mostly used a colour pencil to rough out my characters and then used a brush pen to see what all i could come up with. The skeleton story was such that it could be twisted into the most personalized stories. Making my characters go through the story was a great experience, i had to plan all the things they'd do and the way they would react to different situations
A very enriching experience for sure!

Thanks for looking!