Project 1: Illustration and Animation

Walk Cycle


These were drawn in Illustrator. The key aspects of walk cycle was bending and arranging body parts in specific areas. It was very difficult to adjust its legs and arms in each movement since some of the parts were morphed and needed to be redrawn.

Project 1: Illustration and Animation

I was not sure how I would approach my character showing in different angles. Even though slight angled view would give more emotion or expression, I chose to approach it as fully side on view. Colours were experimented on the character to see different qualities.


Research


After doing more research in style wise, I decided to take out the vector outlines to give crisp and clean appearance. Also little details were added to distinguish from one part to another.

Final

Project 1: Illustration and Animation

I did initial sketches of walk cycle, trying to figure out how the character would move from point A to point B. Since my character is fat and has short legs, it would have to turn its hip in order to move its legs.

Walk Cycle Sketch

Project 1: Illustration and Animation

These are initial sketches of half Taurus and half human. They have similarities of featuring human body and Taurus head. Main feature of a Taurus to me was its head so I incorporated with human body.

Sketch 1


Sketch 2


Sketch 3



My final sketch is combination of bits and pieces of previous sketches. The head itself is a skull like a skull of a dead bull. Body of the character is proportion to a dwarf or short person with short legs. It uses its long arms to punch things or damage. Its characteristic would be similar to a typical fat child who bullies at school and is always looking for trouble. In terms of movements, it will jump, walk left, right and punch.

Project 1: Illustration and Animation

I decided to change my idea after playing game of Warcraft 3 where it featured a character which was half Taurus and half ogre. The character was portrayed as a warrior because of the giant hammer to destroy enemies and shape of the body. Since this paper is about creating a character using flash, I wanted something simple, cartoon looking and small.

I looked at different images to get some inspirations of the style and how I would approach on designing my character. They are simple but expressive through minor details.

Project 1: Illustration and Animation

My original idea of character design was half human and half lion.