This week we started with our session with Isobel Stenhouse to get feedback on this weeks work, I had already emailed by work to Isobel in advance of todays session so she could take a look at it. The day before our session, she responded to my email and gave me some insightful feedback on my designs.
This is a good start. You’ve used a good methodical approach, and the character of the different character, Santa and the Elf especially, are coming through, which is great. I think it’s fine to be sketchy at this stage, but I think it would be worth investing some time on volume and structure, and really thinking about the proportion of different shapes and body parts too. Doing some work on that will help improve the quality of the drawing. The best approach would be to see if you can find some good videos on that topic. Although it’s early days, it’s still good to imagine how the characters would look if turned around and how someone would model them in 3D if needed. Also think about do the characters have elbows, knees etc, as quite a few of these seem to have very straight limbs.
Isobel Stenhouse
During the session I got to see how everyone else’s projects were developing and its evident now how unique each of these projects are going to be. I had some technical issues when presenting my ideas, but Isobel elaborated on the feedback she emailed me which made it easier to understand the direction that she was coming from and it applied to everyone else as well. Going forwards I will consider the volume and 3D design of the characters to tailer it more to the game concepts of the brief. I also had some personal feedback in relation to the props to consider how to make them more unique or complex by incorporating the Christmas theme into the design.
So to start this week, I wanted to elaborate on my chosen character designs by exploring their volumes and their design from different angles.
I then started looking ahead at character outfit inspirations so that I can combine them with my character designs and pose them. I want to try and do something more original than the traditional costume designs and be more influenced by their roles and personalities. It was also good to start looking at colours, patterns and textures.