My Character Development

The visual appearance of my character is highly important as it needs to be reflective of everything the character is seen to symbolise but it also sets the style of the animation. I decided to choose how I would portray and depict my main character before making any other decisions on how the rest of my animation will be designed and made.

The imade below shows a 2D hand drawing that I have produced to see if this is a style or technique that I could use throughout my project. I have decided that this drawing is very basic and I do not have the skills to draw my entire animation. Therefore this will not be the style I will use for my project.

This next image was produced using the shape tool and brush tool on Adobe Illustrator. I think this character looks to young for my project as I plan for my main character to be around 15/16 years old. I do feel this technique worked quite well for creating a character however. 

The two images below were produced by rotoscoping over an image on Adobe Photoshop. I found this technique worked really well and I think both images are very aesthetically pleasing. As you can see with the second image I attempted to incorporate colour as well though I do not feel that this was very effective. As I have also just decided to do the represent the struggle between the real world and the virtual world I think this technique for my character looks the most lifelike. I also think that if I am going to be using real image photographs with only the character animated then black and white seems the most striking. Therefore I think it would be best to use rotoscoping on PhotoShop to create my character and to also keep it simple with just black and white so that she stands out more in the animation.