Week 1-Making: Model Sheet & Character Design

Now comes putting my learnings into practice, and the first thing to do was design a character to animate. This week, I began by sketching ideas of anatomy, following what I’d learned in regards to that, and following it. My ideas were a “Rambo”-esque soldier, a Ninja, and a robot.

Then I expanded these, and chose the Ninja. This would allow for a fluent final animation set showing knowledge of anatomy, mass and weight, with the benefit of being fun to animate and a challenge in bone-based. Whereas the other two characters felt more rigid, and easier to animate.